{"id":47284,"date":"2017-05-29T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T07:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=47284"},"modified":"2017-05-29T09:27:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T07:27:25","slug":"old-mutual-pumps-k4-million-into-malawi-defence-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/05\/29\/old-mutual-pumps-k4-million-into-malawi-defence-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Mutual pumps K4 million into Malawi Defence Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Mutual Life Assurance Limited has pumped K4 million into this year\u2019s Malawi Defence Force (MDF) Inter-Unit Sports Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The games will be held at the end of this month at Malawi Armed Forces College (Mafco) in Salima.<\/p>\n<p>Old Mutual Life Assurance Managing Director, Tavona Biza, said the company believes in responsible business as one of their values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, when we got a request from the Malawi Defence Force, it was an opportunity for us to be relevant to the community we operate in. Some of the products we are introducing are targeting all sectors of the community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, we have normal pension products with respect to individuals. We have recently developed two products\u2014 savings product and funeral product\u2014which are affordable to the majority of Malawians,\u201d Biza said.<\/p>\n<p>MDF representative, John Kaputa, said they were delighted with the timely donation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur budget was quite huge. Old Mutual has given us money that will benefit the athletes themselves. Their package will specifically go towards prizes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Mutual Life Assurance Limited has pumped K4 million into this year\u2019s Malawi Defence Force (MDF) Inter-Unit Sports Festival. The games will be held at the end of this month at Malawi Armed Forces College (Mafco) in Salima. Old Mutual Life Assurance Managing Director, Tavona Biza, said the company believes in responsible business as one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47289,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47284\/revisions\/47289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}