{"id":80585,"date":"2019-07-16T03:51:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T01:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=80585"},"modified":"2019-07-16T03:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T01:51:52","slug":"do-not-disrupt-businesses-cama-tells-demonstrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/07\/16\/do-not-disrupt-businesses-cama-tells-demonstrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Do not disrupt businesses, Cama tells demonstrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Chimwemwe Mangazi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consumers Association of Malawi has implored organisers of demonstrations to put in place measures that will ensure minimal disruption to business and consumer freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>During a press briefing held at its offices in Limbe Monday, the association\u2019s executive director, John Kapito, suggested that organisers should use routes that do not have a lot of businesses.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cConsumers and traders who are being inconvenienced have different political affiliations that require to be respected for peaceful co-existence. Loses arising out of demonstrations affect the business community at all levels, from manufacturing to small scale vendors and workers,\u201d<\/em> Kapito said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chairperson of the Economic Empowerment Action Group, Lewis Chiwalo, who was present at the briefing, said businesses were negatively affected by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/demonstrations-turn-ugly\/\">demonstrations<\/a>; hence, the need to consider the interests of business persons so that economic development goals could not be disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>Some Malawians, led by the civil society organisations, have been agitating for Malawi Electoral Commission Chairperson Justice Jane Ansah\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chimwemwe Mangazi: Consumers Association of Malawi has implored organisers of demonstrations to put in place measures that will ensure minimal disruption to business and consumer freedoms. During a press briefing held at its offices in Limbe Monday, the association\u2019s executive director, John Kapito, suggested that organisers should use routes that do not have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":80589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80585","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\/80585","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=80585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80590,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80585\/revisions\/80590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}