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‘I tell my children not to play so we save money on soap’

eriinfo.com8 months ago012 mins

Priya Sippy & Anne Okumu BBC News, London & Lilongwe Jack McBrams A chunk of Suzanna Kathumba’s meagre salary goes on school fees, leaving little for other essentials Suzanna Kathumba, a domestic worker in Malawi, spends every day thinking of ways she can economise to make her salary of 80,000 kwacha ($46; £34) a month…

Public money, private plans: MPs demand Post Office transparency

eriinfo.com8 months ago09 mins

Tensions reached boiling point in a Wednesday meeting of parliament’s select committee on economic development & trade after Post Office business rescue practitioners Anoosh Rooplal and Juanita Damons requested that parts of their presentation on their plan to save the ailing state-owned company be held in private, away from the media. MPs across the political…