Bread price hike exposes govt rot

IN the past year, Zimbabweans have been treated to sustained State propaganda to the effect that the economy is on the recovery path.

But currency volatilities have continued unabated and the annual inflation rate, while declining, has remained at unsustainably high levels.

Even as currency shortages escalated, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and the Finance ministry maintained their misleading position that the country was slowly coming out of the woods.

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