Shortages show the poverty of ideas in govt

THE shortage of most locally-manufactured basic commodities due to the shocking decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to impose a blanket ban on bank lending to everyone, including the manufacturing sector, exposes the incompetence that permeates the corridors of power.

Zimbabwe is currently experiencing a sharp increase in prices for basic commodities, especially cooking oil and mealie-meal which are fast disappearing from shop shelves.

Wholesalers at the weekend were selling a case of (12) two-litre cooking oil bottles for US$80, an increase from US$53 just a fortnight ago.

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