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Original Post Date: 2002-07-08 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 7/8/2002 3:46:14 PM
Zim may run out of beer as maize shortage bites
Harare – Beer drinkers in Zimbabwe turned gloomy Thursday after one of the country’s largest breweries said there could be shortages of the drink in coming weeks due to the unavailability of a key ingredient: maize. Zimbabwe is facing a critical shortage of maize, which is also the staple food, and other cereals this year due to a crippling drought which has left an estimated 7.8 million people in the southern African country facing starvation. Chibuku Breweries chief executive Pearson Gowero said the company had resorted to importing its own maize requirements from South Africa after a state-owned grain procurement agency, the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), reduced supplies to the brewery to a trickle in order to concentrate on feeding people.
But he said critical shortages of foreign currency in the country had also limited Chibuku Breweries’ own maize imports, leading to fears of a beer shortage. “In order to sustain our operations, we have been directly importing maize, principally from South Africa. This has taken cognisance of the GMB’s primary focus of feeding the nation and has therefore meant that all allocations cannot meet our full requirements,” he said. Beer will become the latest in a string of commodities, including sugar, salt, cooking oil, soap and bread to disappear from shop shelves in the country as it grapples with the worst economic crisis it has ever faced.
Source: PANA
Published:Sat 6-Jul-2002
URL: http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID…br>