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Original Post Date: 2007-10-05 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Can you flipping believe this? Jan]
Harare – More than 23 000 people have been arrested in Zimbabwe for flouting controversial price controls imposed by President Robert Mugabe’s government three months ago, police announced in Harare on Thursday.
Under Operation Reduce Prices, launched in late June, price inspectors accompanied by police were sent around the country to enforce price cuts by around 50 percent on most goods and services.
“As Operation Reduce Prices continues we have so far as police arrested 23 585 people,” police spokesperson Oliver Mandipaka told state radio.
Most of those arrested have been fined or ordered to perform menial labour such as cleaning government schools, police stations or courthouses.
The crackdown against the business sector, which at first proved popular with inflation-weary consumers, has since backfired as there are now chronic shortages of basics like meat, milk and bread on the formal market.
The black market in scarce goods has proliferated, with prices much higher than the ones set by the government.
Mandipaka said police were concerned that millers in the country were diverting maize grain used to make the staple maize meal – to the illegal market.
The price of maize meal, like many other commodities is strictly controlled.
Some firms were turning maize into a popular local snack called “maputi”, which is similar to popcorn, to supply the more lucrative export market, Mandipaka said.
If such unscrupulous practices are detected they (the millers) risk prosecution, he said. – Sapa-dpa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20071004224004946C879665