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Original Post Date: 2008-01-08 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: The BeardedMan
Howzit
The National Incomes and Pricing Commission (NIPC) set up after Mugabe’s controversial programme of price slashes in July has finished compiling a list of manufacturers, shop owners and service providers who have been circumventing gazetted prices and has handed over their names to the police for prosecution, said the official Herald daily.
The Herald said recent weeks had seen a repeat of the price madness that prompted the authorities to impose price slashes last year.“
Of course The Herald is going to report this as they are State-sponsored – but even they put up their prices without the correct clearance when the order was initiated about 5 months ago.
The fact that the NIPC is chaired by a disgraced lawyer should give you a feel for the manner in which the blitz will be handled.
“Prices have shot up in recent weeks on the back of skyrocketing inflation now rumoured to have topped 24,000 per cent and rampant cash shortages. A single chicken was this weekend selling for more than 25 million Zimbabwe dollars, more than a teacher’s average monthly salary.
“We are aware of some manufacturers and service providers who are contravening the pricing regulations. So the commission has listed them and has since provided police with the information for them to take action,” NIPC chairman Godwills Masimirembwa said.
“We have held meetings with some of the manufacturers, shop owners and service providers and we asked them to stick to the stipulated prices but some have decided not to, obviously prompting us to act accordingly,” he added.“
This is the point that I make. The NIPC has not had a ‘meeting’ in the true sense of the word. What has happened is that shop owners, managers and providers were ordered to attend a meeting where they were threatened. This is typical ZANU PF. They rule by threat and violence.
Any shop flouting the regulations, which do not take into account the cost of the item to be sold, or the overheads of the stock, will find their management and owners in court and the business could be shut down – or worse, taken over by ZANU PF.
I do note that price increases for commodities that are sold or supplied by State-owned companies were rushed through, thereby ensuring that the ZANU PF loyalists were able to continue with their overcharging and market monopoly.
“In a separate editorial the Herald said life had become unbearable for many Zimbabweans because of the rising cost of goods.
Skyrocketing prices have left many Zimbabweans hopeless, not knowing where their next meal would come from, despite availability of commodities in supermarkets, said the Herald, urging police to swiftly prosecute errant shop owners.
“We do not want the list to become one of those that are compiled just to fill up office drawers, without taking deterrent action against the offenders,” said the paper.
Manufacturers and storekeepers say they have no choice but to hike prices, given the rapid fall of the local dollar against major international currencies.“
See how the paper has written their statement as though they have a part to play in the blitz? It is more than obviously who is in the pay of ZANU PF..
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“Mozambique's Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) power utility has suspended supplies to Zimbabwe over unpaid debt, adding more woes to a country in deep recession and grappling with shortages of hard cash, food and every essential commodity.
Sources at state-owned Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority Holdings (ZESA Holdings) told ZimOnline that HCB switched off supplies to Zimbabwe at the beginning of this month after ZESA Holdings failed to clear an outstanding US$26 million debt that was due last December.“
Now – as seen when other bills become due – even though the ruling party and the government are broke, this bill will be settled within a week or two.
How? Gideon Gono and his trusty printing press – that’s how. He will be ordered to print trillions of dollars worth of useless bearer cheques which will then be released into the black market and exchanged for forex, which will be used to service the debt.
Meanwhile, Mugabe’s and Gono’s snitches will be about and once the money has changed hands in the black market, the illegal dealer will be set upon, arrested – and the money will come back to government whilst the forex is off to pay the bills – and the dealer is charged in criminal court.
It’s an easy game, is African politics…
“ZESA Holdings' chief executive officer Ben Rafemoyo confirmed the termination of supplies but insisted his company was in negotiations with the Mozambican energy firm to resume supplies to Zimbabwe.
“We are trying to catch up with the ballooning debt. They (HCB) are insisting that we clear what we owe them.“
So, will the last person to leave Zimbabwe, just close the door, because there is no light to turn off…
You may remember that not so long ago I queried how it was that no one had been brought to book for the numerous murders of commercial farmers, farm workers and political activists. This, I said then, was indicative of the forgiving attitude of Mugabe and his government.
Forgiving, in so far as the killing was carried out ‘in their name’ and therefore would not be classified as a ‘normal’ murder.
The two, Albert Ncube and Robert Nyathi, are expected to answer to charges of killing Elizabeth Gloria Olds in cold blood at her farm in Nyamandlovu in March 2001 in a wave of violent farm seizures that hit the country during the period.
“The article attempts to explain the seven year delay… which no doubt are all State organised. It is the family that I feel sorry for, as you will no doubt remember that about a year before Mrs Olds’ death, her son Martin was brutally shot dead by invaders on his farm.
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I include this photograph, not to sensationalise the murder, but to remind us all the brutality of Mugabe’s rule, the real danger that ZANU PF represents.
“Three prosecutors who had been assigned to handle the case failed to do so after all quit the Attorney General's office for various reasons.
Key witnesses have also failed to turn up for the case amid fears that the state was not keen to proceed with the trial of the war veterans who had President Robert Mugabe's explicit permission to carry out the violent farm seizures.
At least a dozen white commercial farmers died at the hands of ruling ZANU PF thugs and war veterans during the bloody farm seizures that Mugabe said were necessary to correct historical imbalances in land allocation.“
At the end of Eric Harrison’s book, “Jambanja“, he lists the farmers killed in the land grab. Just how many of those farmers’ families will see justice for their deaths? What of the farm workers that have lost their lives? Or the political activists that have been slain?
STEVENS, David – 15th April 2000
OLDS, Martin – 18th April 2000
DUNN, Allan Stewart – 7th May 2000
ELSWORTH, Henry Swan- 7th May 2000
WEEKS, John – 14th May 2000
OATES, Tony – 31st May 2000
BOTHA, William – 23rd July 2000
OLDS, Gloria – 4th March 2001
COBBET, Robert Fenwick – 6th August 2001
FORD, Terrance Fenwick – 18th March 2002
BAYLEY, Thomas Samson – 1st May 2002
ANDERSON, Charles – 2nd June 2002
SIVERTON, Pieter – January 2004
SUNDE, Ole – 6th February 2005
STEWART, Donald – 26th November 2005
TENANT, Phillip – 1st April 2006
To give you an idea of the closeness of the Zimbabwean community, three of these farmers were friends of mine…
“The 72-year Olds was ambushed at the gates of her Silver Streams Farm in Nyamandlovu and her body was later found in a pool of blood riddled with 15 bullet wounds from an AK 47 assault rifle.
Nyathi and Ncube have however pleaded not guilty to the murder charge leveled against them. Bulawayo High Court Judge Maphios Cheda is expected to preside over the case, according to a list of pending court cases released by the High Court this week.“
Apart from insisting that the elections this year will be held in March, not June as wanted by the opposition, Mugabe has ruled out voting by Zimbabweans living in the diaspora.
So a separate body has began lobbying for those Zimbabweans living outside the country to return home to place their vote.
Obviously, one would have to look at the voters’ roll to be sure that such a trip would be worthwhile, but I fear that the voters’ roll is not as open to public as the ruling party would have us believe.
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CZC) says it is important for millions of Zimbabwean exiles living outside the country's borders, particularly in South Africa, to come home and cast their vote during the elections.
CZC is a coalition of human and civic rights groups, churches, women's groups, labour and student movements that are campaigning for a peaceful and democratic settlement of Zimbabwe's eight-year political crisis.“
I would love to know if my name appears on the roll – although, in all the years I lived in Zimbabwe, I chose not to vote – largely driven by my early learning in the ZRP where I was taught to be apolitical…
“At least three million Zimbabweans, a quarter of the country's 12 million population, are said to be living outside the country, the majority of them in South Africa, after fleeing economic hardship and political repression at home.
The majority of the exiled Zimbabweans are still eligible to vote in the election that analysts says Mugabe could lose because of an unprecedented economic recession described by the World Bank as unprecedented for a country not at war.
Mafume said it would be an injustice to deny the millions of Zimbabweans living in neighbouring countries the chance to vote in the election and decide their fate.“
I would love to be able to vote in the elections – secure in the knowledge that my vote, at least, would cancel out Mugabe’s vote…
I have stated for some time that Gono is a veritable flea in Mugabe’s fur. He has a lot of information at his finger tips that could be enough to bring down Mugabe’s house of cards. But rather than doing the right thing – which could, quite easily, result in Gono’s demise or disappearance – the feeling is that Gono will be rewarded by Mugabe by being given a political post worthy of his threat to Mugabe and the ruling party.
Records of such a distinguished financial, monetary or economics fundi appearing at the conference of a ruling party are readily available, even going back to 1924, when Southern Rhodesia was granted self-governing status by the British government.
In that respect, then, Gono was blazing a trail of sorts. To many political analysts of the stormy, unpredictable but basically unstable political climate in Zimbabwe, this was an extraordinary development.
It heightened speculation that President Robert Mugabe had indeed earmarked Gono, in whom he has reposed extraordinary trust, for something “big” politically.“
Mugabe has a habit of surrounding himself with those that have not only proved their loyalty, but also with those who have put themselves in harm’s way to protect the President and the party. Gono, no doubt, fits that criteria.
Indeed, Gono’s dealing with the financial problems in Zimbabwe have proved more harmful than anything else, he has scant or little regard for the Minister of Finance and would appear to have Mugabe’s ear, without having to run a gaunlet of front men.
“Yet as he came closer and closer to Mugabe as his adviser, it was inevitable he would be sucked in to ZANU PF politics, which invariably revolve around loyalty to Mugabe.
There was a time when many political pundits, absorbing this special bond between the two, speculated on the possibility of Gono being roped into Mugabe's cabinet as prime minister, a new post he was expected to create to ease his way into retirement.“
Of course, the one thing that will prove the point will be what Mugabe decides to do… Which we know from history, is prone to be phlegmatic, matter-of-fact, unannounced and unwelcome – and universally accepted by his party…
Take care.
‘debvhu
Source: http://thebeardedman.blogspot.com/2008/01/tuesday-8th-january-2008.html