The price of jam (and what’s not for sale)
To put this in context, the Zimbabwean government recently gazetted the minimum wage for domestic workers to be Z$120,000 a month. So, to afford one of these tins of very ordinary jam, the domestic worker would have to save every cent of over four months worth of wages.
This is what Mugabe’s price controls have done to Zimbabwe’s shops, even the most major supermarkets! Nothing to buy.
September 28th, 2007 02:38
@the spike:
huh?
Bush and Blair (sic) have imposed sanctions on Mugabe, many high ranking ZANU-PF operatives, imposed travel restrictions on same, frozen bank and other financial accounts held by Mugabe, ZANU-PF, etc… in banks and other institutions under their respective governments jurisdictions…., but I believe that 99.9% of the news coming from within and outside of Zimbabwe would lay 100% of the responsibility for the inflation, food shortages, police brutality, refusal to register non-card carrying ZANU-PF’ers to vote, unemployment, people fleeing the country, etc… directly on Gono, Mugabe, and the hundreds (?thousands?) of ZANU-PF cronies and military leaders. If Bush and Blair are guilty of anything (& I think they are) it is of not screaming at the top of their lungs to garner the attention of the rest of the world in order to either bring even further pressure on M & regime, or calling for direct intervention to topple the regime and restore Zimbabwe to her past glory, beauty and place as breadbasket of southern Africa.
September 28th, 2007 16:08
Bush and Blair?
They’re not the ones that put in the price controls, friend.
October 1st, 2007 03:21
That’s crazy! I like jam, but not at that price, no wonder you want rid of Mugabe. I don’t think you can blame another Government for this catastrophe.
Please drop by my site, I’m missing a Zimbabwean flag
September 27th, 2007 14:38
The crimes of Bush and Blair…
Sokwanele has some stark pictures of the wages of price controls. Look what you’ve done, Bush and Blair!
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