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Night raids "planned for Zimbabwe businesses, bus services"
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 03 - 08 - 2007

Police in eastern Zimbabwe will soon
launch night raids on businesses and bus companies trying to
circumvent price controls by operating only in the dark, press
reports said Friday, according to dpa.
Police spokesman for Manicaland province, Brian Makomeke warned
that anyone trying to dodge President Robert Mugabe's highly-
controversial price slash would be punished, reported the state-
controlled Manica Post newspaper.
"Every gap should be closed and the police shall extend night
price monitoring patrols well into the night in order to curb these
illegal transactions," said the spokesman.
Shortages of basics have been worsening since 83-year-old Mugabe
ordered prices be slashed by at least 50 percent early last month.
The opposition says the price blitz was a political gimmick meant
to buy the support of Zimbabweans struggling under record inflation
levels ahead of next years polls.
"Desperate businesspeople say they can't afford to operate at a
loss. Some are now opening their doors only after 5 pm when police
and price inspectors knock off for the day," said the Manica Post,
which, like the Herald daily, is tightly controlled by the
authorities.
"Butchers are offering scarce meat in the moonlight," the paper
said.
"Buses are plying their routes mainly at night, charging between
600,000 and 800,000 Zimbabwe dollars (40 and 53 US at the official
rate of exchange) for a trip between the border city of Mutare and
the capital Harare," the paper said.
The government says the fare must be less than half that at
265,000 dollars.
"Road blocks will be extended to ensure that no operator charges
ungazetted fares," police spokesman Makomeke warned.
In a bizarre twist, the Manica Post also carried claims that
queues seen in many supermarkets these days - usually for scarce
commodities like bread - were artificially-created and meant to
tarnish Zimbabwe's image.
"The queues at some shops are suspicious. Some of these people are
just a rented crowd," an unnamed source told the paper.


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