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Gloves off all-round for 2018: Part Two…strings being pulled to further an agenda

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HERE in Harare, prices have been going up steadily, reaching alarming levels in the last weeks. Prices of groceries have gone up, edging ordinary Zimbabwean out, smartly screening them out.
In the last month, eggs have gone up from about US$5 to US$7,50 a crate.
At the Greendale Food Lovers last week, most price tags on products had been peeled off.
People got a rude awakening at the tills, the ‘normal’ bill would have multiplied four or five times.
A six-pack of eggs was going for US$2,29 bringing the price of a crate to US$11,45.
LP gas has gone up from US$1,50/kg, to as much as US$2,50/kg in some places, making it difficult for the ordinary person to fall back on gas when electricity is unavailable or in places where there is no electricity at all.
Chickens are being priced out of range for ordinary people with tiny birds going for US$7 or US$8.
Beef, lamb and goat meat are impossibly priced with the meat changing colour in the freezers.
The price of a litre of milk has gone up to US$1,30 and US$1,50 from US$1,15.
You can forego the eggs, but the children should have milk.
Now that these goods are found in our land, who must consume them if not us?
Who says these must be exclusive to a certain class?
Exclusivity was only found in Rhodesia, not now.
I was in one of the ‘fancy’ supermarkets when the lady ahead of me complained about the price of her groceries.
The cashier, a young male in his late teens or early 20s, smiled mischievously saying: “Vhotai, pamwe zvinochinja.”
It is so apparent what is going on, and the ‘gospel’ is being spread faithfully wherever you go; mukombi, papi nepapi.
In the kombi, an elderly man brings out a bag of coins to pay the driver.
“Oh isn’t this terrible” moans a woman sitting next to him, “a-ah ndiyo Zimbabwe yacho,” she sighs in exasperation.
You get a bag of coins: “Yowee-e ndiyo Zimbabwe yacho,” but people are so comfortable packing themselves like sardines into the ‘boot’ of a tiny mushikashika. No-one thinks there is anything amiss in this predatory behaviour of mishikashika owners nor in their own irresponsible behaviour in patronising such and putting their own lives in danger.
But in all fairness, there are others, even in Harare, who assist you patiently as you count your coins to make a purchase and tell you: “This is our money. All people have their money and this is ours.”
Back to the supermarkets, it is not just the very basic foodstuffs that have been hiked, fruit juices as well as fruits, with a packet of grapes in some supermarkets going up from US$1,50 to US$7.
Wines, local and imported, have gone up, with some doubling up.
Electrical goods keep going up.
‘Muchabvuma chete kuti zvinonaka ndezvavarungu, kana kuti muchandogara kuSouth Africa kwacho kana muchizvidavo.’
You don’t have to read between the lines to get this message, it glares at you… unequivocally.
Local and imported goods are forcing the ordinary Zimbabweans to ‘scream’ and we all know who they are meant to scream at.
We are vulnerable because we do not control production of essential goods and services.
As it is, those who own and control the means of production pull the strings; and are pulling the strings to further their goals of regime change.
They want, in place, a Government that does not threaten the domination of white monopoly and capital from the West; a Government that will co-operate with the West to loot the nation’s wealth and the labour of its people.
Those who do not wish to provide services to all Zimbabweans can close shop; they do not have an eternal licence to torment the citizens of this land.
Zimbabwe ndeyedu uye ndeyeropa. Mumwe nomumwe ngaazive kwake, muno ndemedu. Kudzoka neRhodesia nerweseri hatizvidi. Tsoro yacho tinoiona, tinoinzwisisa.
It’s gloves off all-round for 2018.
Thank God for the success of Command Agriculture of the last season for no-one controls whether we eat sadza or not, that is squarely in our power and we are set to secure the meat issue too.
The struggle continues… Aluta continua!

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