7,600 businessmen arrested

since we started the operation and 601 have been convicted by magistrate’s courts,” police spokesperson Oliver Mandipaka said.
“The majority of them were released after paying admission of guilt fines while some cases are pending before the courts,” he added.
Mugabe said the government would not relent on the six-week-old blitz.
“Some are resisting saying they will not supply goods and services, but we say you will,” the state-run Herald newspaper quoted Mugabe as telling Zimbabwean students in Langkawi, Malaysia, where he is attending the Langkawi International Dialogue.
Retailers and manufacturers, grappling to cope with an inflation rate now believed to be well over 5 000 percent, had been raising their prices several times a day.
Manufacturers have said the government-imposed prices mean they are unable to cover their costs and stores are fast running out of supplies, while the black market is booming. – Allan Muzhingi