whole national economy is now in the intensive care and extremely unstable.
On Sunday 8 July, the sickening ZBC showed footage of the destruction of one ARDA farm in the Lowveld, and the pictures were depressing. There were heaps and heaps of drying cane sugar left on the ground while the nation is struggling to obtain sugar. The level of incompetence of the ARDA management is entirely inexplicable.
Now jambanja seems to have been visited upon the commercial sector of the economy as the demonic Mugabe regime desperately tries to control the nation’s enemy number one, inflation, now estimated to be well above 20 000% and soaring.
The Mugabe government’s directive that all prices of goods and services be restricted to the June 18 levels caused pandemonium in most supermarkets across the nation as poorly paid people bought everything in sight at the reduced prices. Zanu (PF) hoodlums were full of praise for the ruining party, which they claimed had the people’s interests at heart. The myopic nature of the regime’s policy-makers befuddles the mind.
Less than two weeks after the supermarket jambanja there is hardly anything in the shops for anyone to buy. Some supermarkets have literally closed down and dismissed their workers. Wholesalers across the nation report that they are struggling to sell their goods since most retailers that had placed orders with them subsequently cancelled them following the jambanja.
Manufacturers of most of the affected products have ceased operations, rightly arguing that they cannot afford to manufacture the requisite products at a higher cost than they can sell them. For some strange reason, the moronic rulers of this country are unable to comprehend this logic. It is obvious that the Mugabe regime is fully aware that if it allows the rate of inflation to continue on its merry upward way, it will be so high by the time the 2008 elections are held that no one in their right mind will bother to vote for the ruining party.
In other words, the current supermarket jambanja is a futile attempt to rig the rate of inflation. What is most interesting, however, is that now all of us cannot get any of the basic products that we used to purchase from supermarkets.
It will be interesting to find out whether the people of Zimbabwe will vote for a political party that has effectively destroyed our normal way of life. No attempt has been made to address the real reason why the prices of all commodities have escalated beyond affordability.
We all know that the main reason for this is the selfish continued stranglehold on political power by Robert Mugabe and his stinking party, Zanu (PF). We all know that the prices of goods and services cannot be dictated by a bankrupt regime, which is hell bent on destroying everything that might benefit a Zimbabwean. We have experienced this phenomenon over and over in this country. This time, however, the regime may have shot itself in the foot.
By the time the 2008 elections are held, we will be importing bread from Botswana, Zambia and South Africa. Alternatively, we might not need any elections at all come 2008. Without regime change the prices of all our goods and services will only go up, or go missing altogether.
12.7.2007
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Jambanja in the supermarket
BY JOHN MAKUMBE
'We might not need any elections at all come 2008'
First it was on the commercial farms that the ruining Zanu (PF) unleashed its notorious jambanja, and the results are living hell for all of us to this day. With the near complete destruction of the agricultural sector, the


