Mugabe: Price hikes a plot

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Mahusekwa - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe accused businesses on Wednesday of hiking prices to turn voters against him ahead of presidential elections later this month.

"They keep raising and raising prices, and we wonder whether they want to raise the prices until the prices reach heaven," Mugabe told thousands of villagers at a campaign rally in Mahusekwa, about 70km south-east of the capital.

"Some are doing it for the elections saying: 'Let's make life hard for the people so that they cry and blame it all on Mugabe's government.

"They'll get 1 000% profit. That's not profit. That's profiteering which is condemned in the Bible."

Mugabe admitted Zimbabweans were facing numerous problems, like food shortages, saying his government had formed emergency committees to expedite food distribution.

Zimbabweans go to the polls on March 29 to elect a president, legislators, senators and local councillors.

Mugabe, 84, is hoping to secure a sixth term of office as leader of the former British colony he has ruled since independence in 1980.

The elections are to take place against a backdrop of economic meltdown in Zimbabwe, which has an official inflation rate of more than 100 000% - the highest in the world.

The government has tried several measures to rein in runaway inflation, including ordering companies to halve prices after accusing them of colluding with Mugabe's foes to trigger anti-government protests.
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http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_2282878,00.html
 
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boramk said:
Mahusekwa - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe accused businesses on Wednesday of hiking prices to turn voters against him ahead of presidential elections later this month.

"They keep raising and raising prices, and we wonder whether they want to raise the prices until the prices reach heaven," Mugabe told thousands of villagers at a campaign rally in Mahusekwa, about 70km south-east of the capital.

"Some are doing it for the elections saying: 'Let's make life hard for the people so that they cry and blame it all on Mugabe's government.

"They'll get 1 000% profit. That's not profit. That's profiteering which is condemned in the Bible."

Mugabe admitted Zimbabweans were facing numerous problems, like food shortages, saying his government had formed emergency committees to expedite food distribution.

Zimbabweans go to the polls on March 29 to elect a president, legislators, senators and local councillors.

Mugabe, 84, is hoping to secure a sixth term of office as leader of the former British colony he has ruled since independence in 1980.

The elections are to take place against a backdrop of economic meltdown in Zimbabwe, which has an official inflation rate of more than 100 000% - the highest in the world.

The government has tried several measures to rein in runaway inflation, including ordering companies to halve prices after accusing them of colluding with Mugabe's foes to trigger anti-government protests.
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So he is quoting from the bible now, is he?

In troubled times many people embrace religion.

May Mugabe live in interesting times.
 
Better still, remember a short while ago ( cant remember where i read it ) where Mugabe told the business owners to sell their stuf at cost? ( or was it below cost ) :confused:
Anyways, you cant blame the ppl for "upping" their prices
 
"They'll get 1 000% profit. That's not profit. That's profiteering which is condemned in the Bible."

No no Bob, do not bring the faith into your mess, live and die knowing it is of your own making.

I fear the man will loose the will to live after he is discarded and tarnished by his peers.
 
<Business owners> We upped our prices Bob, so up yours...
 
I guess the only time he'll lose an election is when all his voters have died of starvation
 
***overheard, somewhere in china****
#1: "hey, u hear this...mugabe may lose his election!!!"
#2: "!!!eeekkk!!!!!! so what u doing just sitting there u lazy slant-eyed rice-paddy-dropout...send him some blue pills quickly"
 
Inflation @ 105 000% (yesterday) and $25million zim to the USD - yeah Mugabooboo, it is all a plot.
 
What's he gonna do? Force the shopkeepers to sell below cost again? :rolleyes:

The high prices are his own fault, yet Mubage won't admit it.

Now that he've mentioned profiteering and the Bible in the same sentence, maybe it is high time that he follows Biblical advice and remove the beam from his own eye before removing the mote in his brother's eye...
 
How hard can it be to just assasinate this fool!?
 
Heard that the other guy (Not the MDC because they are silly) refused to give people mealie meal and sugar at campaign stops recently. He said he preferred to offer real change to people and not just a bag of mealie during election time and disappear for the next 5 years.

I'd vote for that guy. He seems to have a brain up there. :)
 
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