Is it Prayers or Witches that Will Revive Zimbabwe?

Zimbabwe has of late succumbed to a major economic instability which has even seen the strength of their currency dropping drastically.

What Zimbabweans are currently seeking is the solution to the stalemate facing their nation and are just wondering whether there are possibilities of reviving it.

While it was thought that the former longest serving president Robert Mugabe was the primary cause, the situation has become even worse under the leadership of the current president Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Apart from the currency, it has also emerged that the country could be running out of bread in a week after flour stocks dwindled due to the country’s failure to pay for imported wheat, according to a confidential letter written to bakers by the country’s grain millers’ group on Monday.

The poor nation is in the grip of a severe shortage of U.S. dollars that has sapped supplies of fuel and drugs, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa struggles to live up to pre-election promises to quickly revive the troubled economy.

Zimbabwe imports wheat, which it blends with its local crop to make flour for bread, the country’s second major staple after maize meal.

The Grain Millers Association (GMAZ) general manager Lynette Veremu wrote to the National Bakers Association of Zimbabwe (NBAZ) to tell them the country not pay for 55,000 tonnes of wheat in bonded warehouses in Mozambique and Harare.

“We regret to advise that the current stocks for foreign wheat for bread flour have depleted to 5,800 tonnes and … we are left with less than eight days of national bread flour supplies,” the letter said.

GMAZ spokesman Garikai Chaunza confirmed the letter, saying “this is the situation we are faced with”.

However, Ngoni Mazango, the president of the bakers’ group, was not immediately available to comment.

The central bank has listed wheat among priority imports like fuel and drugs, but has struggled to pay suppliers in the past.

GMAZ confirmed in December it owed foreign suppliers $80 million for past wheat imports.

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