• Serious “Security Matter”.
• Harare starved Matabeleland by refusing maize imports from South America.

Zimbabwe’s has run out of maize with Matabeleland grinding to a halt this weekend.
Information leaked to ZimEye.com reveal the last 7 days were the end of the entire Matabeleland’s remaining stock.
Despite attempts by ZANU PF to conceal the embarrassing information, ZimEye.com can reveal the nation has been thrown into a crisis. A letter written to the Minister of Agriculture by Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe Chair Mr T Ndhlovu, copied to the presidium and the rest of ZANU PF’s heirarchy, states that this is now a “Security Matter”.
“Pursuant to several submissions submitted by our Chairman, Mr. Tafadzwa Musarara, concerning the urgent need to open all fronts to import maize from anywhere in the world, we write to advise that the maize situation in Matabeleland provinces is now dire and degenerating into a security matter,” part of the letter reads.
It continues, “I regret to advise you that maize supplies for commercial milling in Bulawayo currently stand at one-week supply and the situation will deteriorate to no supply level very soon. Our chapter is deeply disappointed by your ministry decision to decline application of maize imports from South Africa and South America for the milling of maize meal and livestock feeds.
“We are at loss as to why you are declining to issue permits for maize from these above-mentioned countries. Zambia has put an export ban of Food Reserve Agency maize. This has affected this region badly and this is very unfair to the businesses and people of Matabeleland. Food is a constitutional right and we are entitled to demand, as we hereby do, for your office to start, forthwith, to issue permits to all grain traders which are mentioned in the maize importation action plan submitted to you by our national office. However, if we fail to get your cooperation in this regard we will have no option but to seek the intervention of courts to compel your office to do the same.”