The First Lady Grace Mugabe has continued to support Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016, which has seen the banning of the importation of certain products, further tormenting Zimbabweans who survive on cross border trade for survival.
This is at a time that informal cross-border traders in Zimbabwe are in for another shocker as government is planning to expand an unpopular imports ban. The country is headed for more protests after the previous ban sparked violent demonstrations at the Beitbridge border post that connects into South Africa and was temporarily shut as protesters clashed with the police.
Mugabe urged the Zimbabwe Republic Police’s Kuyedza Women’s Club to capitalise on SI 64 to increase production for the local market, without taking into account the already documented negative impact the instrument in question has had on Zimbabweans.
The Minister of Home Affairs Dr Ignatius Chombo said the projects being carried out by women are part of the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation, hence the need to continuously support the initiative.
ZRP Kuyedza Women’s Club vice president Dr Isabel Chihuri said women are striving to produce high quality and competitive products.
The annual show was attended by the Namibia Minister of Home Affairs and Immigration Mrs Pendukeni Ithana, ZRP Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri, Mt Pleasant legislator Jason Passadi and other senior police officers. ZBC