Jane Mlambo| Opposition Leader, Nelson Chamisa has warned that demonstrations against the Zanu PF Government will not stop until the two percent tax on all electronic transactions is scrapped.

“We are not going to stop protests until that [new] 2 percent tax on mobile transactions is scrapped. It’s thievery; it must go,” he said. “You [government] ask citizens to pay duty in foreign currency, yet they are paid in local currency. All civil servants and everyone must be paid in U.S. dollars.”

This has set the stage for a bruising battle between government and the opposition following remarks by both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube that the new tax is a necessary evil that will bring results later.