By Talent Gondo- In an interview soon after the Bulawayo clean-up campaign at Ross Camp Police Station, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Cain Mathema said opening up the economy and increasing production will dismantle cartels.

He said:

“Let us share the economy because when you are a monopoly and cartel you end up fixing prices and it’s clear that prices are being fixed. The Minister of Industry (and Commerce) (Nqobizitha) Ndlovu has issued a statement on that showing that cartels fix prices and hide certain goods. Let us share the economy of this country together.

This is what the President wants done. This is what the majority of our people want. The President and his Cabinet has gone out of their way to ensure that prices are stabilised but the cartels are doing what they are doing now.

That’s why prices are going up everyday. You will have a number of companies owned by one individual who determines what should be done. 

The prices of wheat and bread go up everyday, the price of cooking oil goes up everyday. We don’t want that.”-StateMedia