The businessman told me before I can buy a bag of rice, I must buy L$1000 (US$6.50) worth of other items that I do not need. “We have to stand in a long queue, and sometimes we even sleep there just to be able to buy rice. He didn’t set out to go and buy flour. But I, too, made the customers to buy four Era Paint buckets of flour along with each bag of rice. “Because when we go to buy rice, the importers tell us that we must buy other commodities along with the rice.

Source: Front Page Africa September 30, 2022 16:50 UTC