Zimbabwe
govt. outlaws Nigerians from trading
Starting from January next year, Nigerian and Chinese
nationals trading in Zimbabwe have been ordered to close shop.
Zimbabwean authorities has said that they have given
foreign shop-owners, mostly Chinese and Nigerian nationals, an ultimatum to
shut down their businesses by Jan. 1, 2014.
A top official of the black empowerment ministry said
only Zimbabweans had the right to run shops that have sprung up across the
country and are termed foreign businesses targeted under the nation’s black
empowerment laws, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported Friday.
Those laws, passed in 2007, demand foreign businesses to
cede 51 percent control to local blacks. The foreign shop owners have been
criticized for taking retail trade opportunities from
Zimbabwean traders by selling cheap imports.
Poor townships and city flea markets have in recent years
been inundated by shops run by foreigners. According to state media, shop
owners who fail to comply will be arrested.
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