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ZIMRA’s Smuggling Crackdown Blamed For Empty Shop Shelves

3 weeks agoMon, 27 Jan 2025 21:30:42 GMT
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ZIMRA’s Smuggling Crackdown Blamed For Empty Shop Shelves

The shortage of consumer goods from formal wholesalers and retailers is partly due to ongoing anti-smuggling operations by a multi-sectoral taskforce, a senior official has stated.

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce is leading the taskforce, which includes ZIMRA, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), the Consumer Protection Commission, and other law-enforcement agencies.

George Charamba, spokesperson for the Presidency, commented on the recently promulgated Customs and Excise (Designated Deemed Smuggled Goods) Regulations, 2025.

These regulations require manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers to provide proof that customs duty has been paid for goods in their possession.

Charamba revealed that ZIMRA is currently holding 30-tonne loads of consumer goods sourced from South Africa, intended for smuggling into Zimbabwe. Charamba posted on X:

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What you may not know is that ZIMRA is holding 30-tonne loads upon loads of consumer goods sourced in SA and meant to be smuggled into Zimbabwe. These trucks belonged to different wholesalers and retailers.

The low stock levels we see in the formal market are partly related to management issues and partly to impounded contraband from the ongoing anti-smuggling operations. We know where we are going; there will be order in the market. Trust us!

Over the weekend, ZIMRA Commissioner-General Regina Chinamasa said that ZIMRA impounded goods valued at approximately US$2.4 million and state warehouses are at full capacity with recovered goods.

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45 Comments

Anonymous · 2 weeks ago
Iv a close example. Just last week there were chaos police payaiva muroad . Vaida marefector fire extinguisher and so on. Ndakaona zvakawanda vamwe vaitiza maroad block vamwe vaisungwa vamwe vaitonyora vamwe vane ma I.d vachingofuura vamwewo ndovaita chiramwa vachisiya MOTA kudzimba vamwe vaive nezvakakwana vaidarika pamwe nevaive neluck ravo. A lot happened.Akabenefita gvt nepolice ndiani? Likewise tichaona zvakawanda apa.Most informal traders are likely to go more informal. Vanozogona here kubhadhara shop license inoda around $600. Those remaining are likely to face challenges as it will be very difficult to operate under needed structures. We are likely to experience a cat and mouse game. Our situation Is very complicated. I wish we were united.
Xx · 2 weeks ago
Iwe we face yechidhori verenga zvakanaka usati wa commenter hanzi (30 tonne loads upon loads of goods) chimbo Bata Vic akufundise chingezi .
Anonymous · 2 weeks ago
Ma tuckshops muchaavhara zvenyu hanty hakuna tax ikuuya kubva ikoko plus ma civil servants amuri Kupa zig Ayo ndiwo achakupandukirai kuti totengepi nemari isingashande chinhu iyoyo
Anonymous · 2 weeks ago
ESTIMED LEADERS, With all your regulations, raids, failed and unworkable currency - you are destroying what is left of our crumbling economy. Take your hands off the steering wheel and let businesses work best they can, with whatever system works best - before it is too late!!
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Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
Ok yapedzwa ne grand challenge promotion. They over spent on promotions vachipa vanhu mota etc which pick n pay doesn't do
ZimSketch · 3 weeks ago
so Ok is the biggest smugler.. .
Vic Venom · 3 weeks ago
We cannot have an economy that runs on the whims of smugglers and corrupt executives...Let the shops be empty then ..We cannot have a veneer of normalcy when it is being sustained by illicit smuggling...Rant over sanity restored
Anonymous · 2 weeks ago
That's the spirit the nation needs now.
Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
RBZ the cause ....
Private Investigator · 3 weeks ago
Nonsense headline. So OK supermarket shelves are empty because the supermarket giants have been stocking their shops with smuggled goods. HANDIZVOBA
Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
Supermarkets don't know where wholesalers source their supplies from.
Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
Saka tiikutii apa? Ma Retailers akaita saana OK vasisina zvinokosha muma sherufu ne ma firiji varikuita smuggling futi here?
The Curator · 3 weeks ago
Imimi OK yamuri kuita haiisisina chinhu ndeipi iyoyo? Because OK supermarket yekuno yakazara
Chamisa · 3 weeks ago
Huya ku bindura mu zanu iwe, yazara mvura ma shelf
Martin Marufu · 3 weeks ago
Enda unoona OK Fife Avenue. Kana yenyu yakazara itotengai because come week, it will be emptier than this one
Murambwi · 3 weeks ago
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Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
Bread and butter issues.
Anonymous · 2 weeks ago
All u do is talk talk nothing u know , OUR country it has no industry production nothing of our country tht can gives us stable incomes zvese hapana ,things are already going down prices are going up ..iwewe ne zimra yacho hamuna kukwana Zimra on its tax and percentages hazvisi fixed nekuti hamungati ure going to charge 30% to 40% ye duty ne price yamunoona pa internet ichitengeswa nayo ?? Ure very ****
😎Chirasha😎 · 3 weeks ago
Haaa pakashata isusu takurohwa tax kuchikafu zvanga zvisati zvamboitika chigaya kuti ma duty iwawo anenge akaitawo sey thts y pipo are smuggling stuff these formal chain stores have to have an exorbitant number of licenses to operate regulations are just rather punitive systematically its a pity
Satan 👹 · 3 weeks ago
muchatisvotsva pakuti ticham@misana muno munyika coz an hungry man is an angry man itai madhunamutuna enyu iwawo,Who ever is advising you on this crap must be fired
@vhedza · 3 weeks ago
Practising good business ethics is the way out. Most business people were interested in shady business dealings at the boarders busy smuggling goods and sell them at exorbitant prices. Good business ethics first. That's the Zimbabwe we want.
Chamisa · 3 weeks ago
Imbotangai maisa president aidiwa nevanhu, musati mataura pfocho
Svari · 2 weeks ago
So u think if they pay duty prices will be lower, think again
motomuzhinji · 3 weeks ago
Our duties are too high, that's why importers end up resorting to smuggling. why not reduce the duty so that local prices are in line with neighboring countries.
Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
Charamba says "trust us". LOL
Ctrl Alt Del · 3 weeks ago
its like stitching the butthole to stop diarrhea it wont work
theLastAntKing · 3 weeks ago
nzara paHarare iyo, pakasafungwa zvakanaka panofiwa chete
The Curator · 3 weeks ago
Gore rapera chairo kwaive ne drought, asi hapana akafa nenzara wani? Kana ma groceries chaiwo haana kushaika kana muma shops
Chamisa · 3 weeks ago
Grocery raipera sei vanhu vasina mari
Meda Online · 3 weeks ago
Kkkk TRUST WHO? We can't appoint and trust a hyena to take care of goats.
mwenewazvo · 3 weeks ago
iiigh ska 30 tonnes dzidzo loads of loads here nhai joji,unosvika pachikamu chekuzorora shuwa.
Rebelyus · 3 weeks ago
That's embarrassing. these Ediots aare clueless.
Zozo · 3 weeks ago
Zanu must try and test Chiwenga kwete Ediot Shamwari yembavha. Izvezvi arikutofunga kuti 30 confiscated tonnes of goods angadzibawo sei
dump dumper and the dumperor · 3 weeks ago
𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘂𝘀 kkkkk yohwe zvakaoma ungatoisa trust pa system ine n****ondo yekukundikana since independence hapana chavanoita chinobudirira besides corruption
Tigerforce · 3 weeks ago
Usanyepe Charamba wanzwa. Ana Ok nemamwe mashops havachakwanisa kuoperator nenyaya yenyu yemaZig
ndungezh · 3 weeks ago
hadzitozive kuti 30tonnes chii charamba anorwara i 1trck gogii
🦁 · 3 weeks ago
Kkkkkkk madhara Aya anofunga kuti manyebero ekuma 80s achirikushanda. Kana utiwe propaganda ziva padzoshandira. Imagine most retail shops are in cities and towns where people have some education. Saka ungatinyepere kuti 30tonnes ndodzirikukonzera shortage and empty shelves. Nyika Yose igovhundutswa ne 1 truck.
🦁 · 3 weeks ago
30 tonnes is like one truck George. So is one truck causing empty shelves accross the country.
Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
Hanzi 30 tonne loads.dzakawanda
Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
It’s like you are burning the whole house just to kill a rat.
5 · 3 weeks ago
in order to fix a rotten foundation you need to bring the whole house down.Such is the case here.

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