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"Half Of Grocery Items Sold In Zimbabwean Tuck Shops Are Fake"

2 weeks agoWed, 26 Feb 2025 10:32:15 GMT
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"Half Of Grocery Items Sold In Zimbabwean Tuck Shops Are Fake"

Douglas Runyowa, the Chief Director for Commerce in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, has said nearly 50% of groceries seized from tuck shops and vending stalls during the ongoing crackdown on counterfeit and smuggled goods in Zimbabwe are fake and potentially harmful to health.

Speaking before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Industry and Commerce on Tuesday, Runyowa expressed concern over the growing problem of counterfeit products in Zimbabwe, saying the situation has reached alarming levels. He said (via ZimLive):

Most of what we have seen in the informal sector is quite shocking, and in our awareness programmes, we are saying it might be cheap but it’s coming at an expense to your health because we cannot guarantee what is not there.

Our health authorities have not certified some of those goods as safe and fit for human consumption, hence we really need to intensify our efforts through an all-stakeholder approach and it is a fight that would also be needed for our portfolio committee to help us intensify, because really what is out there is quite scary.

Runyowa revealed that the counterfeit products seized include fake Vaseline, flour, rice, and toothpaste. He said:

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I would like to, not to scare you, but to advise you that we recently carried out a survey with the Standards Association of Zimbabwe where we went and bought products from the shelf and took them for testing and compared what was written in the results; 50 per cent of the products did not comply. You can actually see fake Vaseline, fake flour, fake rice, fake toothpaste, and this is an alarming rate.

You will be aware that over the last quarter, going back to October, there has been an intensified blitz against counterfeit goods, against smuggled goods, so much so that even this afternoon we are actually destroying about four tonnes of goods that were actually confiscated during that practice, to ensure that we remove them from the shelves, because we cannot guarantee our people that they are actually consuming safe goods.

Runyowa called on Parliament to lend its support in the ongoing battle against the spread of counterfeit products.

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27 Comments

Anonymous · 2 weeks ago
I think most of the fake items are processed things like tinned items,dairy products,and detergents.But most of these fakes are coming from South Africa back yard manufacturing facilities and they put original sticker brands.Thesr are done through those Ethiopian,Pakistani entities.Ukuwona ndopagara parikuhoda Vanu vema Dola shop Kuma kula ikoko mu SA. In SA pakaita operation last year yema spaza shop targeting those goods
asalif · 2 weeks ago
Regai tidye zvakachipa not all of us afford to buy at pick and pay or OK , how can rice, sugar, salt or flour be fake
VaBhomba · 2 weeks ago
Haaa muno muzimbabwe zvese zvangova fake. Imbozamai kunwa 7up Pepsi or mirinda ndopaunoona kuti nyika kwairi kuenda ndokwairi kubva. Muzimbabwe tiri kumas**** zvekuti vamwe vari muna 2024 isu maybe tiri muna 1975 chaimo because kusara kwatakaita kunotobhowa
🅻🆄🅲🅺🆈 ➳✰ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ❝🅜🅤🅕🅐🅢🅐❞ ☙ · 2 weeks ago
Wow vanhu vacharwara🤔
mculi nthube · 2 weeks ago
I can understand fake Vaseline, but what is counterfeit rice, flour?
VPN · 2 weeks ago
fake flour makes fake bread
👀👀 · 2 weeks ago
I rice or flour risingasvike ma grams kana ma its anenge akanyorwa pa package
Anonymous · 2 weeks ago
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gumlaz · 2 weeks ago
siyanai nevanhu vaitewo mari take take nematuckshop tsvee kuita take take nembavha dzirikubira nyika mari magold mafia nxaa
OK musika · 2 weeks ago
tese tiri kungozvibika azora anotsvukisa,anwa e****,adya rice ne huku yemapiritsi,arova dombo,musombo, mirinda, original coke,orange crush irikugadziriswa drug zvamanjemanje pambare
will · 2 weeks ago
always panonzi fake items vanongoisa sugar papic hakuna zvimwe here
tindo tuckshop · 2 weeks ago
yes its true,Check the Expiry date , expired lager beers,mahewu&Sipa its worsening
Wrong password · 2 weeks ago
Here in Zimbabwe do we have a company which manufacture Vaseline and toothpaste .
kufa takaguta kuri nani pane kufa nezhara · 2 weeks ago
Hakuna chinorwadza se sober sense muchapisa here kana kuti muchangotora rice muchinoisa mutumatakada twenyu tusingasungwe kune tuma shop tusingavhariswe kana kugumhwa nyangwe kukaitwa ma operation anengei ...zvichapera neumwe musi hakuna chinogara kusvika narini kunze kwa Mwari voga ndivo zuro nhasi mangwana nekusingaperi...
VaBhomba · 2 weeks ago
Fanike twa Spiwe Mukunyaidze kuna Rezende hatuvharwi
coni · 2 weeks ago
musatenge rice rakanzi fertilizer harinaki
Vigilante · 2 weeks ago
😂😂haugone kuribika ncaa. rice riya yakanyanya manje
hhjk · 2 weeks ago
ZIG is fake too.... causes health hazards through stress,, difficult to use in other needs,, the value may loose when 1 is in a bank queque ...one may easily stroke when corvert it into $USD...the list is Endless
Min · 2 weeks ago
Munenge muripi wanhu wachitambura ne hurombo, vhurai maindustries a makavhara kugadzirwe zvinhu chaizvo. Kupinda kwe counterfeit muripi paborder apo corruption yako minister. Kunyepera kutityira health yedu iwe uchiba kufarira kickback mbavhambwa. Kwese tofa tisina chinhu.
But Why ? · 2 weeks ago
I would like to, not to scare you, but to advise you that we recently carried out a survey where we took the ZiG and the USD and tested them, ZiG did not comply. You can actually see fake ZiG is rubbish, and this is very alarming..
The High Priest · 2 weeks ago
🤣🤣🤣 you made my day 💯
yes · 2 weeks ago
ZiG is fake too !
Gaddafi · 2 weeks ago
chii chapa kudaro ,root cause

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