Zimbabwe: Extortionate Pricing Storm Rocks Council

18 September 2018

Founder and executive chairman of Econet Group Mr Strive Masiyiwa has taken a swipe at some suppliers of hygiene products like gloves for taking advantage of the cholera outbreak to inflate prices.

In a tweet yesterday, Mr Masiyiwa said following a public announcement by his company that it had earmarked $10 million to assist the Government in containing the cholera outbreak that has so far killed 30 people and affected over 5 000 others, suppliers and local authority officials inflated prices by over 1 000 percent.

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