The price of flour is this week likely to go up by over 30% following the skyrocketing foreign currency auction-rate which is now chasing the parallel market, NewZimbabwe.com can exclusively report.
The government, through the central bank, recently introduced a weekly foreign currency auction system in which companies bid for the exchange rate.
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