According to news reports, starting from January next year, Nigerians
trading in Zimbabwe will no longer be allowed to. Zimbabwean authorities said
they have given foreign shop-owners, mostly Chinese and Nigerian nationals, an
ultimatum to shut down their businesses by January. 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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