Mthuli Ncube, Zimbabwe's finance minister, speaks during an interview in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. On the eve of major protests, which were called by the main opposition party over plunging living standards, Ncube said the country would establish a Monetary Policy Committee within a month that will cut interest rates, begin selling bonds with maturities of as long as 30 years, and proceed with a plan to privatize everything from state telecommunications companies to timber plantations. Photographer: Cynthia R Matonhodze/Bloomberg
IT IS risky for authorities to sanction the selling of fuel in ZiG at the moment, as doing so could cause shortages in the country, the minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, has said.
Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Ncube said the last thing that Zimbabwe needed was a fresh disruption of the delicate fuel market, which could stoke snaking queues for petrol and diesel, as had happened in the past.
