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Food riots warnings

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zimbabwe was likely to experience a repeat of the violent 1997 food riots if the government continued to turn a blind eye to economic problems affecting the country, Munyaradzi Gwisai, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Member of Parliament for Highfield, was quoted by the ‘Zimbabwe Standard’ as saying.

    Gwisai said that the strikes would be worse than the 1997 food riots because workers could not continue to suffer in silence. Gwisai said the labour laws in the country were biased against workers and needed to be revised.

    “The labour question can no longer be wished away. If it is not resolved, then it will be resolved on the shop floor and on the streets of our country and this time, in a manner that will make the December 1997 stay away and the January 1998 bread riots look like tea-party picnics,” Gwisai said.

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