Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) Bulawayo has said that its bakery situated at the association’s offices at Entumbane high-density suburb has already started producing cheap bread.
ZNLWVA Bulawayo spokesperson, Christopher Sibanda told Southern Eye that they started producing bread on Tuesday, the day of the launch, after receiving a donation of wheat from Provincial Affairs minister Judith Ncube. Sibanda added:
We have already started baking bread and we have groups of 10 people who work, so they take turns in working…on the day of launch, bread was being sold for ZW$ 5.
We have the capacity to produce cheap bread compared to what other confectionary companies are charging.
The development comes after the ruling party this year also launched community bakeries to head off the huge shortage of bread grounding the country due to the depletion of wheat reserves.
Meanwhile, some observers believe that the war veterans’ project will not meet a demand of more than 10 000 a day in the City of Queens and Kings considering that their ovens are operated manually.
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