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The memo repeated Cosatu's demands for nationalisation of the mealie-meal, bread and milk value chains.
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One white woman, who recently returned to her native Harare after several years in Surrey, told me how she recently visited a previously white-owned farm – grabbed by war vets in 2003 – to buy maize mealie-meal at the knock-down price of Z$15 billion per 50 kg bag.
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One white woman, who recently returned to her native Harare after several years in Surrey, told me how she recently visited a previously white-owned farm – grabbed by war vets in 2003 – to buy maize mealie-meal at the knock-down price of Z$15 billion per 50 kg bag.
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Many shop shelves are now bare of basic commodities like bread, sugar, margarine and the staple "mealie-meal."
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Many shop shelves are now bare of basic commodities like bread, sugar, margarine and the staple "mealie-meal."
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The official price for 10 kg of mealie-meal is 180,000 Zimbabwe dollars (1.8 US dollars).
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's government is investigating worsening shortages of the staple mealie-meal in stores around the country, accusing sellers of "irregularities," the official Herald reported Monday.
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Shepherd Sibanda, warned police would arrest traders found to be overcharging for mealie-meal.
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"Their crocodile tears will not deter us from carrying out necessary action to rid ourselves of malpractises that have caused hardships to our people through illegal trade in essential commodities like sugar, soap, mealie-meal, fuel, foreign currency and clothing."
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The native gave me a good-day in Kaffir, then begged for tobacco or a handful of mealie-meal.
Prester John 2005
she commented on the word mealie-meal
Maize meal or flour (fr. S.Afr. Dutch, Afrikaans mieliemeel).
August 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word mealie-meal
I've heard this used in Australia by Aboriginal people who grew up on missions and in town camps. They said it was because the flour, difficult to store well here in tropical conditions, was often riddled with mealie bugs.
August 6, 2008