This is an article from an interview with a government senior official in Zimbabwe's Finance Ministry, Doc Mtusi, by the Cape Times.

The unpatriotic hoarding of food gives the impression that we have a problem when clearly we haven't. We do not call it starving, we call it fasting. Fasting is good for you. Lots of famous people have fasted for the benefit of their people. Gandi, for instance. In our case, the people will be encouraged to fast thereby strengthening themselves against the onslaught of colonial imperialism. We have no objection in principle to people eating. Those of us in Government all eat, but only because persons in our important positions have to. What we must guard against is the belief that people have the right to break the law because they're hungry.
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