A national strike has begun in Zimbabwe because the government of Zimbabwe tripled the price of gasoline. The government, headed up but a President/Dictator Mugabe who has deeply divided the nation with his policies and rigged the last election to make sure he stayed in power, claims that they need to increase the price of gasoline to pay for the oil imports. Labor says that the cost of gasoline workers need to commute is now greater than the amount of money they make a day, and they will not return to work until the prices are brought down again. Meanwhile, 8 million in the country face a food shortage. Government blames that on the drought, but others say that it's his land policy reform which consisted of taking productive farms away from their owners usually because they were white.