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Beginning of August 2006 Zimbabwe adjusted it’s currency, removing the zeros from the values in order to tackle hyper-inflation. One year later the government has introduced price controls, again in an effort to tame this animal called inflation. This has left most supermarket shelves empty and created a thriving black market. A new zw$200 000 bank note was also introduced to reduce the number of notes people carry around for day to day transactions. But there is nothing to buy in the supermarkets.

It is the majority of the people who will suffer, the ordinary person in the street. The same people who rejoice when the price controls are introduced, same same people the government wants to help. The same people who spent most of the day in queues or running from one supermarket to the other when there is rumour of supplies arriving. In most cases going through a day without eating, and probably some do not even get the chance to have a bath. God help them.

The has been a lot of publicity lately in different media of the plight of the Zimbabwean people. The worsening economic crisis, a far cry from the once thriving economy. Thousands of Zimbabweans are said to cross into South Africa and other neighbouring countries every week, many more are in different countries all over the world not out of choice. The idea is you are better off just getting out of the country. It does not matter where you go even to the Sun if possible.

What next Zimbabwe?

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