Parched and pillaged – Zimbabwe gets even worse

Buying power from Eskom might be an option, except that Zimbabwe languishes near the bottom of the list, along with South African municipalities unable to pay their debt.
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Just when you thought things could not get any bleaker in Zimbabwe – they do. A sober section in the Middle East and Africa Section of The Economist offers a tale of increasing financial woe for the weary citizens who now cannot even afford to communally pray in the numbers they once did – they're simply too poor to travel to church. Those same people are almost certainly on their knees at home in supplication for some kind of divine intervention. – Chris Bateman

By Thulasizwe Sithole

It's the worst economic crisis in a decade. In this command economy, finance ministers flail about, rendering themselves hypocrites overnight as they change policy more often than the taps run with clean water (once a week), and corruption cripples the country, particularly when it comes to the pricing of alarmingly-scarce maize. Harare's reservoirs are leaking from lack of maintenance and the chemicals needed to keep the remaining water clean cannot be bought due to lack of foreign currency.

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