The crowds of night-time street traders have expanded as the southern African country's economic crisis, marked by high inflation and unemployment, pushes people to earn extra cash or look for bargains to make their money go further.
The dire state of the economy is blamed on years of government mismanagement and corruption, made worse this year by the global food and energy shortages precipitated by the Ukraine crisis. There are also traders who sell their wares in informal pop-up street markets during the day, but these are frequently raided and dispersed by police.
Street markets for survival will be typical in America, in the coming years. Our national debt is coming due, and the accompanying financial collapse will be bad.
Thanks a lot, Biden!
Compare with their past, it's nothing
Everyone knows that this is all because of climate change and a $500B climate slush fund will fix it.
We don't hve Leadership in our beloved Zimbabwe
Its ironic that a statue of Cecil Rhodes was torn down - a man who turned a load of scrubland into a country; while Robert Mugabe - a man who destroyed a country has received only a fraction of the hate
'Equity' will look a lot like this for a larger group of people....
Diesel fuel is $11.64 a gallon in Zimbabwe... When it costs more to transport goods, goods cost more.
Lol outlawing pop up street markets. What a fucked up move.
While I can't dispute.. it's hard to conceptualize anything happening in Zimbabwe. Does anyone even follow reuters in Zimbabwe?
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