For Zimbabweans After Mugabe: A Change ‘for the Worse’

For Zimbabweans After Mugabe: A Change ‘for the Worse’
Solomon Chakauya, who says people have no money to buy the things they would wish to buy, waits for customers in his grocery store in Chinamhora, Zimbabwe, on Dec. 10, 2018. JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP/Getty Images
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HARARE, Zimbabwe—Maria Menza wakes up at 4 a.m. to buy fruit at Mbare Musika, a fruit and vegetable market in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, to sell to passersby in the city’s central business district.

“To think I am getting less than 50 cents [in Zimbabwean RTGS dollars] less in profit for these bananas, which is not even enough to take me back home and feed my children,” Menza, a widow who resides in Budiriro, a high-density area in Harare, told The Epoch Times.