Desperate times bring desperate measures in Zim

The new professionals are known as 'queuers', who buy goods at discounted prices as a result of forced government price cuts and resell them at a substantial profit on the illegal parallel market.

Martha Nyoni, 45, a widow and unemployed mother of five, recently joined the group. She says she has found a survival strategy that works, but acknowledges that somewhere down the line someone has to pay the price.

"We have no choice except to charge the high prices because we spend a lot of time in queues, and for those that do not want to queue, they have to pay for our time spent in the queues."

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