There was just the small matter of a passport, and then he could pack his bags. When he had last checked with the Registrar General's Office in the capital, Harare, which issues travel documents, an emergency passport cost US$200, a sum he had painstakingly saved.
Last week, he went to apply for a passport. "I was devastated when I was told that the government was no longer accepting its own currency [the Zimbabwean dollar], and that the cost of a passport for an adult had risen to US$670, while a new passport for children was now costing US$420," he told IRIN.
