HARARE, 15 October 2008 (IRIN): Tendai Moyo, 28, living in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, goes into a shop in the downtown area and heads for a shelf where, a day ago, she saw a feeding bottle she wanted to buy for her three-month-old son.
She picks it up and goes to the till, convinced she can afford this luxury for her child, but the cashier nonchalantly tells her the price has more than doubled, and the new price is more than the cash she has on her.
Moyo, a cleaner and one of the few people with a job in a country with an unemployment rate of more than 80 per cent, storms out and joins a long queue at a nearby bank to see if she can withdraw more money.
– This price madness is frustrating, and it makes you hopeless because it seems it will never come to an end. I just don’t understand why and how prices keep on increasing at such a rate, Moyo told IRIN.
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