If you have the money, there is again plenty to buy in the stores of Zim­babwe. Last year, store shelves were empty thought the coun­try do to the hyper infla­tion of the Zim cur­rency. Once Zim­babwe scrapped their local cur­rency and lifted import restric­tions peo­ple can shop again.

From South Africa’s 24 News, we hear more from a Zim­babwe shopper.

“It a lux­ury for those who have money to buy,” said Mar­ian Chi­tuku, a 36-year-old mother of three, hold­ing a loaf of bread as she walked out of a super­mar­ket in the working-class sub­urb of Chi­tung­wiza, out­side the cap­i­tal.

“The shops are full, but to us there is no dif­fer­ence because we can­not afford the goods. They are as good as non-existent. We only see them on the shelves.”

Chi­tuku said her fam­ily has tea — with­out milk — in the late morn­ing, skips lunch and then eat din­ner as their only meal in order to stretch her income from a veg­etable stall in the township.

But in Harare’s leafy sub­urbs, super­mar­kets are a shopper’s par­adise for the select few decid­ing between imported had­dock fil­lets or full-shell mussels.

“You can get every­thing you want here,” Josephine Maruc­chi, a house­wife from the posh sub­urb of Mount Pleas­ant, said paus­ing to choose from the var­i­ous brands of cheese before com­plet­ing the sen­tence: “as long as you have money.

“It’s com­pletely dif­fer­ent from last year when peo­ple had money and the shops were empty,” she added.

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