News stories by Tonderai Kwidini

Her small tattered book is full of lists of orders for goods such as beer, maize-meal and chemicals. On another page are addresses and phone numbers of store managers while, on another, a list of names has been jotted down along with corresponding amounts.

The collapse of the Zimbabwean economy has led to the ‘‘dollarisation’’ of the economy – and even to what some, who have still maintained some sense for tragicomedy, call the ‘‘petrolisation’’ of the economy because of the re-emergence of barter trade.