Fear of mass protests rises in Zimbabwe

With most Zimbabweans stressing about the country's dying economy and rising poverty levels as well as the heightened company closures and job redundancies more and more observers are predicting the imminent explosion of social unrest and debilitating mass actions.

The latest to envisage more doom and gloom for the country is United Kingdom Research company, NKC African Economics, a unit of the world famous Oxford Economics think tank.

NKC said in its latest report on Zimbabwe that a wave of mass demonstrations and social unrest, spawned by the country's stuttering economy and high levels of poverty and unemployment due to decades of misrule by President Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu-PF.