The Cyclones and the staggering Economy!

Zimbabwe has adopted a hawker economy for the past decade and half. The  economy  has been staggering and  fighting  the waves  of collapse since  the year  1998.Closure of the production industries  contributed to liquidity crunch  and  rampant  unemployment   plunging  the  country  in  serious social ,economic and  political quagmire. The 2015- 2016 farming  season has  recorded  a poor bearing due  to change of climate  that have brought serious cyclones leaving farmers, peasants and the whole Zimbabwe dumfounded, empty handed and untold suffering . The ELNino is also contributing to political bickering    in the country and also leaving  the country polarized  due   to  poor social delivery and widespread hunger.

The subsistence  farmers    most of them are  veterans of war  have since  also come up in arms with government , they clamour  for  the rich cake  of the nation   currently enjoyed by the ruling elite. Agriculture  is  the backbone of  many  Zimbabweans and many  the farmer's   hopes  have been stifled and washed away by unpredictable  climatic patterns and unfriendly weather conditions. On  the  other  hand the unpredictability of heavy  torrential rains, heavy winds  and heat waves is  disrupting business in various  hawker and vendor  communities in CBDs across the country in  cities and  towns. Heavy rains mostly unexpectedly fall during  vending hours in open markets  and  vending stalls leaving  vendors with no option  but losing most of their wares and most  their assortments are perishable  including  vegetables , fruits, maize  and other foodstuffs.
 
These market stalls and vending  places have become big employers to most  Zimbabweans since the fall of mainstream  industry . The  City governors and the state  prove  not to be climate and healthy conscious  since most  of the vending  stalls are near sewer pipes, drains   and  open places which also   are critical to the health of the people, the city and the country at large. These vendors  proper  infrastructure that  is  weather and climate friendly and that    might assist to boost their business  since  vending  have become  the source of survival and have become  the spinal cord of the Zimbabwean  economy.
 
Life has become difficult with such disruptions and disturbances of extreme  heat waves and heavy showers which  slow down the  cashing  in of vendors as  customers are kept  in house  for almost 3 days in a week. The intense heat   results in serious lose of perishable  goods  which mostly   is  food and that  means  lose of  capital. Such hurdles  continue to strangle the already strangled   economy  .
Given the poor farming season in Zimbabwe, these vendors in towns and cities direct their meagre incomes back to their rural folk, mostly elders, children and sick relatives to fetch  basic food stuffs and other smaller needs  in their drought  ridden villages. This comes  on top  of their  own  requirements of  town life, high taxes, electricity bills, rental bills, transport  bills, food  bills, waters bills and school bills . In such situations  desperate  rural Zimbabweans  also.

Also realize the need  to find other ways  of survival   that is cutting down trees to  sell wood  for survival and as well as sell their remaining  livestock, which by then means they do not  farm  with  proper  ox drawn the next farming season. It becomes the cycle of hunger and poverty in the whole country. Their peers  in cities they also suffer the brunt of corrupt municipal police  who sometimes take away  or  extort their means of survival, their goods.

Nevertheless the Cyclones are strangling the already strangled economy!