Complete border shutdown looms

With local regional small traders and transporters planning to shut down all the country's border from Monday next week onwards, unless the government lifts its controversial imports ban, Zimbabwe could be plunged into unprecedented chaos including suffering debilitating shortages of food and other basic goods.

This latest dose of bad news for the country comes President Robert Mugabe's government is facing myriad crises, including a dying economy, worsening cash shortages, rising poverty and unemployment levels and growing citizen unrest, all widely blamed on Zanu PF's misrule of the past 36 years.