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these intolerable conditions? The global community has a responsibility to ensure that the Zimbabwean people are assisted to regain their basic human rights.

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Nala Ndawana

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The rising of a new dawn, was what many Zimbabweans envisioned. What they got was nowhere near what they had imagined, even in their wildest dreams. The new era that was in sight with a new political party, hopefully a chance to be able to get basic food commodities, be able to exercise freedom of speech, to go to the bank without the fear of not being able to get your money. What they received is continued torture and brutality, absence of almost all commodities, continued hyper- inflation and failure of the African Union to step up to the plate and help their suffering neighbours.

Most people are now finding it useless to continue to go to work. A Zimbabwean worker in Bulawayo, the second largest city in Zimbabwe, has resorted to staying at home as they have found it pointless

to continue to go to work and earn the equivalent to USD5 that ultimately will be unable to pay rent or even be enough for transportation to work, not to mention purchasing food.

Farai, a student based in the resort town of Victoria Falls said she receives USD1 as a government grant for their studies; however her rent expenses are now USD20, payment has been requested to be in US dollars, due to the instability of the local currency. She has been left with no choice than to pack her belongings and make her way back home, to yet another hopeless situation.

Everyone has similar or even worse accounts of life in Zimbabwe after the elections. How long should the people of Zimbabwe be left to suffer, how far must they be asked to bend before they break in