The other face of the Zimbabwean crisis: the black market and dealers during Zimbabwe’s decade of economic meltdown, 2000-2008

Title: The other face of the Zimbabwean crisis: the black market and dealers during Zimbabwe’s decade of economic meltdown, 2000-2008
Creator: Chagonda, Tapiwa
Date: 2016
Type: Article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/93934
Identifier: uj:20410
Identifier: Citation: Chagonda, T. 2016. The other face of the Zimbabwean crisis: the black market and dealers during Zimbabwe’s decade of economic meltdown, 2000-2008
Description: Abstract: This paper explores the Zimbabwean crisis from the lens of dealers who benefitted from the chaotic and highly speculative Zimbabwean economy during the decade of crisis (2000-2008). The impression created by the bulk of the literature that has been published on Zimbabwe during its decade of crisis is that the political impasse and economic meltdown left a trail of impoverishment in the country. This paper challenges this widely held perception by arguing that even though the Zimbabwean crisis wreaked havoc for most Zimbabweans’ livelihood, this is not entirely true for some of the dealers who made a ‘killing’ from Zimbabwe’s burgeoning black market during the decade of crisis.
Language: English
Rights: ©2016, authors
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