As Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa offers compensation to farmers once affected by the land grabs that plunged the country into economic ruin, police step up their crackdown on dissent, arresting journalists and human rights activists. Once dubbed ‘Africa’s breadbasket’, Zimbabwe is facing a long-standing political and economic crisis and hope of the turnaround promised by the president three years ago is fading fast. Carte Blanche investigates how people are surviving amid crippling inflation and severe shortages of everyday necessities.
