Zimbabwe: Shops shelves fill up but customers stay away

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Foreign currency, whether US dollars, South African rands or Botswana pula, is the price paid for stocked shops, but at the Domboshava shopping centre, a rural outpost about 40km north-east of the capital, Harare, there are few customers.

Tendai Shava moves from shelf to shelf admiring the goods, mostly imported from neighbouring South Africa, holding a soiled R20 note (worth about US$2) as she weighs her options.

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