Others insist the prices are a clear sign of real seismic challenges underlying the Zimbabwean economy.

It only requires a single word from their leaders for the parties’ followers to freak out into political violence.

For the past two weeks, water supply across the country’s second largest city has been seriously constrained.

Street talk in Cowdray Park is that “Mthuli Ncube arrived way too late” to the party.

At 20 years, Chiyemu was an ideal candidate for the frontline, but “I was just lucky not to take part in that war”, he told NewsDay Weekender.

In the meantime, the face which had been viewed as offering hope for a better political future for Zimbabwe, Nelson Chamisa is sustaining his political crusade on social media.