Farai Dziva|Crisis Group’s Senior Consultant for Southern Africa, Piers Pigou has lamented the erosion of civil servants’ salaries as a result of inflation.

Writing on social media on Wednesday, Pigou said: “If you have the USD, and only a select do, prices of goods and services are in fact very reasonable; BUT the majority are reliant on this “funny money”, the RTGS $ whose value continues to erode and every day most Zimbabweans see their cost of living climb. Is there an end in sight?”

Journalist and political analyst Hopewell Chin’ono also said:
“To fully understand what is happening to Mthuli Ncube’s economy daily, you should look at the price of goods and the exchange rate.
Bread is now at RTGS$7, that means a teacher’s salary is now worth 49 loaves of bread or 15 bottles of Mazoe.Tomorrow it will be worth fewer loaves!”