our economy continues to suffer due to corruption

Zimbabwe’s economy suffers from poverty, unemployment, hyperinflation and corruption. with the increase rate of corruption from the officials who will then change the situation in Zimbabwe. this is one of the many factors underlying the distress of the Zimbabwean economy is the magnitude of corruption that prevails in almost all sectors. With Zimbabwe’s economy having withered and increasingly decimated for most of 15 years, save for some very modest recovery between 2009 and 2011, Zimbabwean poverty is intense.Unemployment has risen to about 80%. Significantly, more than half of the population is struggling to survive on incomes very markedly below the poverty datum line. Thousands are homeless and cannot afford education for their children, while even more cannot afford health care.The streets of cities and towns have many beggars who can also be found loitering at traffic-light intersections, and outside supermarkets and banks. Most community-service trusts and other organisations are strapped for cash, as need for their aid and assistance intensify exponentially, while traditional donors become less and less able to provide for them due to financial problems in their home countries. International donors are battling to overcome the consequences of economic and financial recession in most first-world countries. Meanwhile, Zimbabwean enterprises struggle to survive the deluge of the country’s ills.Therefore, more and more Zimbabweans have resorted to crime and corruption in their desperate efforts to make ends meet. They justify their actions on the basis of survival unlike national leaders who resort to crime and corruption for self-enrichment. A stunning example of corruption was the disclosure approximately 16 months ago that the public service was employing more than 40 000 “ghost workers”. This involved having fictitious names on the government’s payroll, where the creators of this bogus payroll are the beneficiaries of the monthly pay-cheques. In sofar as known, a year after that disclosure, ghost-worker payments are still being effected.Yet another prevailing corrupt practice is that pursued by some members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police. Whilst many police officers fulfill their duties with utmost probity and correctness, there are those who blatantly resort to corrupt practices. All too frequently, one hears of spurious charges being imposed at road blocks (mainly on national highways) for specious offences.
Those range from demands that drivers have reflective vests — whereas no such requirement has been gazetted, in contrast to the valid gazetting of the requirement every vehicle must have fire extinguishers and red warning triangles — to allegations of over-speeding, or traversing continuous centre-lines where no such lines exist. Not only are spot fines unlawfully imposed, but the payment of those fines is pocketed by the police officer, without the issue of a receipt.