Once solid Zimbabwe economy is in free fall

A customer strolls past fruit and vegetable shelves while shopping in a groceries store in Zimbabwe's capital Harare on July 15, 2019. PHOTO | AFP

Another looming drought, worsening foreign currency shortage and 18-hour rolling power cuts are set to push Zimbabwe’s troubled economy closer to the precipice this year, experts warn.

The once formidable economy has been lurching from one crisis to another since the turn of the Millennium when the government started repossessing fertile land from the white minority for redistribution to landless blacks.