The Collapse of Civilisation
'Zimbabwe's' collapse captured in
pictures
![Cars queuing for rationed fuel.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/675000/images/_676141_cars300.jpg)
Cars queuing for rationed fuel.
![More queues!!!](http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/675000/images/_676141_fuel_queue300.jpg)
More queues!!
![Sorry ! No fuel](http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/675000/images/_676141_fuel300.jpg)
Sorry! No fuel.
![A white family and their pet dogs who has
had their home stolen](http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/665000/images/_666045_seige.jpg)
A white family and their pet dogs who has
had their home stolen.
![Mugabe's thugs occupying a farm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/685000/images/_687254_vets300.jpg)
Mugabe's thugs occupying a farm
Damning Statistics:
Inflation 60%
Unemployment 50%
Relations with IMF suspended, $193 million
balance of payments support postponed
One quarter of 12m population infected by
HIV
Annual income per person $720
Population without sanitation 48%
Construction companies are operating at 57
percent of capacity
The country's main Hwange power station is
operating at two-thirds capacity
The tobacco harvest is expected to be down
at least 20 percent from last year.
The lack of aviation fuel has hit tourism
and horticultural export industries. Estimates are that firms in these sectors are losing
an average of $4,3-million a week in revenues.
Sources: World Bank, United Nations,
Zimbabwean National Chamber of Commerce
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