Published: 14 August 2013

As the country races towards year-end, the aftermath of Zanu-PF's heavily-contested election victory has brought uncertainty on a stuttering economy and could have a negative impact on millions of Zimbabweans reeling with poverty and a bleak future.

Long-suffering Zimbabweans are facing the nightmarish prospects of reliving the extreme hardships of 2008.

This comes against a backdrop of calls by the workers' representative body, Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions for government to declare a poverty datum line -linked minimum wage for all workers, which is pegged at $561 according to the consumer watchdog, Consumer Council of Zimbabwe's basket for July.

The CCZ basket depicts the cost of living in Zimbabwe and if it were adopted as the official Poverty Datum Line, millions of families would be classified as living in abject poverty.
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