this coal—fired power station on the road to mbare is run out of spare parts.mood shifts quickly in mbare‘s streets, the entire neighbourhood is plunged into darkness — pierced only by fires, oil lamps and the lucky few with generators. richard is now taking me to a friend's house, it's about 7pm in the evening. i can tell you walking through mbare in the dark, well, it's a pretty weird experience. richard guides me down dark alleys and into a block originally built for single, male labourers. but now teeming with families, crammed into tiny spaces. thank you for letting us come into your home. yvonne mugombe and nine members of her family spanning three generations live on this one room. yvonne, in the dark at night, when there's no power, there's no lights, do you and the kids feel safe here? no, we don't feel safe. some of the people are being robbed at night. there are thieves all over this community. so we don't feel safe if there's no electricity. when zimbabwe's military post robert mugabe out of power two years ago, there was hope of an end to the era o

i went to mbare, a vast sprawling suburb on the edge of harare.are. i spoke to d oze ns of the edge of harare. i spoke to dozens of people, none of them had a job. employment remains a challenge. i'm glad to say we have put specific incentives to create incentives for young people in the coming years was not you have had two years already because of what has happened in those two years? well, there has to be reforms in place which we have done, which we have put in place stop i wanted to just get back to the direction we have taken. we sought in our transitional step programme to stabilise the economic environment and particularly, the deficit and the current account deficit. these two, in my view, have done very well. it is still a work in process and once these have been addressed, they will be a necessary impetus. stability, you say. currency crisis, your finance minister hasjust currency crisis, your finance minister has just introduced new zimbabwean dollar bills, to dollar and $5. i have seen the vast queues outside tanks because people are