Louise Watt
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/ 13 June 2007

Zimbabwean exiles turn to the web

Inflation in Zimbabwe is soaring, and its citizens abroad are pitching in to help relatives at home — giving part of their earnings in South Africa, for example, to Zimbabwean businessmen there, who then truck food, cooking oil and other scarcities across the border. Now a high-tech solution has arrived, with internet-based companies allowing Zimbabweans across the globe to go online to buy their loved ones everything from fuel to food.