In Zimbabwe it costs an average monthly salary just to fill up your car with petrol. Electricity prices have quadrupled and inflation is rampant. All of which adds up to the country's worst economic crisis in a decade -- and recollections of the worst days under Robert Mugabe. So how are people coping? This middle-aged single mother gave us her story -- we've not named her for security reasons.

(Picture: Zimbabwe fuel protests women sit on blue gas cannisters in a line. Credit: REUTERS/Philimon)