Zimbabwe's next leader Emmerson Mnangagwa faces huge challenge to kickstart economy

To get under the skin of the problems facing the incoming Zimbabwean president, you need to get out of the big cities and into rural areas where the bulk of the population live.

Many eke out an existence in this economically crippled nation. People like Olivia Mshunga, who lives as the youngest of three generations on a small piece of land in Domboshava.

Planting ground nuts in the sandy soil, she wants President-designate Emmerson Mnangagwa to lift her out of subsistence farming.

She says: "We are struggling for a long time, no money, no jobs in Zimbabwe, so we want to change our life."

Her next door neighbour Viola Shamuyarira has similar hopes, while Ms Shamuyarira's 18-year-old daughter Yardley just wants a better wheelchair so she can get a job as a seamstress.

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Jobs are central to most Zimbabwean wish lists.

Chipiwa Pirokai doesn't need one for herself, but does for her two sons.

She says: "I carried my sons as a single parent, they've finished school now, but I've still got them at home."

Farming at this level is always tough, even when your oxen plough straight, and old habits die hard.

Emmanuel Neyakudya was clearly uneasy speaking about the new President or the old one.

"I'm afraid to answer your questions, politics is a dirty game," he told Sky News.

Zimbabwe's land does not only support agriculture beneath the soil - there are also minerals aplenty.

Justin Chingore provides transport for a nickel mine, but his workforce has been slashed from 40 to just 12.

He believes Mr Mnangagwa must get foreign investment into the country.

Mr Chingore said: "Our expectations of the new president is to open up to the markets, to bring in new investors."

Emmerson Mnangagwa and his party have much to do to raise this once bountiful country back to former glories.

Many of its citizens hover either side of the poverty line.