How will the latest new currency be any different, how will it turn around 24 years of mess?
Oh dear, what an embarrassing situation unfolded in Zimbabwe over the past fortnight. Subsequent to an absolutely chaotic 10 days following the announcement by the government of a new currency and the immediate collapse of all banking and other payment systems, we quickly became the laughing stock.
As we all tried to get our heads around what had happened, and how we were going to pay bills with old money no one wanted and new money that hadn’t even been released yet, out came Reserve Bank Governor John Mushayavanhu to stir the pot a bit more. One press report quoted a currency dealer as saying: “We are all in this mess together. The police can come to assault us … but after work they will come to us asking for the US dollars.”
How do our leaders think we have all survived these years of mayhem? And how do they think so many people got so rich so quickly? There were no ZiGs anywhere by mid-morning. No one had them but everyone was looking, asking, waiting, standing around.With business as unusual as ever, I went to seek out a friend who I knew was in trouble with pain that haunts her day and night.
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