The Herald (Harare)
3 Juillet 2008
THE surge of Zimbabwe's inflation into three-digit levels has been greeted with lots of surprising enthusiasm, gleeful interest and even grim satisfaction by the "Zimbabwean media", both within and outside Zimbabwe, and by the "international Press" (of course, the "Western" news disseminators).
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THe author fails to appreciate the fact that the Zimbabwean government is equivalent to a Mafia. Why would a sound thinking person get his money through a charlatan like Grace Marufu? We do not want to bankroll Grace Marufu's shopping spree. She can go to hell. You don't care about us.
It's quite clear the author is either a Zanu sympathiser or, if he's serious,he's deranged just like George Charamba.It is not the duty of Zimbos in the diaspora to bankroll the dictatorship.The way for the gvt to generate forex is to have exporting industries,which the Lunatics running Zim have destroyed through misguided policies like "hondo yeminda"Let chinotimba produce cash crops to export!
There are two points that the author should keep in mind - a. the regime survives on the money sent into the country by the diaspora. It is well known that the RBZ is a significant purchaser of foreign currency on the parallel market. Lets see what would happen in the inward remittance of funds by the Diaspora was blocked by Zanu-pf. b. he/she should at least be honest enough to make it clear that Zimbabwe's 'triple digit'inflation of 1 000 per cent is the monthly rate, not the annualised rate which is 10 000 000 per cent!