No Mandate Brown was pretty shit as far as Chancellor’s go but even he wasn’t as bad as Mugabe.
Robert Mugabe turned Zimbabwe from a prosperous, self-sufficient, largely democratic African nation into a bankrupt, decimated police state.
Official inflation is currently over 8,000% but independent experts reckon it’s more like 11,000%. The Zimbabwean Dollar has been restructured already this year but has rocketed back up to a ridiculous rate of exchange. The Zim$200,000 is worth about US.66 or £3.33 and is being phased out in favour of even higher denominations even though it was only introduced in July. Cash shortages have forced the Zimbabwean government to issue fresh supplies of new banknotes.
Zimbabwean government officials will now be supervising withdrawals and nobody will be allowed savings of more than Zim$50m (US$16,650 / £8,325).
Don’t worry though, not everyone in Zimbabwe lives in abject poverty as you can see …
This is one of Robert Mugabe’s homes.
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No, apparently it is our fault, even though we cannot actually do anything worthwhile as a country anymore, we can still manage to somehow ruin his!
Absolutely, it’s all our fault. Nothing at all to do with stealing all the farms off the white Zimbabwean farmers and giving them to black Zimbabweans who don’t know how to farm. That bloke is a fucking fruitcake.
He also did a similair thing with the mining companies, ‘nationalised’ them and gave them to his party cronies and that is why their economy is so fucked, they have lost all the foreign capital influx from the mines