HARARE, 14 April 2009 (IRIN): The demise of Zimbabwe’s local currency, the Zimbabwe dollar, and the reappearance of goods on the recently barren shop shelves is an equation that ensures the status quo: ordinary people are unable to feed themselves.
Foreign currency, whether US dollars, South African rands or Botswana pula, is the price paid for stocked shops, but there are few customers.
Zimbabwe’s unity government has suspended the use of the local currency for a year, but its death knell was sounded long before with an inflation rate estimated at trillions of percent ensuring its demise.
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