Just how bad can things get in Zim?

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I read somewhere that the Zim dollar is the only currency in the world with an expiry date...

Meanwhile, it seems Zambia turned round its economy in just seven or so years, and is experiencing an agricultural boom. The key was a sensible president and the fact that many displaced Zim farmers have settled there.

Everything seems to have gone quiet on the leadership front again. Last time we heard, the deal brokered between Magabe and opposition leader appeared to have fallen through. Mugabe wants to control the army and police which are obvious sticking points but also wants to have the major say over who dominates the key positions in parliament. What a surprise! This despot was effectively voted out yet by stealth has retained power.

When he took over the Zim dollar was the second in value only to the British pound.

So much for freedom liberator, Zim's subjects have no democratic rights and little, if any food on the table. But at least according to Mugabe they're free of their imperial tormentors.

He's literally bitten the hand which feeds his nation.

Good on Zambia for acting prudently.

It's nothing short of a tragedy that the world (predominantly African states) has dodged the Zimbabwean issue for as long as it has, allowing what are essentially criminals, to rape this once rich country and reduce it to a barren waste.
And all this because of the "respect" that African States grant a senior "freedom fighter" who played his part in overthrowing colonial rule! F.F.S.

Mugabe is a criminal, a thug and a meglomanic - and if the most respected African leader Nelson Mandela points this out, albeit subtely, How and WTF do others in the region allow the bandit to carry on demolishing the country.

I've travelled to Zimbabwe several times a year over the past 8 years, now reduced to once a year - and have seen the destruction first hand over that period of time.
When I first visited Harare, the Zim $ was around 10 to the US $ ... and you had to bargain hard to get the best rate!!
There were open markets, horse racing, sporting weekends and a genuine bustle about the place.
Not so now ... the place is nigh on a ghost town with huts and lean to corrugated sheds littering streets and roads within which starving families exist. Criminal.

Today no one takes the Zim $ locally - and it's a farce watching cab drivers pay for their thimble full of allocated petrol with bundles and bundles of worthless Zim $ notes.

All very sad - and the beautiful Shona people really don't deserve this suffering.

Yeah Lots of qunts in the world. Mugabe almost had it right for a very short time. I stress a very short time.

One only has to look at Botswana's success story. A limited but flourishing industry, prospering agro-political planning, a viable and strong currency and a leadership with the interests of the country at heart.

Mugabe needs to answer before the International Court at The Hague for crimes on humanity. And sooner or later probably will. He's using his military backing as a WMD.

At 84, time is running out for him to expiate major sins.

yes, a pity.

A bullet would be too kind and would automatically make him a martyr.
A trial and a guilty verdict followed by a welcome hanging would set an example.

Shame is, can't see either happening ... peacefully in a warm bed with comfortable surroundings is how that bastard will pop his clogs.

It's amazing and shameful that Sri Lanka are currently touring there. Was there even anyone at the airport to greet them at immigration?