The Herald (Harare)
1 January 2009
THE introduction of the Foreign Exchange Licensed Warehouses and Retail Shops facility authorising businesses to sell goods and services in foreign currency, and the mushrooming of other unlicensed outlets has dealt a near-death blow to the illegal foreign currency market as fewer people are changing their hard currency into Zimbabwe dollars.
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One has got to give the Herald points for trying. The complete collapse of the local currency and they dress it up as the rout of the black marketeers. Its a bit like Goebbles arguing that the Russians have stopped advancing when they were in the middle of Berlin.
The economy has clearly collapsed in Zimbabwe and the Herald is reporting bits and pieces of the puzzle. I agree they are doing as best as they can to put up a brave face.
Although the Herald is a mouth piece for Mugabe, a good number of their journalists are pretty decent. That said, now they have the grim task of writing about a country(Zimbabwe) whose economy has just collapsed. Slowly this is coming thru in their writings.
Mugabe pretty soon will begin to lose certain control of provinces because of distance and communication problems. Mugabe and his gov't have also lost control of the economy. The next for them will be to start using solders to source foreign currency from the public...Clearly 2009 will have to turn things over. Tsvangirai, now knows he does not have to join GNU.
If Tsvangirayi fails to join the government of national unity then his political career will be effectively over - he will have betrayed all the people who died and voted for him. The dollarisation of the economy is a very clever ploy by the ruling elite to extend its rule indefinitely - they have effectively taken over as the new foreign currency dealers, which means the chefs can sustain themselves for as long as they need to. In the meantime only the ordinary people will be suffering.
The mugabe mouth piece thinks the people of Zim are stupid, this article shows exactly what mugabe and regime think of there people!
Lets go through this wonder of this piece of trash journalism.
1. The blackmarket will always be around when there is turmoil as there is in Zimbabwe, there is no way it has even been affected,as people have been trading Zim for outside currency so they can actually by things beside it was just shown there is trading going on in fuel coupons in your own article you morons!
2.A survey by the herald would be as useful as democracy to a dictator!
3. Licensing people to shops to sell in outside currency means the economy is finished!
4. "Although there is an ongoing police operation targeting illegal foreign currency dealers in and around the central business district". Now we see how really stupid the herald is- "An illegal foreign currency dealer, Ms Gertrude Mahachi" and " Another dealer, Mr Michael Mapuranga".
Now let me get this straight, there is a police operation to stamp out illegal currency trading and two of these illegal trades give there full names and an interview to the state run herald! hahahahahahahahahaahahahah you idiots!