isn't it strange that the fall off the economic cliff coincided with the takeover of white farms in'03. could it possibly be that black farm workers/laborers and ZANU PF thugs didn't have the smarts to run the show? Nah, must be the US/ UK's collusion to keep the black man down. oh, and by the way, Judge, Obama already knows what a decillion is. it is his projected budget deficit for next year. but of course everybody knows, it is GWB's fault.
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Posts: 13619 | Location: Georgia | Registered: 28 October 2006
Bryan - plenty of mint bills for sale in Harare airport - only place I have sen them other than the local coin shop at the bottom end of 2nd st (sam Nyjoma - down towards railwy ave).
Posts: 3026 | Location: Zimbabwe | Registered: 23 July 2003
I'd love to have a few of those $100, $50 or $10 trillion notes myself, or even the old $2 or $5 bills like what mouse93 has photos of. If you bring any extras back I'll buy a few from you - just PM me. Thanks!
Glen
Posts: 282 | Location: Salt Lake City, Utah | Registered: 20 November 2007
damn, i wish i had known that when i spent 2 hours sitting in the Harare airport last Sept.!!! would love to have a few souvenirs of money that is worth less than toilet paper.
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Posts: 13619 | Location: Georgia | Registered: 28 October 2006
When I was in Zim in 2006 I handed a USD to the ladies at a gift shot in Bulawayo and asked them to make change in Zim dollars. They thought I was nuts, and this was before about 26 zeroes were hacked off the currency. Even at that, the non-bank exchange was about 375,000:1 - it took them 20 minutes to make the correct change and they handed it to me in a huge stack that I still have.
My only time in Africa was in Zimbabwe in May 1993. (I was there for a month) I remember being presented with my hotel bill in a hotel in Harare after a one night stay before flying out to the bush) It read something like $650 dollars - and I thought that was rather steep. The hotel desk clerk, probably noticing the shocked look on my face said quietly: " That's Zimbabwe dollars. It's much less in US dollars") It was but I really feel for people who live in Zimbabwe today. Not only a beautiful country but also very nice people.Too bad that incompetent and corrupt people in government have destroyed a nice place.
Posts: 680 | Location: NY | Registered: 10 July 2009
We'll see that same graph graph and picture in 20 years; but it will be Obama showing how the US Dollar declined against the Chinese Yuan.
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