Zim inflation soars to 11-million percent

Clearly the Mugabe regime has proved itself to be unfit to operate a cash economy. They are only fit to operate a barter system like you had in pre-literate primitive societies.

i'm guessing you're a lot like bob barr -- grew up to find that a not-so-distant ancestor was black, and therefore you have to trash, in unnecessary ways, black people at every turn.

if you have US$, prices haven't moved very much. ditto for zambian kwacha. [of course, it says a lot about the state of your economy when *zambian* money is being traded as hard currency.]

the inflation isn't particularly different from late 80s, early 90s brazil. but since you were educated in south africa, you wouldn't know that. [psst, brazil was run exclusively by white people until, fairly recently. while cardoso made jokes about having a foot in the kitchen, he probably did not, which means that lula is the first leader of the place in 500 years to readily acknowledge black ancestry, even though he doesn't have that much either. given that there are more black people in brazil than any country except nigeria... you should be badmouthing the place all the time. cmon man, spread around the racist lulz.]

To Jon Low, please find out where the use of currency was first introduced. Just to correct you no your baises. The great material wealth of Great Zimbabwe may have been its downfall. After its discovery in the 1870s European adventurers arrived in droves. The rumor started that Zimbabwe was the legendary "Land of Ophir", the source of King Solomon's gold. You should know that Queen Sheba who took gold, spices and other precious goods was from Graet Zimbabwe, so when you talk of primitive, what do you mean. The Europeans could not believe that the African "savages" could build in stone. And so, unfortunately, not much is left of anything since the diggers, looters, and murderers have come and gone. So the Europeans brought poverty to these regions not wealth. About 150 of these great ruins similar to Great Zimbabwe exist today. Many of these have been severely impacted and almost demolished, at least 50, as a result of the hunger for gold by Europeans.

Yet, there are no ruins like these anywhere else in the world. The smallstone construction gives them immense power in the vast setting of Africa. Large building blocks, curiously, would be dwarfed by the settings, but the cumulative effect of thousands of small, pilled fragments is of concentrated human effort.

It is also possible that Zimbabwe was a result of surplus wealth from the East African gold trade. External trade existed between Great Zimbabwe and Sofala on the southern coast of what is now Mozambique. Sofala was an important port where goods from India, China and the Islamic world were imported and then sent into the interior, which in turn exported products from inner Africa. Gold was the most sought after export, but other exports such as copper played a role also. Imports were primarily cloth, glass beads and ceramics. Items found at Great Zimbabwe include a glazed Persian bowl from the 13th or 14th century, Chinese celedon dishes, sherds from a Chinese stoneware vessel, and fragments of engraved and painted Near Eastern glass. Around the 14th century, Great Zimbabwe was probably in direct contact with the trading cities of the East African Coast. There was a sudden increase in building activity there at that time, as there was in the cities on the East African Coast. Some believe the decline of Great Zimbabwe during the 15th century was in direct relationship with the decline of coastal cities. Great Zimbabwe declined probably due to a number of factors including environmental degradation and a decline in the gold trade. The legacy of the region however attests to the ingenuity and political strength of its African ancestors, the Shona, and of Africans everywhere.

So we know that you do not like the truth, for its known that all the wealth in Europe was taken from Africa, so they are trying to destroy Mugabe by making sure his economy collapses so as to say African do not do without Europaeans, history should not be ignored and we should learn from it.

In light of what (hasn't) happened, and Zanu's statement that it will be convening parliament and a govt of National Unity with Mutambara, I do hope you are looking forward to another 4 MILLION starving zims flooding over your border.

And looking forward to having the world watch SA try and deport them to a racist dictatorship deliberately starving them to death, and setting fire to them as "foreigners" and asking the rest for bribes for their paperwork, or they can work as prostitutes for all the tourists in the World Cup.

Because this is the "African Solution to an African Problem."