news.bbc.co.uk — Zimbabwe is to start circulating a new 200,000 Zimbabwe dollar note, in a bid to tackle the country's inflation, the highest in the world. The official annual rate of inflation in Zimbabwe is nearing 5,000%.
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bhimaAug 1, 2007
Zimbabwe's land distribution scheme has nothing to do with socialism... in fact *nothing* Zimbabwe's government does is even close to socialist.
bhimaAug 1, 2007
I've got the bill from a million dollar lunch stuck to my fridge from my trip to Zimbabwe last summer. Unbelievable
orvtechAug 1, 2007
it is not 'mine'.
chandlerAug 1, 2007
I didn't see this anywhere -- 1 ZWD = 0.00400000 USD (xe.net)200,000.00 ZWD = 800.000 USD
jdeppAug 1, 2007
I can understand the Zimbabweans wanting land from white farmers - the real problem is the people who gained the confiscated farms to were chosen based on party loyalty rather than if they wanted to be farmers - the new owners sold off equipment in an orgy of asset stripping, or turned out to be plain incompetent.
fuselageAug 1, 2007
look at the Zimbabwean flag, the red star specifically. Every important government crony is addressed as 'Comrade'
renniksAug 2, 2007
So you're all for Race based confiscation and redistribution then huh? The fact of the matter is that those farmers have been on that land for quite some time and was the glue that was holding that country together. When the farms were taken from the white farmers and given to people who were not knowledgeable and/or incompetent of how farming operations should run, the farms grew into vast wastelands and fell into disrepair. Once this happened, the food dried up, the people began starving, and prices on imports of food soared because of that whole supply demand thing. So while you may think that good ol' Bob was sticking it to whitey real good, his short sighted racist/ignorant policies signed the death warrant to thousands of black people who are now dying slowing of starvation. While most of the white farms moved to Mozambique to start from scratch in a country that appreciated their skills.