Zimbabwe's new ZiG likely doomed by lack of transparency
Economic mismanagement has stripped citizens’ trust in the government and threatens the new currency’s viability.
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Economic mismanagement has stripped citizens’ trust in the government and threatens the new currency’s viability.
In the past two years, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights have recorded 40 cases of citizens being arrested and prosecuted on charges of undermining or insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
There are about 178,000 Zimbabwean Exemption Permit holders, a number that could easily swell. The magnitude of the decision to terminate the ZEP programme cannot be overstated.
Zimbabwean election: Comprehensive electoral reform is just one pillar of the necessary political reforms South Africa requires.
This spring comes with a foreboding. We may have escaped the total collapse of the electricity grid, but not the collapse of the climate.