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Zimbabwe

nutfinnnutfinn Member Posts: 12,808 ✭✭✭
edited January 2013 in General Discussion
Zimbabwe's economy plummeted at the turn of the millennium, after President Robert Mugabe began seizing white-owned farms.


Government account stands at $217 after paying public workers' salaries last week, the finance minister has said.


http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/01/2013130134525141101.html
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  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yay! My wife and I have more money than an entire country!
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  • firstharmonicfirstharmonic Member Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    At $217.00 Zimbabwe still has more money than the USA. All we have is what China will loan to us. [:(]
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  • MaxOHMSMaxOHMS Member Posts: 14,715
    edited November -1
    $217

    Will that buy a SLICE of bread there?
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  • TfloggerTflogger Member Posts: 3,397 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When you get rid of the workers, you get Detroit or Zimbabwe.
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  • gearheaddadgearheaddad Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rhodesia was a very wealthy African Country with a huge cattle industry.
    Now, It is Zimbabwe and they import all of their beef and they are broke.
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  • WulfmannWulfmann Member Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Vic Falls is nice but after that it is a stay far away from place

    Wulfmann
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    "Fools learn from their own mistakes. I learn from the mistakes of others"
    Otto von Bismarck
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  • minitruck83minitruck83 Member Posts: 5,369
    edited November -1
    "Biti said that left no choice but to ask the donors for cash.

    "We will be approaching the international community," he said"


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  • gearheaddadgearheaddad Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was just in South Africa and Namibia last Aug and Sept for 3 weeks hunting. They told me that the two Countries are about 96%+- black and about 98%+- of taxes come from whites............
    If anyone thinks racism is bad here in the States, they should see it there!
    Razor wire, electric fences, security cameras, on top of concrete walls surrounding private homes and guest houses, and armed guards patrolling the neighborhoods in groups of 4-5 in Johannesburg.
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    edited November -1
    They have a positive balance and this is seen as a crisis?
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    it's not quite bad enough yet for the America govt to insist it is the taxpayers duty to come to their rescue with few billion of china's money for which china will accept one of our national parks in lieu of payment
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  • ikedaikeda Member Posts: 450 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My son and I hunted there this past February. It was great, lots of animals and friendly people. But we stayed far from the capitol.
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  • cavman 69cavman 69 Member Posts: 654 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    it used to be called "the bread basket of africa". now they have 11 million percent inflation.
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  • CoolhandLukeCoolhandLuke Member Posts: 7,826 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds like Haiti is in Africa.
    We have to fight so we can run away.
    Capt. Jack Sparrow.
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  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,059 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got to love countries where their decimal point moves like spot prices on gold daily.

    Is that the country that has a Billion Dollar bills in circulation? That's rolling heavy.
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  • ikedaikeda Member Posts: 450 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The unofficial/official currency is now the dollar. The Zimbabwe bills are literally used for toilet paper.
    Also it is all paper money, no coins in circulation
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    edited November -1
    I just don't get the concern. They're 15 trillion dollars richer than our country. Seems like a fair bit of wealth to me.
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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