Zimbabwe’s Sunk To Armed Robbery For Loaves Of Bread
Bad economics will out you know. Adam Smith was right, there's an awful lot of ruin in a country. But not an unlimited amount....
You Can’t Even Get A Passport To Leave Zimbabwe – No Paper
As we reported some 6 weeks back, we've an interesting sign of the incompetence of Zimbabwean economic policy. It's not actually possible to leave...
What An Interesting Banking Situation In Ghana – Yes, It’s Politics
We do have to warn that our information source here is more than only slightly partial. But it does hang together, does make sense....
Zimbabwe’s Dollar Problem – It’s Still Not A Free Market Exchange Rate
The government of Zimbabwe is complaining about how exporters are not repatriating foreign currency earned from those exports. The government of Zimbabwe manipulates the...
Zimbabwe’s One Sensible Economic Move – Abolishing The Special Exchange Rate For Fuel Purchases
Something that's just so hard to get across to people is that special exemptions and treatments for certain parts of the economy just don't...
Uganda’s Miss Curvy Contest 2019 Has A Winner – Belinda Nansaasi
A couple of months back there was a little disturbance in the space time continuum as Uganda decided to try to popularise itself as...
Uganda’s Mariam Nabatanzi – One Woman, 38 Surviving Children
This is going to be close to some sort of global record, one Ugandan woman, Mariam Nabatanzi, has 38 surviving children. She's not aided...
Dear Zimbabwe, Stop Setting The Petrol Price Too Low, Yours Etc, Reality
If we could actually get the universe to write letters to people that's what the current one to the Zimbabwean Government would read :
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You Can’t Flee Zimbabwe – Government Out Of Money To Buy Passport Paper
There are certain bits of government that are actually necessary, there are certain things which simply must be imported to aid in doing those...
Not Good News For Zimbabwe – VP Mohadi Above The Law It Seems
A useful test of how well a country is doing is whether those who purport to rule it are subject to the same laws...