Zim Diaspora: Case of fatigue, loss of interest

For many years, especially in the last 15 when the Zimbabwean economy took a sharp nosedive owing to Zanu PF’s classic malfeasance coupled with gross ineptitude, Zimbabweans in the Diaspora have done their level best in keeping together the bodies and souls of many in their immediate and extended families, as well as sending kids to school.

In the process, the Zanu PF dictatorship also benefitted through these inflows, particularly during former central bank governor, Gideon Gono’s time, when our relatives were forced to exchange hard currency for useless money not worth the paper it was printed on. The last form of this useless currency were bearer cheques, which the late Vice-President Simon Muzenda reportedly called burial cheques.

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