babwe.
We are all shocked by the alarming rapid plunge of the Zimdollar against the British pound.
Its common knowledge in the current economic crisis that it is the foreign currency obtained on the parallel market that has kept the country running. The government now openly sources it through black market. There is no doubt where availability and demand of forex dictates the rate of exchange, the parallel market rate is the official rate.
The following rates give an idea of how fast the economy is crumbling under this now desperate repressive regime.
Date Rate against pound £
27 June 2006 $690 000
21 June 2006 $630 000
07 June 2006 $500 000
24 May 2006 $390 000
19 May 2006 $360 000
04 April 2006 $330 000
30 March 2006 $350 000
06 March 2006 $310 000
22 Feb 2006 $300 000
20 Feb 2006 $280 000
02 Feb 2006 $230 000
19 Jan 2006 $185 000
09 Jan 2006 $155 000
18 Dec 2005 $135 000
12 Nov 2005 $135 000
02 Oct 2005 $140 000
25 Sept 2005 $108 000
18 Sept 2005 $ 93 000
05 Sept 2005 $ 74 000
23 Aug 2005 $ 65 000
14 Aug 2005 $ 60 000
04 Aug 2005 $ 55 000
28 July 2005 $ 50 000
11 July 2005 $ 37 000
30 June 2005 $ 33 000
01 June 2005 $ 30 000
25 May 2005 $ 34 000
04 May 2005 $ 31 500
27 April 2005 $ 29 500
04 April 2005 $ 24 000
07 March 2005 $ 21 000
24 Feb 2005 $ 19 700
03 Feb 2005 $ 15 500
27 Jan 2005 $ 14 800
12 Jan 2005 $ 14 400
An analytical look at this massive plunging of the Zimbabwe dollar against the sterling pound tells a lot about the prevailing state of the economy, gives a rough prediction of the hard times to come and is also a clear testimony of this illegal government s incompetence ,well documented mismanagement ,short sighted absurd economic policies and incapability of this regime in thinking of a turnaround plan to address the economic problems bedevilling our beloved but ruined country. I CHIMINO, Enfield UK
6.7.2006
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Forex Rates 06-07-06
EDITOR - Thank you for giving us the platform to express our views and opinions through your newspaper .The crackdown on press freedom and the stifling of freedom of expression by the repressive regime has resulted in limited media outlets where we can freely speak out on the sad developments in Zim