Addressing the Zanu PF Extraordinary congress in Harare on Friday  the Reserve Bank  of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono accused  top government officials of causing the  artificial cash shortages by running illegal foreign currency exchange syndicates.Gono said  he is going to surprise  these cash barons by unveiling a secret economic reform at an unnamed date.
 Due  to Gono’s sentiments rumuors has been flittering in the black-market sector since Friday evening that the country’s currency  is going to be changed anytime before Christmas and  new  currency will be unveiled.
 Several Osiphatelinis  who spoke  to The Zimbabwean on Saturday from the notorious known World Bank located at corner Fort Street and Fifth Avenue in Bulawayo said they don’t know what to do with hordes of local currency in their hands if Gono is to change money before Christmas.
 We surely don’t know  what to do with these hordes of cash in our hands  if the RBZ is going to change currency before Christmas because this the period our business is at peak said Mildred Ncube one of the illegal foreign currency dealer operating from World Bank.
 Ester Makuwe  another illegal foreign currency dealer said if the  currency is going to be changed   before Christmas she will run out of business as most of her clients who are from South Africa are now about flock in for holiday.
 If Gono changes currency I will be definitely out of business my  clients usually they come during Christmas period from South Africa so they will find me without local currency to give them said Makuwe. Â
15.12.2007
14:08
Panic grips “World Bank”
Panic grips "World Bank"
BULAWAYO---Panic has gripped among the illegal foreign currency dealers popularly known as Osiphatheleni in Bulawayo as rumours  for currency  change  is filtering.