Criminal disregard for SA’s interests

Seductive talk of Zimbabwe adopting the rand as its official currency makes good headlines and even better politics. If Zimbabwe were allowed either to peg its currency to the rand (as in the monetary area of Swaziland, Namibia and Lesotho) or to use it as the official currency, Zimbabwe's inflation rate - for which no official data exist - would be slashed from the billions into double digits. This would put some certainty back into the system and start laying the groundw