Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Terrence Mukupe has said that Zimbabwe should adopt the South African Rand as its official currency. Mukupe said that this would help to stabilise the economy and ease the cash shortages. However, Mukupe admitted that Zimbabwe would find it very difficult to join the Rand Monetary Union due to the fact that it did not have its own currency. to Said Mukupe,
It’s a good thing to join the Rand Monetary Union as a temporary measure, the same way we adopted the bond notes to stabilise the economy.
The problem why we can’t join the rand union. it’s not that we don’t want. but what people forget is that you can’t join without your own currency. Because you come up with your own currency then they determine how much of your it you have in circulation. Then the amount of money you have in circulation is then somehow backed by the rand and the South African rand can then come into your country and float freely.
That it means is that as a country you now have access to deeper financial markets in South Africa such as bond markets which we don’t have here.
The Rand Monetary Union is made up of South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland. There have been numerous calls by various sectors for the government to adopt the Rand in order to make Zimbabwean industry more competitive.
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So you dont have a solution at all for this cash crisis problem ,last time you tried bond note and it failed ,Now you have come up with your clueless solution .Where are we heading to ,Deputy Minister !!!
yeah where are we heading to pliz Mr deputy f minister we want solutions
Dep Min if you do not have solutions to the monetary challenges, nyararai.
When we used in it in 2008 did we have our own currents?
yeah in 2008 we didn’t have our currency but we used rand why not now
ZANU PF created the problem for their own benefit. Right now it is these big Chefs who benefit from the erratic circulation of USD and the Bond. They want it like that forever. They will never do what should be done to remedy the situation. This guy suggests that we should adopt the Rand when he knows fully well that we cannot do so. Why is he wasting our time?