President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday vowed that his government will not abandon the Zimbabwe dollar for other currencies.
Mnangagwa made the remarks when he addressed a rally at Bumhira Secondary School in Nyanga North after having commissioned Nyakomba Irrigation Scheme earlier in the day. He said:
To prosper as a nation, we must have our own currency. We cannot develop and prosper without our own currency. They may plot to destroy our currency, whatever they do, let me make it categorically clear — we will not go back on the currency issue.
We will continue until our currency stabilises and strengthens. It is only with our local currency that we can develop as a nation.
The American currency can only develop America, the Rand can only develop South Africa, the Pula can only develop Botswana, the Kwacha can only develop Zambia and the metical can only develop Mozambique.
And in Zimbabwe, can we continue to depend on other people’s currencies? No. We will continue to promote our own currency.
The Zimbabwe dollar was reintroduced over a year ago as the “RTGS Dollar” and was initially used alongside other currencies.
However, in June the government banned the use of other currencies, making the Zimbabwe dollar the sole legal tender.
The local currency has been losing value alarmingly with some government departments demanding payment for services in foreign currency.
That is fine if you could get it from your bank in notes not coins
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Mr President you Right 1000 percent I give you don’t allow those criminal to down grade Zim keep our currency p proudly Zimbabwean in whatever the case maybe don’t forced by the people who think Zimbabwe is America
Look Malawian kwatsha is very low that Zim currency but people crying for nothing ,what you should do Mr President is to give the increase the salary to people