If you were having coffee with me, I would welcome you into my tangle of words… Do you still wear face masks or not? God thing those are not necessary in this space.
So, dirty money, you are suppose to wash it right?…. I always picture money laundry involving running loads of dirty money through the laundromat. I am fairly sure that you know Zimbabwe is currently a multi-currency state which is just a fancy way of saying over 70% of our local transactions are now in United States Dollar, even though the government insists we are not dollarising (yet it gazettes official prices in USD). Anyway for some strange reason people will refuse soiled or damaged notes, its crazy.. is that a thing anywhere else? Do tell.
Sometimes I find myself performing emergency surgery on notes that feels low key like being a counterfeiter… the evil genius in me is amused at how easy it is to print one’s own money… But you would have to be careful about it… Just the past week the police busted members of a counterfeit syndicate…
If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that instead of money laundering, I did do some real laundry this weekend. Judging from the clothes on the line I have penchant for dark colours… They don’t stain easily ha! Although now I being haunted by unironed laundry… Of late the electricity blues seem to be on steroids… I am almost tempted to call the power utility company and ask if they are still in business.
During the beginning of the week, someone made a joke that the power outage increase coincided with an explosive documentary by Al Jazeera exposing corruption was suppose to screen. Anyway for reasons not made public, Aljazeera postponed the documentary and it remains unscreened.
We are left to speculate as to why? Technical difficulties? Could it be that the long arm of the government got to them and made an offer they couldn’t refuse?… What if there was never a documentary and it was a get rich gimmick where they threaten an exposè and get paid off?
If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that ever since Al Jazeera announced the documentary on corruption, money laundry and gold smuggling, the government has been in overdrive to distance itself from corruption in typical Shakespearen “Mr Government Man you doth protest too much”
I would have not paid much attention to this documentary had it not been that everywhere I turn I seem to find it being mentioned. There’s plenty of businesses which do not seem profitable enough to finance their lifestyles – over the weekend artist Winky D whose song Ibotso references corruption and looting of resources was removed from the stage during a performance by the police soon as he sang the controversial song.
Sing about corruption and get arrested but walk around with smuggled gold in your handbag and go scot free. There once was a lady caught with 6kg of gold in her handbag… wrote about it in a yesteryear article: Coffee With Gold.. The Reserve Bank has also issued a strongly worded rebuttal to the Al Jazeera documentary…
I totally agree Zimbabwe cant be the laundromat of Southern Africa, I mean have never seen wads of notes being hung out to dry in public. Besides, if there was all that money floating around, wouldn’t it show? We wouldn’t need to prove how seriously we wanted a job being made to do Amazing Race type interviews…
So apparently its suppose to test one’s drive, motivation and how one deals with challenges. The winning candidate took a taxi and got the job.
On one hand, I sort of understand the reasoning behind it, the challenges they throw at potential candidates, since it’s a sales and marketing gig, you need people committed to getting the sales, but on the other hand, what in the world?… This is just so ….. cant think of anything polite to say…. What are your thoughts?
If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that the remnants of Cyclone Freddy strengthened into yet another cyclone currently in the Mozambican channel continuing its long running streak. Initially it was projected to move away from mainland Africa but looks like it changed its mind…
What’s been going on in your neck of the woods?
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