Source: No exports, no more bond notes: Chinamasa – NewsDay Zimbabwe April 10, 2017
FINANCE minister Patrick Chinamasa last week said no additional bond notes would be released into the market to ease the cash crunch, saying the only solution lay in increasing exports.
by VENERANDA LANGA
Chinamasa made the remarks in Parliament after legislators pleaded with Treasury to release the entire $200 million support secured from Afreximbank to hedge the bond notes.
“I do not support that we should issue all the bond notes up to $200 million into the market,” he said.
“We made it very clear that the bond notes are only issued relative to exports – no exports, no bond notes in the market, and we are going to stick by that because they are coming in as an incentive to exports,” he said.
Mutasa Central MP Trevor Saruwaka (MDC-T) claimed people in the Diaspora were now discouraged from sending remittances because instead of giving out the 5% incentive, financial institutions were paying 3%, resulting in people being defrauded of $2 from every $100 deposited by Zimbabweans in the Diaspora.
Chinamasa said the issue raised by Saruwaka would be looked into and investigated.
Marondera Central MP Lawrence Katsiru (Zanu PF) also claimed brand new notes were being traded at Roadport by money dealers saying Chinamasa must look into the issue, which had contributed to shortages of money at the country’s banks.
“The issue is going to be investigated. What I know is that any bond notes issued are issued to commercial banks and not to individuals. What could be happening is that some people are issued with brand new bond notes when they withdraw at banks, and these will end up at Roadport in exchange for United States dollars,” Chinamasa said.
The country has been experiencing serious cash shortages, with long bank queues having resurfaced.
Chinamasa urged everyone in business to use point-of-sale machines and Zimbabweans to increase usage of plastic money.
COMMENTS
How very droll! Our brain damaged political representatives begging for more of the very poison that is killing us. Were one ever to try and disprove evolution this could be exhibit one.
zimbabwe have achieved yet another economic first: the first country to have both inflation and deflation at the same time. this is a feat not only of economics but also of semantics…. bravo sixpence – makaita.
Inflation is a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services – Wikipedia
Deflation is a contraction in the supply of circulated money within an economy – Investopedia
so we have less and less money around – see bank queues and businesses closing.
and at the same time we have widespread price increases in all goods, although some services are getting cheaper.
How did our government achieve this “global first”?
Simply put:
1) they emptied our accounts of US$ – which is why you can not draw your money from the bank.
2) they replaced them with ma-bondies – a worthless piece paper – and decreed by law that 1 ma-bondie was just the same as 1 US$.
3) business put up their prices since they are being paid in ma-bondies and not US$
and there you have it… failure 360.