1 packet viennas (2007) = 39,880 houses (1985)
I just saw a packet of viennas for Z$997 000, yes you got it – nine hundred and ninety seven thousand dollars. If you consider that Gono(rrhea) slashed three zeros from our currency less than a year ago, that makes it in reality Z$997 million. Ok, I know that viennas have always been a bit of a luxury, but the meltdown is now nuclear reactor bubbling.
Please note that I said I SAW the viennas, because who the hell is going to pay that?
I just stared in open mouthed amazement. My house only cost me Z$25 000 in 1985, 4 bedrooms, garden, good location. In today’s terms that would be Z$25! So one packet of viennas today could have bought you 39,880 houses just twenty years ago!
Yes, we can all have a giggle at the numbers while sitting comfortably at our office computers, but my fear is lurking close to the surface. What are we going to do? How will this end? Will there be violence on the street or are we going to have a nation of gaunt, starving faces?
June 27th, 2007 13:42
How does that work though?
I mean, where are people getting the money from to pay $997,000 for a packet of (what I assume are biscuits?)
Do wages go up daily? Who has that kind of savings?
July 4th, 2007 17:30
Viennas are a type of sausage. And it doesn’t work at all S. We get paid, then we run to spend our pay as soon as we can because it loses value before we get to the shops. Hyperinflation is terrible. Wages don’t go up daily, and when they do, employers are in a bad way because they may have to lay people off. Profits drop as people buy less and less, businesses shut and well, you can imagine, it is as we write it here.
Hope (Sokwanele blogger)
July 8th, 2007 02:50
This is what Bush and the Republicans are doing to the poor, the black, and the gays in fascist Amerika. But no one cares because America is the most hated country, worse than Hitler’s Germany. Some day America will be as good as Zimbabwe is now.
July 7th, 2007 17:03
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