BUSINESSES DITCH ZIMDOLLAR

GOVERNMENT yesterday threatened to unleash the Financial
Intelligence Unit (FIU) on retailers refusing payment in the local currency or
limiting the number of items consumers can buy in Zimdollar, which they say has
become highly unstable.

The local c…

GOVERNMENT yesterday threatened to unleash the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on retailers refusing payment in the local currency or limiting the number of items consumers can buy in Zimdollar, which they say has become highly unstable. The local currency, which was reintroduced in 2019 after a decade of multicurrency system, is trading at a 100% premium on the parallel market where it is