What a confusing statement. The governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, John Mangudya said this:
People should not get confused. In the bank, the RTGS balances have the same value with the USD but when one wants forex at the bank, then it changes and its value is determined by the rate prevailing at that particular bank.
We have not devalued the RTGS balances, but allowed people to access the forex at a rate which is competitive and allows the economy to grow
Your $1 000 in the bank is still $1 000. However, when you want to get the USD$, the rate and value will be determined by the market
Meaningless
The above statement is meaningless to say the least. The value of the newly created RTGS dollars is not equal to the value of US dollars. Mangudya appears to still want to attempt saving face. It’s too late for that now, he should accept the reality. In fact his monetary policy statement already acknowledges this reality and he himself admitted his guilt in insisting the money in our bank accounts was equal to Us dollars.
Yes he didn’t devalue the bond
It’s true that the RBZ did not devalue the bond note but they have floated it to trade against other currencies. It is no longer what they used to call a surrogate currency (whatever that was). Devaluation will come from the market, indeed this has happened already when the banks agreed to start off the trade at USD1 : RTGS2.50.
The truth is the market devalued the money much earlier, it’s just that the true market existed outside formal banking systems, the so called black market. Of course, the government had long since stolen our money.
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What a first class Jackass this guy is. You buggers STOLE the peoples money the day you brought out the Bond note & you the Banks allowed this thieving Government to do this to us .Plain & Simple .All you MFs deserve a horrible death .
No need to say worse stuff to confirm failure. Hope it ain’t nothing to do with age coz m also approaching there and kinda scared if m gonna also lose it. But u letting me down coz had so much confidence in u guys
Did this man get “educated” at the same school as Zuma? What a foolish statement.
I can’t believe I’m saying this but he makes sense. You just need to calm down to understand him.
Ahahahahahahaha, this is a good one.
Am trying… Please help me understand too
https://startupbiz.co.zw/mangudyas-11-in-the-bank-statement-explained/
There you go. SI 33 2019 is the key.
Yeah I read the SI. I understood the conversion at the commencement of the SI but afterwards it still doesn’t make sense. I guess you put it well that we should ignore Mangudya’s play with words, his double speak
In effect his words are taken by people to mean that RTGS$ are equivalent to US$ but what the man is trying to say is your USD convert to RTGS$ at 1:1 so same ‘value” (amount).
Exaplain the parable tinzwe
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“…The governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, John Mangudys said this:..” MANGUDYS ? hahahaha
Sorry, and thanks
Pfee-economics is so confusing!!!!!
Did he really say this or you’re just playing. ..do you have v11s
He said it
v11s to be availed later