Government invented a cash crisis last year by introducing bond notes. And, because of that weird creativity, Zimbabwe is now saddled with swelling corruption in the financial sector.
Whenever the word "corruption" is mentioned our imagination jumps to fat, chauffeur-driven hoodlums fixing tenders, diverting public funds and stealing millions of dollars. That is true, of course, but we often omit remembering that even grassroots citizens who we generally view as the victims can in fact make corruption a lifestyle. That is true where the cash crisis is concerned.
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