My work mate came back from the bank today and informed us that the minimum bank balance is going up to $10 million as from 1 November – up from $5,000 currently. I suppose we should be grateful – at least this time they’re giving us advanced notice.

Meanwhile, we just got an email from a subscriber:

So many things are not right and it takes a brave person to say it. The kombis are ripping off the poor people as they raise prices uncontrollably each time they feel like. Here in Kadoma a journey of less than 8 kilometres cost $15,000 just imagine and nowhere to report to. What world are we living in and where is this going to take us.

The politrixians continue to block any progress, and you begin to wonder what the point of all of it is anyway.

As another subscriber wrote:

Does it matter who gets the ministry of Home Affairs? Years ago, the then minister, Moven Mahachi, told me the police commissioner was not reporting to him as he should. He knew he was not getting the truth, but couldn’t find out what the hidden truth was. If this is how they treat their own, can anyone else expect them to cooperate?

The Frustrated Citizens of Zimbabwe wrote to us recently – begging the question, what citizen isn’t frustrated these days:

I would like to put on record that I, along with probably the vast majority of Zimbabweans, am disgusted with the utter lack of advancement regarding the settlement of the political situation in this Country.

The last month or two has seen the total collapse of virtually every scrap of the last remnants of civilisation that was gasping for survival in Zimbabwe while the negotiators carry on ad infinitum as if nothing is amiss!!!

Surely the population of this Country demonstrated loudly and clearly that they do dot wish to be dominated any longer by the corrupt and evil ZANU PF. Just what right have they to “demand” certain Ministries? None whatsoever as far as we are all concerned!!

The economy has finally been TOTALLY destroyed. We consider that it is now completely beyond any form of resusitation. It is DEAD. Why cant you politians accept that and simply bury it? Why on earth Mugabe wants to hang on to it is beyond imagination. He and his cronies do not remotely have the capacity to revive any sort of economy whatsoever. For goodness sake just tell him that; although we must agree that his mentality is beyond reasoning!!

Further, no form of law and order has existed in Zimbabwe for many years now and will never return as long as ZANU PF have any sort of control over it. Even the most simple of simpletons can see that; except the most simplest of the lot; ZANU PF.

We are getting sick and tired of the situation. Everything has fallen to pieces. The Cities are a disgrace, cholera and worse simply waiting in the sidelines to break out causing a catastrophic situation. We cant even get our own money out of the banks any more, and when we finally manage to scrape a little cash up, there is no food to buy anyway. I think that the biggest achievement ever made by ZANU PF was the total destruction of the food chain, from the farms to the industrialists to the shops!! The time is more than ripe for MASSIVE public demonstrations!!

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