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*Zimbabwe Should Immediately Redollarise - Biti*

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Former Finance Minister, Tendai Biti, says the government should urgently implement measures to save the economy after the value on the local currency to the US dollar has nosedived on the parallel market.

While officially the exchange rate is at 1:25, on the parallel market it has gone beyond 1:60.

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Biti says the government, should, among other things, immediately dollarise, scrap export surrender requirements, and revert back to cash budgeting and fiscal consolidation. Said Biti:

> With the US$ now trading above 65 on the parallel market, it is time the regime accepted the failure beyond any shadow of a doubt of its monetary and exchange rate policies.

> We have constantly argued that you can rig everything else but not the economy. An urgent reset is required. The regime must

Immediately dollarise through the repeal of Finance Act No 2 of 2019
Scrap export surrender requirements
Revert back to cash budgeting and fiscal consolidation
Deal with corruption urgently particularly breaking the Sakunda/Trafigura /Command Agriculture axis.
Provide an Urgent Fiscal Plan with international backing.
Normalise and demobilize infrastructure of repression
More importantly, there must be an urgent political solution.

> The crises of legitimacy need resolution as a matter of urgency. The regime must ship out to allow.

On Wednesday, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya said that at a time when Zimbabwe has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, it has been left out of relief loan funds for the pandemic because it owed the World Bank and African Development Bank.

This, according to the central bank chief, means that Zimbabwe is now like a stepchild or orphan as it is considered high risk.

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