It was the year 2009 when Zimbabwe abandoned printing its billion and trillion dollar notes. The preceding years before that were quite difficult. I vaguely remember them, since I was only a child, but years later we made paper planes from those same banknotes and built paper houses. Dollarisation had come and I remember the fairly good years that followed. However, quite recently the Zimbabwe dollar was reintroduced, pegged at $1 US dollar to $1 Zimbabwean dollar. This brought a lot of flashbacks to the painstaking years of the early 2000s, and people quickly braced themselves for another round of…
