Zimbabwe Adopts Chinese Yuan As Legal Tender Write Off $40 Million Debt

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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe (L) and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping -Diego Azubel / Reuters

Zimbabwe has announced that it will make the Chinese yuan legal tender after Beijing confirmed it would cancel $40m in debts.

“They [China] said they are cancelling our debts that are maturing this year and we are in the process of finalising the debt instruments and calculating the debts,” minister Patrick Chinamasa said in a statement.

 

Useless: The Zimbabwean dollar

Chinamasa also announced that Zimbabwe will officially make the Chinese yuan legal tender as it seeks to increase trade with Beijing.

Zimbabwe abandoned its own dollar in 2009 after hyperinflation, which had peaked at around 500bn%, rendered it unusable.

It then started using a slew of foreign currencies, including the US dollar and the South African rand.

The yuan was later added to the basket of the foreign currencies, but its use had not been approved yet for public transactions in the market dominated by the greenback.

Use of the yuan “will be a function of trade between China and Zimbabwe and acceptability with customers in Zimbabwe,” the minister said.

 

2 Comments
  1. Bomi says

    PékÉlè, pèkèlè, árúgbó jé gbésè…

    One hundred trillion dollars…. Kìlódé
    Useless Economy.

  2. efkaynation says

    Colonial masters will never stop..

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