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Mar 23, 2023 โ€ข 4 tweets โ€ข 2 min read
1. This๐Ÿ‘‡ is the issue. The Americans threatened SA banks with sanctions if they supply US$ cash to RBZ or any Zim Banks. Now, RBZ had no access to US$ cash needed to buy Gold from Makorokozasโ€ฆ Gold buying is CASH business & US wanted to kill it

news24.com/amp/fin24/econโ€ฆ 2. The decision by SA Banks had a massive impact on the gold industry in Zim.

Here๐Ÿ‘‡ RBZ Officials told the Small Scale Minera that they canโ€™t get HARD CASH to pay them.

It is from this perspective that the CASH RICH folks came in. As l said, they are MIDDLEMEN.
Mar 23, 2023 โ€ข 10 tweets โ€ข 3 min read
1. Watching the Aljazeera documentary, l was VERY INTERESTED in what Ambassador Angel was sayingโ€ฆ Many have scandalised his utterances, l COMPLETELY DISAGREE. In the main, he presented himself as A MAN OF GOD, a TRUE Prophet. He never sold himself as a criminal, NEVER 2. He told the folks that he does prophecies for Football Matches & even Electionsโ€ฆ. And that his prophecies are always on point. He said this to bolster his assertion that: President @edmnangagwa will win the election. In this, he was selling: political continuity to INVESTORS!
Mar 23, 2023 โ€ข 8 tweets โ€ข 2 min read
1. The Aljazeera documentary in Summary

1. Sanctions created a BROKE GOVT, Broke RBZ
2. Individuals with Big Cash come in with a plan: We buy gold
3. Gold bought from Makorokoza IN CASH (US$ Cash floods the country).
4. Some CASH-RICH folks use โ€œcreative waysโ€ to get more cash 2.

๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ผRBZ (Fidelity) does everything on board. Licenses gold buyers & dealers.

๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ผRBZโ€™s SIN is offering a lower price for gold, pushing some buyers/dealers to smuggle some of their gold.

Absolutely no evidence that RBZ facilitates any illegal activities whatsoever
Jun 30, 2022 โ€ข 11 tweets โ€ข 5 min read
1. The Gold Coins: How do they work?

These are not coins for day to day transactions in shops, they are โ€œsafeโ€ INVESTMENTS.

Instead of keeping cash that can suffer from inflation, u keep gold.

U can sell them in future at prevailing gold prices.

In short, STORING VALUE. 2. Do l take the coin home?

It depends on the @ReserveBankZIMโ€™s preferred arrangement but the best approach is for people to take home their coins if they want to or have them stored somewhere safer. Surely itโ€™s dangerous to keep such valuable coins in your house.
Jun 28, 2022 โ€ข 11 tweets โ€ข 4 min read
1. Mhofu, thatโ€™s๐Ÿ‘‡the price of gold in the past 12 months. Indeed itโ€™s a safe haven in times of economic uncertainty.

But on Zim, the question is: How are people preserving value now? Answer: by buying USD using ZWL & thus massive demand for USD & fall of ZWL.

Thread๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ผ Image 2. Whatโ€™s the purpose of the gold coins?

The @ReserveBankZIM says โ€œitโ€™s an alternative way for people to preserve valueโ€ โ€ฆ To me, this is the right approach. But THE VALUE OF WHAT? WHICH CURRENCY are people trying to preserve the value?

Itโ€™s definitely the ZWL, not USD.