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FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube<\/a> is all but postponing inevitable economic implosion by introducing a new currency that is not backed by production, opposition Freezim Congress party leader Joseph Makamba Busha said Friday.<\/p>\n

Government this week announced new notes and coins will soon be brought into circulation as part of efforts to restore the local currency that was dumped years back.<\/p>\n

In June this year, government announced the return of the local currency and discontinued a decade long policy of using a basket of multi-currencies dominated by the US dollar.<\/p>\n

However, at the time, no notes or coins were issued but government indicated the surrogate currency \u2013 the bond note \u2013 was to continue being used as a medium of exchange.<\/p>\n

Busha said the decision was only meant to delay the inevitable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new currency they want to introduce I don\u2019t think it will solve any problem because it is not backed by production.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, we need to make sure that there is production, proper governance structures and a coherence strategy that will take Zimbabwe out of its financial problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new currency for me is just a reinvention where basically they are just buying time and they are trying to hoodwink us and tell us that things will be better,\u201d said Busha.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings will never be better until Zanu PF and its entire system are not given the responsibilities to manage the affairs of this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Busha, a mathematics expert, said Ncube was not fit to be a Minister of Finance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey got us a Minister who is not truthful. He comes to say we have surpluses yet we don\u2019t have medicines. Our schools and the entire infrastructure are collapsing,\u201d the opposition leader said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to urge Professor Mthuli Ncube who I believe is actually a good academic but is not a business man to be truthful.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he cannot do the job, I am sure the National University of Science and Technology or one of the universities will give him a good course,\u201d said the Freezim Congress leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube is all but postponing inevitable economic implosion by introducing a new currency that is not backed by production, opposition Freezim Congress party leader Joseph Makamba Busha said Friday. 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