November 14, marks the 21st anniversary of “Black Friday”, the day the Zimbabwe dollar crashed in 1997. Here is how the Zimbabwe dollar collapsed from that fateful November day, and the many desperate policies enacted over the past two decades to try and end the crises that followed. 1997 – War veterans hold a series
Today, November 14, 2017 marks exactly 20 years to the day the Zimbabwe dollar crashed, a fate that is afflicting its modern day replacement the bond note, at an even faster rate. For two decades, successive Finance Ministers and central bank governors tried all sorts of trickery to save the currency; from dropping zeroes to