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South Africans have long known that crime in our country is out of control. Corruption and fraud are all around us, and every day there are numerous murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries, thefts, car hi-jackings and so on.
So it should not come as a surprise that Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change, and two MDC officials were robbed in Johannesburg.
According to the police, "The robbers stole the three men's bags, laptops, cellphones and an undisclosed amount of Zimbabwe dollars."
Now hold on a minute. Bags can be sold, laptops can be sold, and cellphones can be sold. Understandable. But Zimbabwe dollars?
The Zimbabwe dollar is so worthless that people don't even want it in Zimbabwe itself. That's why there is such a large black market for US dollars and South African rands in that country. The exchange rate is 30 000 Zimbabwe dollars to 1 US dollar, or 3 892 Zimbabwe dollars to the South African rand.
These robbers probably would not even be able to give that money away.
