EDITOR — Given the slow stabilisation of inflation, it would be wise for the government to consider use of the rand so that we have complete stabilisation of our economy. It is an open secret that the currency crisis is wreaking havoc in Zimbabwe and our closest option is for the authorities to consider adopting…

The rand, for example, has given up some of its gains over the past week, and is currently hovering around the R19 mark to the US dollar — as talks over the mooted GNU drag on.
