11/29/2007

That will be one hundred and twenty million, please....

Our Zimbabwe correspondent sends this picture of a gentleman simultaneously doing his weightlifting exercises and paying the modest tab for a party of four at a Harare eatery where, miraculously, some food and drink was actually available. These days the sealed plastic bags of bills, known as "bricks," are rarely opened. Worth ten million, the brick itself has become an unofficial unit of currency.

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