And well done for getting this together. Unfortunately, it’s likely that the service will be needed for years to come, though hopefully we’ll eventually get beyond converting pounds to petrol coupons to pork sausages.

How come you guys have got such low exchange rates? Come on, do tell.

I have a question, though, about mukuru.com, which is offering very low rates of exchange; so low that one wonders how they can succeed as a business.

And yet this service is needed more than ever now that the Zim economy is almost completely dollarised. So many internet delivery sites are far too expensive for ordinary Diaspora Zimbabweans whose low paid jobs don’t allow them to make minimum orders worth thousands of rands!

So…is anyone here willing to vouch for Mukuru (no pun intended)? How long have they been going, and do they actually do what they say they will? These days you can’t trust a website just because it’s there.

Instead of relying on inspirational quotes from famous people someone I know gets her friends and guests to give her their quotations sharing their view of the world. Then she puts them up on her fridge. She sent me a long list of quotes yesterday, tog…