Justice Malala, Columnist

Zimbabwe Gold Won't Solve the Country's Problems

What Zimbabwe needs is a new political direction, not a new currency.

April 18, 2024 at 4:00 AM UTC

Justice Malala is a political commentator and former editor of South Africa's This Day. He is the author of “The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation.”

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When it comes to bringing a knife to a gunfight, Zimbabweans have got game.

In 2017, after 37 years of kleptocratic rule by the late President Robert Mugabe, the country’s army staged a coup ousting him. Thousands of Zimbabweans rushed into the streets in jubilation. Change was afoot, many said. Then they installed Mugabe’s right-hand man and vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, to take over.