Zimbabwe cracks down on currency dealers on social media and mobile money platforms

Zimbabwe cracks down on currency dealers on social media and mobile money platforms

Zimbabwe is cracking down on social media and mobile money platforms to root out alleged “illegal currency dealers” that the government blames for a plunge in the value of the country’s local unit of exchange. But economists and tech experts warn that this amounts to shooting the wrong target. Jee-A Van De Linde, an economist…