I’m in Harare this week, getting ravaged by its banking crisis. So when this popped up in my inbox, my thought was: how appropriate.

Seems to me that the privilege of going cashless is reserved for those that have all the cash they could want, whenever they want it.

Because choosing to forgo it? Well, that’s faith in a banking sector for you.

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