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Mahere Critiques RBZ's Stance On ZiG Legal Tender Status

5 months agoWed, 30 Oct 2024 08:47:58 GMT
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Mahere Critiques RBZ's Stance On ZiG Legal Tender Status

Fadzayi Mahere, a Constitutional Lawyer, Law Lecturer, and Former Member of Parliament, criticised the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for insisting that the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency remains legal tender.

Advocate Thabani Mpofu stated on Monday that the ZiG lost its legal tender status on October 4, when the law that established it expired.

In response, the RBZ’s Corporate Affairs Department explained that the ZiG was established through Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) under S.I. 60 of 2024, representing a one-time act of currency reform.

The Central Bank maintained that currency reform measures do not expire simply because the legal instrument that initiated them has lapsed. Said the RBZ:

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe wishes to advise the public and all stakeholders that there is no gap at law regarding the Zimbabwe Gold currency.

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The Zimbabwe Gold currency, (ZiG) was established through Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) proclaimed under S.I 60 of 2024, which constitutes a one-time act of currency reform.

Currency reform measures by their nature do not lapse simply because the instrument that introduced the reforms has lapsed.

The lapsing of the Presidential Temporary Powers that established the currency does not, therefore, create a gap in the law. Legally, currency reform measures are only revoked by another legal instrument.

Meanwhile, it should be noted that The Finance Act which has since been gazetted into law, simply declares the provisions of S.I 60 of 2024 and is not meant to validate them.

Thus, ZiG remains the country’s legal tender, and the Reserve Bank will continue to consolidate its use and stability.

Commenting on the RBZ’s statement, Mahere said the central bank should have remained silent instead of providing an incoherent and legally unsound response. She posted on X:

Dai mangonyarara henyu. If you have a legal department, I’m sure they were not involved in the crafting of this notice. You concede that the legal basis for your zigzag has lapsed yet you suggest that the currency remains legal tender? How? What do you mean when you say the Finance Act declared the provisions of SI 60/24 but doesn’t validate them? So what does it do? What law is that?

This is embarrassing. We need new leaders.

In another post, Mahere said the law establishing the ZIG had a 6-month lifespan, and since that period has elapsed, there is no longer any legal basis for the ZIG. She wrote:

The law that created the ZIG had a 6 month lifespan. 6 months have since passed and there’s no longer any legal basis for the ZIG. It is invalid. It is not *legal* tender.

You don’t enact monetary laws by way of a press release or public notice from the Central Bank.

Legislation must be duly promulgated in line with the constitutionally-mandated law-making process.

Until this is done, the whole country is just playing one big game of Monopoly.

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25 Comments

Quana · 5 months ago
kkkk mukumutukireiko mahere uyo nhaimi
Private Investigator · 5 months ago
Let us welcome ka offlayer kanonzi tete Fadzie. You can't run away from Parliament and come to Twitter kuzoita noise naana mai Titi. STOP IT! You always tell us that everything that Zanu PF does is illegal. Unotiudza kuti tidii? Why not take a leaf from the DA or EFF parties in RSA and sue the Zanu PF government. Ka nonsense kemunhu.😂😂😂 Tave kuzofunga kuti you just make noise so that the electorate doesn't forget about you: ka Zanu PF Lite kemunhu 😂😂😂
Zag zig zog zuga · 5 months ago
Zero zero zig zvig marara money for the less trained in leading, we go nowhere we stand nowhere we are nowhere, dead we are being forced, dgungairwa rapinda zviose
Mhofu · 5 months ago
Haiwawo hapana zvino zivikanwa naMa**** uyo
twabam · 5 months ago
anonymous, wld you like to consume an expired product knowingly. them who put the expiry date having it thrown away, this monetary issue is of no partisan, it's national it affects the most vulnerable vanohoreswa makuZig iwayo moreover ndowari kuti its date of validity has gone by
Anonymous · 5 months ago
Iwe Mahere, as a lawyer who is patriotic to her country, unofanira kubatsira nekupa mazano ku RBZ kwacho nyika yoenderera mberi. Manje from your statement you are advocating kuti ZiG rakapera kushanda kwaro saka hatina mari izvezvi. Saka unoda kuti mhuri yeZimbabwe ishandisei kana waita advocate kumiswa kwemari yedu. We need progressive advocacy not your antagonistic advocacy
tru · 5 months ago
she is a lawyer not an economist,she jus spoke on her side concerning wat the law says...
Khutshwekhaya · 5 months ago
Mahere is not employed by RBZ how can she give legal advice to RBZ
𝙎𝙞𝙮𝙤𝙮𝙤 · 5 months ago
hóró yako iwe, advices can be given by anyone even without being employed. kana usingazive zvekutaura unyarare futi handisi kunzwa munhu anopikisa Fadzie
Corruptmore Looto · 5 months ago
You are speaking as if Zanu PF takes advice, if it did we wouldn't be where we are right now
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ah ok · 5 months ago
ok ah sole
Makatukura · 5 months ago
Mugano Gift akanguri akupai ma advice but hamutambire
I · 5 months ago
This proves beyond any doubt the level incompetence, ignorance and mismanagement that prevail in Zanu pf and extends into government....it's a real shame the tragi-comedy called Zimbabwe continues....
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Mmmm · 5 months ago
So it's means what.??
Anonymous · 5 months ago
Dustbin
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all zanus must attend this · 5 months ago
when is the great dustbin opening ceremony taking place ?
Chavhunduka · 5 months ago
thats good news,keep up the standard
Onnie Theman🛌💔 · 5 months ago
Having a point doesn't mean that she has an action to solve the problem.
Corruptmore Looto · 5 months ago
Has Zanu PF ever listened to anyone, stop sounding as if this incompetent government takes advice because it doesn't it does whatever it wants not caring about the repercussions
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shurushuru · 5 months ago
this doesn't warrant a response
Excellent ! · 5 months ago
well done Madam ! tell these clowns that make this stuff up while sitting around a tree drinking beer !!! they are really a bunch of bum clown jokers !!
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shurushuru · 5 months ago
mahere is always on point. I love this lady
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