Doing business in Zimbabwe
by Andrew Smith on 01/08/08 at 12:49 pm
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Writing a cheque in Zimbabwe requires a dictionary on-hand for a word that most of us have never had to spell before – “quadrillion”.
It makes the “only” look a bit out of place.
Andrew Smith is the pedantic systems guy behind Live Alchemy, a SA e-commerce company. Andrew writes for Ideate in an attempt to make the world a more efficient place. View more articles by Andrew Smith.
Yaarik
Sep 16th, 2008
I just had to email this to all my friends. Hilarious! But sad when you think of the state of the Zimbabwean economy and the people who really have to deal with this every day!