In Zimbabwe, Gold Is the New Currency

Gold for Bread (2009): MDC activist Sam Chakaipa returns to his village in Zimbabwe to find his friends and neighbours starving. As the Zimbabwean dollar becomes ever weaker, gold has become the currency of choice. For more information: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/feb/11/zimbabwe-gold-panning-starvation-food '0.1gram of gold for a tin of grain!' calls a seller from the back of his car. The people in this village have given up on the Zimbabwean dollar; gold is the new currency. 'For everything they want gold. I don't remember the last time I had Zimbabwean dollars. They don't accept it in the shops,' tells one man. Families are forced to pan for gold powder in the rivers. It can take all day to find enough gold to buy one loaf of bread. Chakaipa visits his former neighbour who simply says 'Without panning there is no life at all.' As mothers hunt for gold to care for their children, those too weak to dig for themselves are left struggling to survive. 'If you are disabled or old it means you are going to die.' Guardian Films - Ref. 4356 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.

Comments

1. must. keep. watching. journeyman TV.
2. Get a Sluice box.
3. Kicking White peoples out of Zimbabwe eh? How's that working out for you?
4. Old people and disabled people should just die if they can't work because there shouldn't be any "entitlements"... that's right, VOTE REPUBLICAN
5. everybody was cheering when they murdered the white farmers and took their farms .don't be butthurt now .
6. Shame humans are so selfish to help people in time of need. Yes there are good people but too many corrupt. You could throw billions of dollars worth of food at this country, but would end up in the hands of the corrupt politician's.
7. But I just i watched a CNN news video that said gold is worthless and gold just sits there. I don't think CNN would lie to me? I think the people working all day to get .01 grams of gold are crazy when the have perfectly good paper currency that has 100000000000 on the front and back they should just go to Walmart and buy what they want.
8. Why help Africa? They don't want whites so fuck them. All this welfare to africa ends up with them breeding more of themselves and then crossing our borders fucking up our countries. Let nature cull the herd.
9. Ian Smith would be turning in his grave if he could see what's happened to his homeland. I hope after Mugabe's gone, the people can fix the mess that ZAPU-PF made.
10. But, but, but no one wants gold and silver during a collapse! YOU CAN'T EAT/DRINK GOLD!
    
    Sarcasm aside. This video makes me very sad just thinking about what they had to go through.
11. People of the developed nations will face the same situation very soon as the fiat currencies will collapse.
12. Now if you lot didn't kick out your white farmers who fed and kept your country afloat you wouldn't be in this situation. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
13. It will continue to be like this untill they get rid of mugabe.
14. Instead of finding gold is it not better for them to farm the land..if they can make extra food. They could just exchange it with gold.
15. Rhodesia was known as "the breadbasket of Africa". Oh well. Who'd want a full belly while whitey runs the show, am I right? HIGH FIVE!
16. Most of you have no idea how much wealth lies beneath the soil of the entire Southern African region. If yoiu did you'd figure out why economic warefare was waged upon the Zimbabwean people.
17. A lot of Americans don't understand Economics or they just hate poor Zimbabweans. The US hate Mugabe so they will make everyone in the country suffer by making their currency valueless through sanctions.
18. I guess they never heard of Bitcoin yet...
19. If there is grass growing you can grow food.  PLEASE DONE BE LAZY
20. If at some point your bread costs 10 trillion (insert random currency), while its worth is 3 dollars you know even seashells could be more valuable!