[This is a Landmark moment. So this is the price you pay for smashing those lazy white farmers who stole everything from the blacks hey? I think this is so beautiful.

What is interesting for me is how, for some time, he seemed to be sort-of making some headway, when inflation was down to round about the 300% level.

I wonder if there isn’t some kind of untold story of what went on behind the scenes?

I am wondering about this: Do you remember the money S.Africa gave him? What happened to it? Is it possible that secretly… S.Africa’s support of him has been curtailed/run out and hence the nosedive? Or was it merely cumulative? Was the damage to the economy so great that eventually people were just bailing?

Where to from here hey? This is uncharted territory.

I don’t think that any country has experienced inflation like this since the Germans and Italians currencies went to hell after WWII. So this stands unique in the annals of recent history. This is much worse than happened to Brazil some time back.

I must admit I’m just LOVING this.

Next step: To shoot the bastard and his scumbags out of power. Mugabe can cover this up as much as he likes, but this should be a massive blow to his credibility. Even his own crooked buddies must realise that inflation like this is a sign of their own weakening power base. I still believe they can be taken down. And TIME is on our side… Jan]

Harare – Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate scaled a record high of 1,042.9% in April after surging 913.6% in March, the Central Statistics Office said on Friday.

March’s reading was the previous record for the consumer price index (CPI). On a monthly basis, the index rose by 21.1%, quickening from 19.8% in March.

Zimbabwe’s inflation rate is the highest in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund.

The news follows an abrupt delay two days ago of the data.

President Robert Mugabe’s government has admitted inflation, already the highest in the world, is one of the biggest hurdles in its efforts to reverse an economic slide which is increasingly raising official fears of popular protest.

Mugabe, who has ruled the former British colony since independence in 1980, denies plunging the economy into crisis, and in turn charges that the country is a victim of sabotage by opponents of his controversial seizures of land from white farmers for blacks.