With inflation reaching 231,000,000%, unemployment soaringtoward 80% and power sharing agreements dissolving, it is easy to get discouraged about the future of Zimbabwe. The good news is that there is hope and Rejoice Ngwenya’s Coalition for Market & Liberal Solutions (COMALISO) is at the center of it.
Situated within Prince Edward High School, a top notch Harare-based school that boosts of alumni in positions of leadership throughout the world’s corporate boardrooms, is a student group called MANEC. Created to enrich students with practical knowledge and empirical evidence of real life economics, MANEC hosts monthly discussion and debates on policy issues critical to Zimbabwe.
COMALISO has teamed up with MANEC to equip club members with resources to deepen their interest in free market policy issues. Recently, COMALISO provided technical support to MANEC during an inter-school debate on the introduction of coins into Zimbabwe’s ailing monetary system. Economics and business students from Arundel Girls High School joined the debate and gave their counter arguments. In addition, leading economist, Dr. John Robertson, gave an overview of Zimbabwe’s monetary situation. He predicted that the country’s inflation would exceed one hundred million percent with the next few months. COMALISO also hosted a mock television debate entitled, “Markets in Motion,” to test the interest level among the students and their parents on the global ripple effect of the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae crises.
COMALISO would like to expand into other high schools in Harare, but it is in need of resources. If you are able to donate books, DVDs or other literature on free market ideas to COMALISO, please contact Rejoice at comaliso@yahoo.com. COMALISO is a policy dialogue think tank that promotes free market ideas.
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