Zimbabwe uses US dollars for its currency. Zimbabwe's inflation was so high, something like 1,000% a year or more, it couldn't print currency with enough zeros. People were literally walking around with suit cases loaded with money just to buy groceries. So it adopted the US dollar as its currency. It's kind of ironic that a country which is always preaching against America and neocolonialism had to turn to the US dollar to stabilize its monetary system.  But only the United States prints US currency. Zimbabwe can't. So the money that circulates in Zimbabwe is used over and over again and it gets very, very dirty. Note the $5 bill above I got when we were up in Zimbabwe.

Saturday, January 18th, we visited the Apartheid Museum. It's located near Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg.

There are still many Mandela tributes all over South Africa. The Museum had a special exhibit just for him.

Apartheid was in full swing when I was a young missionary here in the late 60's. I remember signs like this in lots of places. 

Skyline of Johannesburg.

Johannesburg it literally built on gold mines. Gold was discovered here in the 1880's. Johannesburg, with population of over 5 million people, is the largest city in sub-saharan Africa. Mom and I have been lost in this city on more than one occasion. Sometimes it gets a little scary.