Does the Mugabe regime's survival rest in the hands of graphic designers?

This may amuse. I belatedly came upon news reports in the
Los Angeles Times (USA) and The Guardian (UK) from 24 July,
about an emerging threat to the Mugabe regime.  Their state
printers of banknotes had just had their German supply of
watermarked banknote paper cut off, and the printers were
also getting worried about the licensing status of the
"GS" software suite from Jura JSP GmbH that they use to
design the Zimbabwean banknotes.

You may be aware that Zimbabwe's inflation rate now tops
11 million percent, the regime depends on securing the loyalty
of the army by trucking fresh banknotes round to the barracks,
and every few weeks the graphic designers at Fidelity Printers
in Harare have to come up with a new set of banknote artwork.

Is political power now coming from the button of a mouse?

See my blog "the Conradiator": http://conradiator.wordpress.com

(Sorry for shameless plug, but if David Sless can get away with
it, so can I.)

:-)

Conrad
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