ECONOMIST Lubinda Haabazoka says if the country didn’t call people that have money thieves, money could have been coming into the country. Commenting on the latest depreciation of the Kwacha from trading at K21 per dollar in late February to hitting the K24 per dollar mark last week, Haabazoka said money will continue leaving the country as long as businessmen were talked about as if their money was illegit. “For us economists, we know rhetoric is the enemy of the Kwacha at this point. If we had less negative rhetoric towards business people, if we didn’t call people that have money thieves, probably we could have been seeing money coming into the country but as long as we are seeing...

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