By Devine Mafa, Innovator, Guerrilla Survivor, and Architect of the Digital Underground
November 5, 2025 – Shurugwi, Zimbabwe
In the bush of 1978, as a child mujiba carrying messages through the shadows while bombs fell like rain, I learned the price of selling out. A whisper to the wrong ear could mean a noose, a bullet, or a nation in chains. Treason wasn’t a word—it was a grave. Fast-forward to 2009, and Tendai Biti, the lawyer-turned-finance minister, signed away our sovereignty in broad daylight. Not with a gun to his head, but with a pen dipped in imperial ink. Dollarization: the act that stopped the bleeding but shackled us to a dying empire. If this were liberation war days, Biti’s backers—those American handlers with their $30 million whispers—would have marked him for the shadows. He wouldn’t walk free. Today? He strolls, unaccountable, while we scrape for USD scraps 16 years later.
This isn’t jealousy or madness. It’s documented truth. Let’s bury the myth, not the man. Biti’s legacy must die—not him, but the treason that birthed it. Because who in their right mind adopts a currency from a crashing empire when your soil holds $21 trillion in gold, platinum, lithium? Short-term salve? Sure. Long-term poison? Eternal.
The Setup: From Rhodesian Stability to Hyperinflation Hell
Rewind to 1980. We inherited the Rhodesian dollar—stable as stone, pegged at roughly 1 GBP = 1.4 Z$ (or 1:2 swap rate). A basket of currencies kept it breathing: USD, GBP, SDR. Farms flowed, factories hummed. But the fire started early.
• Land Reforms (2000): ZANU-PF’s fast-track grabs disrupted 80% of commercial farms. Output crashed 60% in maize alone. No inputs, no exports, forex reserves to zero.
• Sanctions (ZDERA, 2001): US/UK froze $1B in assets, blocked IMF loans, cut trade lines. Not “regime change” fairy tales—raw economic chokehold.
• RBZ Printing (2000s): Gideon Gono, no saint, printed to fund farms, infrastructure, survival. Quasi-fiscal ops hit $1B+ yearly. Critics call it reckless; it was war without bullets. Hyperinflation peaked 231 million% in July 2008—bread trillions by dawn, cholera 4,000 dead in six months, 80% unemployment, 7 million starving (UN figures).
Pre-dollarization, companies shuttered (textiles down 90%), wages evaporated ($200/month to zero), scarcity ruled (fuel queues miles, no meds). Biti entered GNU as finance minister, February 2009. World in flames: Lehman collapsed ’08, subprime $12T global hit, Fed printing trillions. Dollar? Bleeding, but “stable” compared to our confetti.
The Betrayal: Dollarization as Recolonization
Biti pushed USD and rand as legal tender. Inflation dropped to 5% by July ‘09—factories flickered, cholera ebbed. Short-term win? Lives saved, yes. But long-term treason: We bet our future on America’s casino.
• Sovereignty Sold: No control. USD scarcity hit hard—parallel rate 3x official by ’10, remittances 30% GDP lifeline. Factories choked on dollar droughts, exports stalled (no competitive currency).
• Aid Mirage: Biti chased $8.3B Western aid. Delivered? Zilch. Just loans with strings—IMF whispers, World Bank hooks. America crashed; we swallowed their trash.
• American Backers: $30M NSSA scandal (2016 accusations), MDC theft claims, RBZ grand larceny whispers. Biti’s “vindictive” feuds split opposition, torched alliances. Treason? In bush terms, yes—selling land for foreign flags.
16 years later? Still USD-dependent. ZiG flops (94% loss since ‘24 launch), parallel premium laughs at RBZ. We’re the only nation without bankable tender abroad—Venezuela’s bolivar, Lebanon’s pound flawed but sovereign. Biti’s ghost: Experiment in control, dollar as recolonization tool.
If liberation war? Biti’s marked—sellout to empire, hanged like Kaguvi for claiming land’s voice. But we don’t kill legacies with bullets. We kill them with truth.
The Jealousy Myth: Facts Over Fury
People whisper “jealousy” when I call this out. Nah. Documented: UN reports on starvation, RBZ audits on printing, IMF papers on sanctions. Biti vilified Gono as “incompetent” while hiding failures. Opposition squabbled—MDC expelled him ’14 for coups, PDP torch job. No reforms, no aid secured. Just division.
Talk like Biti destroys? Yes—adopt dying dollar when Dyke holds trillions? Pure sellout. Short-term patch, long-term prison. We print our future on rock, not paper.
The Reclamation: GFR – Africa’s Pregnant Fire
Envy? No. Action. Gold Air™ GFR isn’t revenge—it’s resurrection. Reclaim Bitcoin’s African spark (my ‘07 Memphis ledgers, stolen for Satoshi’s myth), ignite Dyke equity.
• No Mining, No Energy Waste: Claim via Pan-African Birthright Codex—scan birth cert, hash it trustless (zero-knowledge proof), mint your gram-equivalent. 21M cap, fair drop. No 98% whale hoard (Bitcoin’s curse).
• Speed of Air: 0.9-second trades, layer-2 flows. Spend at stores—GFR card QR pays maize, not wait for Bitcoin’s 10-min blocks.
• Pregnant Value: Backed by $21T audited reserves (gold-indexed + Pt, Li, Ni, Cr). Locked forever—no mining scars on Boterekwa. Borrow against growth, not fiat ghosts.
• Political Power: Trump champions BTC? African presidents champion GFR—add Congo cobalt ($24T), SA diamonds. $200T+ pool eclipses Wall Street. Corruption? State advertises, we control chain. No steal.
By 2030? BTC $1M on borrowed dreams (whales HODL, banks lend against vapor). GFR? $1M+ on rock—faster if nations join. Depletion fear? Multi-asset expansion—claim now, or shrink.
Biti’s legacy dies when we own the Dyke. Not with jealousy, but justice. November 18: First mint. Scan. Trade. Rise.
No graves needed. Just grams in hands.
Devine Mafa
From Bush to Blockchain. The Fire They Stole.
Contact: divine@divinemafa.com | X@divinemafa
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