Barter will only work for smaller things. You can’t trade onions for electricity. The cities are poised to collapse back to pre-industrial times, and there’s nothing Mugabe’s “war veterans” can do about it except to set up their own little medieval fiefdoms. Mugabe won’t realize this until the mobs start trading HIS stuff. No hope now, even if South Africa and other neighbors decide to remove him.
The only workable system there is barter, and
Barter will only work for smaller things. You can’t trade onions for electricity.
They stopped having any semblance of a real financial system since they hit a "mere" 100,000% inflation months ago. At this point it's pre-civilizational substinance existence, with perhaps something like cigarettes or some other easily traded item as a defacto currency until someone starts frm scratch.