Banknote Reporter

Respect Your Currency

Has cold cash gone the way of Rodney Dangerfield? Don’t coins and bank notes get respect?

Apparently not, according to Bank of Namibia Director of Currency Management and Banking Operations Sencia Kaizemi-Rukata. There is a chronic shortage of coins circulating in the African nation. Kaizemi-Rukata is asking Namibians to stop hoarding them, either using them at retail stores or bringing them to banks.

Kaizemi-Rukata said, “Please circulate the coins.

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