Zimbabwe to introduce local bank notes in October

Zimbabwe's central bank will start circulating local bank notes in October but the country will continue to use the dollar and other foreign currencies and will not be returning to a domestic currency abandoned in 2009, its governor said on Monday. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya described the local notes as vouchers meant to boost exports and generate foreign exchange and dismissed talk of a return to the local currency as "unfounded rumours". "We have assured the public before