“A Zimbabwean man walks into a Capetown
bank and asks to see the loan officer. He says
he is going to Zimbabwe on holiday for two
weeks and wants to borrow R20. The bank
officer says the bank will need some kind of
security for such a loan, so the man handed
over the keys of his new BMW M3 parked on
the street in front of the bank. Everything is
checked out, and the bank agrees to accept the
car as collateral for the loan. An employee
drives the BMW into the bank’s underground
garage and parks it there. Two weeks later, the
man returns, repays the R20 and the interest,
which comes to R25,41. The loan officer says,
“We are very happy to have had your business,
and this transaction has worked out very nicely,
but we are a little puzzled. While you were
away, we checked you out and found that you
are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is,
why you would bother to borrow R20? The
Zimbabwean man replied, “Where else in
Capetown can I park my car safely for two
weeks and pay only R25.41?” Zimbabweans will
always be Zimbabwean and intelligent
too……proudly