Civil war, inflation, food: Lawrence Mattock

Civil war, inflation, food: Lawrence Mattock

What is it like to watch your money get inflated by more than a billion percent?

Lawrence Mattock was a child when the Rhodesian Civil War began. During this interview we discuss what it was like to be a soldier, life after Robert Mugabe came to power, obscene levels of inflation, and a cultural food company Lawrence has built from the ground up.

In this clip Lawrence discusses what it was like to learn that his savings and future earning potential were being inflated.

In this section, Lawrence talks about a food company he has started during his retirement years after spending a lifetime traveling through some of the toughest places in Africa.