For Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube his economic plans depend on the elections: if they're deemed credible by the observers that would accelerate the government's re-engagement campaign and prospects of reaching agreement to restructure its US$18 billion debt arrears and embarking on an IMF programme...
The public faces of the government's economic policy are finance minister Mthuli Ncube Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya...
Much will depend on how much political capital Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube can muster when his reforms clash with vested interests over foreign exchange allocations and unbudgeted spending and borrowing...
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Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube a former vice-president at the AfDB who is standing as an MP for the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) has been cheerleading the government's economic reform programme...
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That assessment is economically and politically significant as next month Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is due to meet creditors to discuss plans to pay off Zimbabwe's debt arrears and regain access to funding from the international financial institutions...
Other appointees to the Central Committee include the irrepressibly upbeat Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube who has redoubled his political loyalty to the party although initially hired as a technocrat...
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission recently halted all tenders to tackle the 'cartels' – business networks linked to powerful government individuals – bidding to supply everything from laptops to government vehicles at inflated prices...
One such is being pursued by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube who has enlisted Akinwimi Adesina President of the African Development Bank to back a debt restructuring with Zimbabwe's creditors including the World Bank the Paris Club and other bilateral lenders (AC Vol 60 No 6 Ncube wins foreign fans)...
A Kuvimba dividend distribution ceremony in 2021 featured outsize cheques with small values doled out to dispossessed white farmers and war veterans in the presence of finance minister Mthuli Ncube...
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed him Minister of State for Security in 2018 the news was released quietly after the announcement of the official post-election cabinet which had been padded with 'reformist' candidates like finance minister Mthuli Ncube and sports minister Kirsty Coventry intended to demonstrate goodwill to the West...