Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 | 
            - ZIMBABWE
 - CHINA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono  who continues to battle with MDC Finance Minister Tendai Biti over control of the economy  said that ‘significant’ sums from the deal were already with local financial institutions...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     At the cabinet meeting on 24 November  Mujuru insured herself against another harvest failure and launched an emotional attack on Finance Minister Tendai Biti for not using International Monetary Fund money to purchase and distribute agricultural inputs...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     When the MDC Finance Minister and chief strategist  Tendai Biti  suspended the national currency in February  it took away ZANU-PF's capacity to print local money and control the foreign exchange markets  thus shutting many of its political friends out of the economy...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Several African bankers who attended the Zimbabwe roadshows in Cape Town on 10-12 June told Africa Confidential they would open negotiations  having been convinced to sign up by Finance Minister Tendai Biti  Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara and Harare's omnipresent financial baron  Nigel Chanakira...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     ZANU-PF backbenchers were equally outraged at Gono's instruction to return the vehicles not to him but to Tendai Biti's Finance Ministry...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Finance Minister Tendai Biti told Africa Confidential that amnesty talks were going on...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    Tendai Biti did not mince his words...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The idea of the retreat was to bring the former sworn opponents together in Zimbabwe's most expensive and picturesque hotel to consider proposals from the new Finance Minister  Tendai Biti...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      The decision to drop the Zimbabwe dollar was taken by Finance Minister Tendai Biti and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono  then confirmed by the Council of Ministers...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    Finance Minister Tendai Biti has emerged as the key figure in Zimbabwe's economic recovery  walking the uneasy path between securing external finance from sceptical outsiders and dealing with his crafty colleagues from President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front...