The deal uncovered by former Finance Minister Tendai Biti and the Public Accounts Committee allowed Sakunda to receive US$366 million in government bonds as payment for supplying inputs for Command Agriculture...
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Parliament's Public Accounts Committee under its chair Tendai Biti one of the Vice-Presidents of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change has been unearthing new details about how Sakunda CEO Kudakwashe Tagwirei and his officer allies extract funds from Command Agriculture...
In 2009 when the Government of National Unity uniting the Movement for Democratic Change and Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front adopted the US dollar it became the de facto central bank of Zimbabwe and was indirectly reporting to then Finance Minister Tendai Biti...
Tendai Biti the Finance Minister under the previous unity government which ran from 2009 to 2013 and now one of three MDC Alliance vice-presidents has been quoted as saying that his party has ways of making sure that the Mnangagwa government 'does not get a cent' of the more than US$2 billion required to clear debt arrears to key international financial institutions and open the way for fresh funding essential to lift Zimbabwe from the deep economic hole dug by Mugabe...
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Two of its new vice-presidents Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti had led break-away factions in the Tsvangirai era...
Chamisa and his colleague the former Finance Minister Tendai Biti are well aware of the damage done to the MDC by its joining a power-sharing government with ZANU-PF in 2009...
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The question is to what extent a weakened Chamisa will face challenges from other opposition heavyweights such as former Finance Minister Tendai Biti or former Trade andIndustry Minister Welshman Ncube...
Party leaders Nelson Chamisa and Tendai Biti were said to be out of town prompting government officials to accuse them of stoking trouble and then running away...
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Obstructive ZECInstead Chamisa and top allies such as Tendai Biti and Welshman Ncube are focusing efforts on the mechanics of the election and cutting down vote-fixing...
'Chiri has been causing pain in government ' the former Finance Minister Tendai Biti told local media accusing the government of behaving 'like a mafia in full swing'...
Two South African opposition parties the Economic Freedom Fighters and the Democratic Alliance as well as Tendai Biti of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change have all sharply criticised Lungu's actions not least because some see strong similarities with the actions of their own leaders...
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