Central bank governor Gideon Gono said his new policies had unleashed a “shrill” cacophony of covert memos and emissaries to President Robert Mugabe with one high ranking Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front senior official travelling all the way to Malaysia where Mugabe was holidaying to complain about his policy.
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A report which claims that diamonds worth more than US$2 billion have been stolen from Marange since 2008, says former army commander Solomon Mujuru who died in a fire in August last year was assassinated by unknown persons.
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Movement for Democratic Change spokesperson Nelson Chamisa said party secretary-general Tendai Biti had said a deal with the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front to set up an inclusive government was dead because he was disappointed that he would not be appointed deputy Prime Minister.
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Despite ultimatums to president Robert Mugabe that he would pull out of negotiations if the government did not release abducted Movement for Democratic Change activists, MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai never planned to abandon talks and had mapped out a 60-day plan which included continued negotiations.
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After Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa’s vacuous 2004 budget speech, everyone was now waiting for the government’s new point man, central bank governor Gideon Gono to map the way forward for the country.
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New central bank governor Gideon Gono was to become central banker, Finance, and Trade minister melded in one after Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa surrendered all the power to him, according to United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan.
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Finance Minister Hebert Murerwa presented a 2004 budget that was more remarkable for what it omitted than what it included, leaving everything to new central bank governor Gideon Gono.
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Central Bank governor Gideon Gono did not want the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe post and tried to dodge President Robert Mugabe for six months, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.
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President Robert Mugabe joined Information Minister Jonathan Moyo and Agriculture Minister Joseph Made in blaming parallel market traders for creating the forex shortage in the country.
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Agriculture Minister Joseph Made scuttled a US$30 million tobacco deal when he announced that the government was reconstituting the Agricultural Marketing Authority which purchased all the country’s tobacco until 1994.
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