Posts by Charles Rukuni

Finance Minister Tendai Biti demonetised the Zimbabwe dollar in his mid-year budget for 2009 and said he would buy all balances held by the financial sector for an estimated US$6 million.

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Gideon Gono was at one time the de facto Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. He had become so powerful that he sent shivers through many original founders of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. But he is now a pale shadow of his former self. There are 290 cables on Gono, making him third with the highest number of cables after Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe. Here are the first 157.

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Mines Minister Obert Mpofu was yesterday praised by the African Diamond Council for standing up to the United States to get Kimberley Process approval for the Marange diamonds.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee way back in August 2008 that there was no room for central bank governor Gideon Gono in the new government.

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Members of the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce blasted the government for policy inconsistencies and reversals and accused the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe of usurping the functions of the Ministry of Finance.

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The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank killed the booming peasant agriculture in Zimbabwe reducing the country to a perennial food importer whereas it had been a net exporter prior to their structural adjustment programme, a new study by the Jubilee Debt Campaign says.

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Belgium said it had no objection to the addition of central bank governor Gideon Gono’s name to the United Nations Security Council sanctions list.

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The Italian government said it supported the Security Council resolution on Zimbabwe which entitled the United Nations to intervene militarily in the southern African country but said it had no comment on central bank governor Gideon Gono at the time.

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France said it would support the inclusion of central bank governor Gideon Gono on the European sanctions list which would in turn facilitate his inclusion on the United Nations Security Council list.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front would not rig the elections and would seek to work with Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai if he won.

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