The British government yesterday confirmed that it sold 1 5000 landrovers to the Zimbabwe Republic Police in 1998 and underwrote a loan of just over 15 million pounds for the purchase.
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Central bank governor Gideon Gono was in March 2007 forced to go the streets for money after South African banks refused to give him credit to finance food imports, his advisor Munyaradzi Kereke told United States embassy officials.
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President Robert Mugabe was firmly in control of the country and central bank governor Gideon Gono had to kowtow to him over every incremental devaluation and cloak it obsequiously as a magnanimous gesture from the president.
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Finance Minister Tendai Biti today said the government had a surplus of $30.4 million last year.
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Central bank governor Gideon Gono told United States ambassador Christopher Dell, two days before the presentation of his first 2007 monetary policy statement, that he was going to begin “true reform”, promote national unity and engage the international community “East, West, North and South”.
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Air Zimbabwe is authorised to fly to Britain twice a week but it has not operated any services this year. It operated 83 flights in and out of the United Kingdom last year.
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Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front information boss Nathan Shamuyarira told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that central bank governor Gideon Gono would be massacred if he stepped into the political ring.
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Central bank governor Gideon Gono, saying that 2006 had been his worst year in office, promised United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that he would stop moaning about sanctions and would educate the nation that capital flowed to “areas of greatest freedom”.
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Stricter liquidity controls that were announced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in January 2006 raising statutory reserves to 60 percent for demand deposits and 45 percent for savings deposits were reported to be sapping the sector of vital capital.
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