Posts by Charles Rukuni

Bulawayo business consultant Eric Bloch who was reported to be close to central bank governor Gideon Gono said Gono was naïve and impetuous.

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Two Russian foreign affairs counsellors told United States embassy officials that they did not see any reason why Russia should avoid contact with Zimbabwe because it was no more autocratic than “the norm in Africa”.

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Central bank governor cooked up figures to hide the true extent of inflation.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell that everyone hated him except the man on the street.

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An International Monetary Fund team that was in Zimbabwe on a 10-day at the end of January 2006 failed to establish where Zimbabwe had got the US$120 million it had paid to the IMF six months earlier.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti is considered the second most powerful person in the Movement for Democratic Change. Some Wikileaks cables have even said he wanted to be Deputy Prime Minister. There are 264 cables on him. Here are the first 168.

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The United States embassy in Harare did not agree with the conclusion of an International Monetary Fund mission to Zimbabwe that the government’s income estimate for 2009 was overly optimistic saying in light of the gaping lack of information on private sector activity and its capacity to rebound, it believed Finance Minister Tendai Biti’s revised budget broadly reflected actual government incomes and expenditures.

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The United States embassy was full of praise for Finance Minister Tendai Biti’s revised first budget saying it was a major policy improvement.

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No one has been so controversial in his short political career like former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo. He was a strong critic of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, then joined the party to become its propaganda chief, but got expelled for defying the party, but he was readmitted and got back into the politburo.

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The Insider has started a blog for its book- How to Buy a House for Half the price to promote the book and to write about the latest housing trends in South Africa.

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