Jewel Bank chief executive Gideon Gono told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan that contradictions in Zimbabwe’s economy could lead to a meltdown in six months.
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Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe managing director Gideon Gono was rumoured to have taken over the Financial Gazette, one of the most respected papers in the country.
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Gideon Gono, who at the time was the managing director of the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe, said President Robert Mugabe sounded him out for a cabinet appointment but he turned it down.
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The rumour mill had it way back in 2000 that Gideon Gono, then the managing director of the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe, was top of the list to take over as Minister of Finance from Herbert Murerwa after the June 2000 elections which saw the emergence of the Movement for Democratic Change.
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Finance Minister Tendai Biti dropped onerous levies and charges introduced by central bank governor Gideon Gono in his January 2009 monetary policy statement.
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Finance Minister Tendai Biti told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee that the government was broke. It was spending about US$100 million a month but was only earning US$11 million a month.
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South African President Kgalema Motlanthe told a press conference on 17 December 2008, three months after the signing of the Global Political Agreement, that he hoped an inclusive government would be in place that week but Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Tendai Biti said he did not know what Motlanthe was talking about.
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The Movement for Democratic Change said it was not involved in the assassination attempt of Air Force chief Perrence Shiri adding that as a party it condemned the use of violence in any form.
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With almost three months gone since the signing of the Global Political Agreement but the allocation of ministries still unresolved, Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Tendai Biti told United States embassy officials that the party was now paying lip service to dialogue. Its real goal was internationally supervised elections.
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Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Tendai Biti, who had become one of the key obstacles to the implementation of the Global Political Agreement, had charges of insulting the president and causing disaffection to the armed forces dropped against him but he still faced charges of treason.
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