Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni told banks, bureaus de change and leading exporters that a policy to devalue the Zimbabwe dollar had been agreed but this time everyone involved must stick and play together and not allow the parallel or black market to get too far away from the official rate.
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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 100.
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International surveys have rated Zimbabwe as the worst country to live in but one of Zimbabwe’s leading investment experts says Zimbabwe is the place to be in 2012.
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The Minister of State Security Nicholas Goche told United States embassy officials that he did not know who was calling the shots in the Democratic Republic of Congo but he believed it was the Congolese people.
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Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai faction secretary general Tendai Biti, who was arrested on his return from South Africa on 12 June, appeared in court twice charged with treason, publishing documents prejudicial to the State, causing disaffection within the police, and insulting the President.
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The government crackdown on the opposition which was meant to assure victory for President Robert Mugabe in the 27 June presidential elections runoff continued unabated.
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Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Tendai Biti said his party was ready for a government of national healing which included the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front as long as the “destabilising” Mugabe was not included.
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The Southern African Development Community was pushing for a government of national unity as a solution to Zimbabwe’s political crisis because it felt that a presidential election runoff would not end the impasse.
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Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa who was chair of the Southern African Development Community at the time of Zimbabwe’s disputed 2008 elections said the SADC mediator, South African President Thabo Mbeki, was counterproductive and insincere.
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Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Tendai Biti told diplomats in the Ghanaian capital Accra that Southern African Development Community mediator and South African President Thabo Mbeki had become part of the Zimbabwe problem because of his unwillingness to push Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
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