Botswana pleaded with US to support Makoni for ADB job
Botswana’s Finance Minister Baledzi Gaolathe pleaded with the United States to support Simba Makoni’s candidacy for president of the African Development Bank because he was the best qualified candidate.
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Business said there was no hope until Mugabe was gone
A number of business leaders, way back in 2005, said they saw no hope for Zimbabwe until President Robert Mugabe was gone because they did not believe that any cabinet under Mugabe would enact more reasonable exchange rate or land reform policies.
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Insider now has a mobile version
The Insider has launched its mobile version today to enable those who browse the internet through their phones to have easy access. And they do not have to do anything. The address is the same: www.insiderzim.com.
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Made warned white farmers not to sabotage reform programme
Lands and Agriculture Minister Joseph Made warned white commercial farmers not to sabotage the land reform programme by removing equipment such as irrigation equipment, tractors and farm vehicles from that farms that had been compulsorily acquired.
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Made refused to compromise with white farmers
The Commercial Farmers Union came up with a plan under which donors were going to provide soft loans to resettled farmers while the commercial farmers were to provide technical support in exchange for an end to their harassment and the illegal occupation of their farms but this was rejected outright by Agriculture Minister Joseph Made.
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Makoni says ZANU-PF politburo is dysfunctional
Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni, who was a member of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politburo, said the top political organ was dysfunctional.
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Ncube said Mujuru and Makoni were all out to bring down Mnangagwa
Former Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Welshman Ncube and party spokesman Paul Themba Nyathi told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan that growing factionalism within ZANU-PF was an offshoot of a concerted effort by Solomon Mujuru, Simba Makoni, and other members of an internal anti-corruption committee to bring down Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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Mugabe says stop human rights probe
Makoni said Mugabe wanted to crush MDC not accommodate it
Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan that President Robert Mugabe had never wanted to accommodate the Movement for Democratic Change.
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