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Finance Minister Tendai Biti said he was confident that negotiations on the long-awaited Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement between Zimbabwe and South Africa would be concluded soon.

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President Robert Mugabe was hurt most by the Wikileaks cables that were released between November 2010 and September last year an internet poll by The Insider showed.

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South Africa had given Zimbabwe R200 million in financial assistance but Finance Minister Tendai Biti had asked for more.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti on 27 July 2009 received an envelope with a 9mm bullet and a note advising him to “prepare his will”.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti said Zimbabwe was expected to have a positive growth of 3.7 percent in 2009, the first positive growth in a decade.

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Attorney-general Johannes Tomana reasserted the legitimacy of his appointment as the government’s top prosecutor when he was challenged by two Movement for Democratic Change leaders Finance Minister Tendai Biti and Information Communication Technology Minister Nelson Chamisa.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti demonetised the Zimbabwe dollar in his mid-year budget for 2009 and said he would buy all balances held by the financial sector for an estimated US$6 million.

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Gideon Gono was at one time the de facto Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. He had become so powerful that he sent shivers through many original founders of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. But he is now a pale shadow of his former self. There are 290 cables on Gono, making him third with the highest number of cables after Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe. Here are the first 157.

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Mines Minister Obert Mpofu was yesterday praised by the African Diamond Council for standing up to the United States to get Kimberley Process approval for the Marange diamonds.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee way back in August 2008 that there was no room for central bank governor Gideon Gono in the new government.

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