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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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The Southern African Development Community’s troika on politics, defence and security, failed to break the deadlock over the allocation of ministries between the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change.

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Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Tendai Biti was planning to raise the issue of the government’s ban on food distribution by non-governmental organisations in Parliament.

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Kutama, the school next to President Robert Mugabe’s rural home and where he went to school, was spared from the food ban on non-governmental organisations because his son was also going to school there.

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No one has been so controversial in his short political career like former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo. There are about 240 cables on him and we have now published 150.

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