The world according to Biti

Anyone who says elections in Zimbabwe are coming up this year, next year or in 2013, is out of his mind, so says Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister and Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Tendai Biti according to the Financial Times

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IMF predicts slow down

The International Monetary fund today said Zimbabwe’s economic growth is to decline from 9 percent to 5.5 percent this year and attributes this to “an inefficient composition of expenditure, rising…

Too violent

Zimbabwean human rights activists who have flocked to Johannesburg ahead of the Southern African Development Community meeting this weekend today said the country is too violent and undemocratic to hold…

Tekere’s true friends

Former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front secretary general and founder of the Zimbabwe Union Movement, Edgar Tekere, has died. At one time he was President Robert Mugabe’s number two but he was expelled from the party in 1988 after opposing the drive towards a one-party state and condemning increasing corruption with the party and the government. Although ZANU-PF readmitted him to the party in 2005, he was fired again after writing his book: A lifetime of struggle. In the introduction to the book, he mentioned who his true friends were. Here they are:

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IMF and diamonds

The International Monetary Fund wants Finance Minister Tendai Biti to handle all diamond transactions so that Zimbabwe can use the revenue to repay part of its external debt totalling $7.1…

Nzarayebani’s ideal cabinet

Nearly 20 years ago Mutare South Legislator Lazarus Nzarayebani said Zimbabwe’s 24-member cabinet was too big. He suggested it be reduced by half to 12. Today, Zimbabwe’s cabinet has 46…

Tekere dies

Former political firebrand Edgar Tekere died today after a battle with cancer. Tekere who was at one time President Robert Mugabe's number two was expelled from the party in 1988…