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President Robert Mugabe joined Information Minister Jonathan Moyo and Agriculture Minister Joseph Made in blaming parallel market traders for creating the forex shortage in the country.

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Agriculture Minister Joseph Made scuttled a US$30 million tobacco deal when he announced that the government was reconstituting the Agricultural Marketing Authority which purchased all the country’s tobacco until 1994.

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Herbert Murerwa has been one of the longest serving members of President Robert Mugabe’s government. He has served as a civil servant, then as a diplomat and finally as a minister. The Harvard-educated Murerwa, who has been Minister of Finance more than once, has been variously described as decent but ineffective and “too much of a gentleman”. There are more than 50 Wikileaks cables on him. Here is the first batch.

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In a rare criticism of one of president Robert Mugabe’s top lieutenants the Herald attacked Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa for failing to address inflation.

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Botswana was put on the defensive when the Zimbabwean government accused it of harbouring training camps for the Movement for Democratic Change and lodged a petition with the Southern African Development Community to investigate the issue.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader and Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai was welcome to stay in Botswana for as long as he wanted, Botswana Foreign Affairs official Tinar Lekuni said.

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The United States embassy in Harare said there were two primary motives behind government’s arrests of several Movement for Democratic Change and civic activists in December 2008, including MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s special assistant Gandi Mudzingwa.

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Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa announced a supplementary budget that did not address any of the fundamental issues prompting the United States embassy to say that government decision-making remained comatose.

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The Zimbabwean government devalued its currency from Z$55 to Z$824 to the greenback in 2003, eliminated most indirect export taxes, reduced its fuel subsidy from 88 to 24 percent and began to negotiate dollarized energy tariffs but there was still no hint of economic revival.

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti presents his annual, probably last, budget on Thursday. With their obsession for elections, most people will probably be looking at whether he provides anything for elections, and how much.

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