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Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, still smarting from the humiliation of being stripped his powerful post of Justice Minister- it made him leader of the House of Assembly-,is likely to have his…

There have been a series of stories about how corrupt new Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo is, referring to the fortune he has built for himself over the years. Chombo’s wealth…

President Robert Mugabe yesterday made changes to his cabinet replacing Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa with Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo. Despite a long history of corruption Chombo, a former university…

Zimbabwe equities edged up yesterday as punters kept up their uptake of local stocks, unimpressed by the appointment of Ignatius Chombo as Finance Minister. The instability in the money market…

Linguist and media critic Noam Chomsky has listed 10 strategies used by politicians to manipulate the people. Chomsky a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology might as well have been…

On September 27, a panicky Patrick Chinamasa, then Finance Minister, threatened to tighten government controls on social media, blaming it for fuelling shortages of basic commodities and bank notes in…

President Mugabe has always hated it when Finance Ministers have minds of their own. In Ignatius Chombo, Mugabe has his yes-man. By giving control of the economy to Chombo, the…

Zimbabwe’s annual broad money supply recorded a 29.61 percent growth in July to $6.56 billion, driven by an increase in deposits, latest data from the central bank has shown. Broad…

Movement for Democratic Change legislator Eddie Cross says party leader Morgan Tsvangirai is so ill that he might not make it to next year’s elections. Writing in his blog before…

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has replaced Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa with Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo in a cabinet reshuffle, the government said in a statement last night. Mugabe also…