On the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington on 19 April  Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said he had asked United States Treasury officials to let the country's investment banks know that Zimbabwe was 'open for business'...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    The chances of Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube and new Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mushayavanhu making progress in talks for a staff-monitored IMF programme in Washington DC on 15 April have been scuppered by the chaos caused by the introduction of the new ZiG currency a week earlier...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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	     The question is whether such measures  promised by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube on 12 February  will halt the slide of the world's worst-performing currency...
	 
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	     A number of the seats in question are constituencies that CCC candidates took from ZANU-PF elites – in particular  Cowdray Park  which the powerful Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube was given un-primaried by ZANU...
 Minister Mthuli Ncube is now believed to be one of Mnangagwa's closest and most trusted allies in cabinet...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The Ministry of Finance  critical to resolving the economic crisis  will continue under Mthuli Ncube  who was reappointed despite not winning a seat (AC Vol 64 No 16  Finance chief Ncube bets on resolving debt impasse)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube  who expected to walk into a parliamentary seat in the newly created Cowdray Park constituency in Bulawayo  having invested significant state resources in refurbishing the roads and providing amenities to residents  was defeated...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      For Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube  his economic plans depend on the elections: if they're deemed credible by the observers  that would accelerate the government's re-engagement campaign and prospects of reaching agreement to restructure its US$18 billion debt arrears and embarking on an IMF programme...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The public faces of the government's economic policy are finance minister Mthuli Ncube  Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Much will depend on how much political capital Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube can muster when his reforms clash with vested interests over foreign exchange allocations and unbudgeted spending and borrowing...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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	     Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube  a former vice-president at the AfDB who is standing as an MP for the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)  has been cheerleading the government's economic reform programme...
	 
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