Patrick Antony Chinamasa

ZANU-PF also through Sakunda imported very slightly less grand Toyota Land Cruiser VX 200 models worth $5m for former ministers who had been redeployed to the ruling party including: Patrick Chinamasa Obert Mpofu Sydney Sekeremayi David Parirenyatwa Christopher Mushowe Simon Khaya-Moyo Simbarashe Mumbengegwi and Mike Bimha...

This generated anxiety as RTGS payments should represent US dollars in citizens' bank accounts and former Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa had promised Zimbabweans that bond notes would always be exactly on a par with the US dollar in their bank accounts...

Ex-Finance Minister Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front stalwart Robert Mugabe hard-man former sanctions target and multiple farm-owner Patrick Chinamasa is not well-known for soft-sell diplomacy...

Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa contends that it is a subsidiary of Zimbabwe Aviation Leasing Company apparently founded as a front for parastatals that were hampered by international sanctions...

Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa has announced an increase in funding for Command Agriculture which brings small-scale agriculture under the control of the military (AC Vol 58 No 4 ZANU-PF digs for votes & Vol 58 No 13 Trafigura aims for gas prize)...

But ZANU-PF stalwart and re-appointed Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa insists the opposition can claim no credit for the new dispensation...

Mnangagwa's appointment of Patrick Chinamasa as interim Finance Minister to replace Ignatius Chombo now in detention on corruption charges after $10 million was found in his house points to urgent efforts to raise foreign funds...

• Tuesday 7 November: Mugabe widens the purge and sacks three ministers and Mnangagwa allies: Cyber-Security Minister Patrick Chinamasa Environment Minister Oppah Muchinguri and Minister of State in the President's Office Chris Mushohwe...

The Auditor General has repeatedly raised red flags with Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa about ZMDC's funding and its mysterious joint ventures with a plethora of companies based in China in South Africa and offshore in Mauritius and the British Virgin Islands...

Meanwhile Mnangagwa tries to buttress his position through his alliance with the Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa who would pull off an impressive coup if he could bring to fruition the plan devised at the International Monetary Fund meetings in Lima Peru in 2015 to reschedule US$1...