Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa said the groundwork had been laid for Zimbabwe to clear its arrears and an IMF mission led by Domenico Fanizza which was in Harare from 24 February to 11 March had completed a favourable review of a 15-month Staff Monitored Programme which should to expedite the process...
The Minister of Finance and Economic Development Patrick Chinamasa said last month that Zimbabwe would officially implement the Chinese yuan as a reserve currency of the central bank...
The move has sharply divided President Robert Mugabe's government and strong opposition to Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa who is in charge of the initiative is building within ZANU- PF...
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa presented his mid-year review revising downward the prediction for economic growth from 3...
In early April Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa suspended bonuses for civil servants for 2015 and 2016 saying the government did not have the money...
The IMF team led by Domenico Fanizza had been in Harare at the beginning of March and in painstaking discussions with Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Reserve Bank Governor John Mangudya had indicated that cuts to the government's bloated wage bill would include the suspension of the annual Christmas bonus...
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa has already been making noises to that effect on the grounds that the costs of various as-yet-unappointed civil rights commissioners as well as the number of parliamentarians and provincial councils constitute an unnecessary burden...
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa revealed the fact the government was bailing out a private concern on 11 September probably inadvertently...
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa told Parliament on 3 September that China would not give budgetary support but only finance for viable and bankable projects in infrastructure roads railway rehabilitation water and sanitation...
The current Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa was said to have entered into one such agreement with Richard Yates a white former farmer he evicted in 2003 from his 800-hectare Tsukumai Farm in Headlands east of Harare...