That assessment is economically and politically significant as next month Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is due to meet creditors to discuss plans to pay off Zimbabwe's debt arrears and regain access to funding from the international financial institutions...
Other appointees to the Central Committee include the irrepressibly upbeat Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube who has redoubled his political loyalty to the party although initially hired as a technocrat...
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission recently halted all tenders to tackle the 'cartels' – business networks linked to powerful government individuals – bidding to supply everything from laptops to government vehicles at inflated prices...
One such is being pursued by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube who has enlisted Akinwimi Adesina President of the African Development Bank to back a debt restructuring with Zimbabwe's creditors including the World Bank the Paris Club and other bilateral lenders (AC Vol 60 No 6 Ncube wins foreign fans)...
A Kuvimba dividend distribution ceremony in 2021 featured outsize cheques with small values doled out to dispossessed white farmers and war veterans in the presence of finance minister Mthuli Ncube...
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed him Minister of State for Security in 2018 the news was released quietly after the announcement of the official post-election cabinet which had been padded with 'reformist' candidates like finance minister Mthuli Ncube and sports minister Kirsty Coventry intended to demonstrate goodwill to the West...
In August a group was arrested for demanding their pensions at Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's office...
Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank Governor John Mangudya said over half would be used to prop up the Zimbabwe dollar...
In November Mthuli Ncube threatened to withdraw the licences of fuel operators who reject payments in Zimbabwe dollars...
Brown and Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube have not explained how privately held assets bought using offshore capital suddenly belonged to the state...
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Despite the pandemic and global recession Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is predicting a strong economic bounce-back next year – but he is silent about a phenomenal borrowing spree by the central bank the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) which has seen its foreign debt nearly double within a year...
In October Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said the loans are 'structured around commodities… supported by gold platinum and so on...
Rejecting the gathering gloom about the national economy Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube released a budget strategy paper on 16 October forecasting the economy would grow by 7...
The country is seeking 'guarantees from financiers even sovereign partners to improve the credit risk profile' of the bonds to boost the confidence of potential investors Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube told Bloomberg...