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...

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...

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...