Tendai Laxton Biti

Since Finance Minister Tendai Biti suspended the Zimbabwe dollar and adopted the United States dollar and South African rand as legal tender inflation fell from an official 231 million percent in July 2008 to an average of 6% in 2009...

MDC Finance Minister Tendai Biti opposes the idea and says that the South African rand and the US dollar will remain the national currencies until 2012 when they could be replaced by a common currency in the Southern African Development Community...

While Gono told Harare's businessmen how the new gold purchasing agreement would boost the banking industry MDC Finance Minister Tendai Biti announced a national budget of just $2...

Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono who continues to battle with MDC Finance Minister Tendai Biti over control of the economy said that ‘significant’ sums from the deal were already with local financial institutions...

At the cabinet meeting on 24 November Mujuru insured herself against another harvest failure and launched an emotional attack on Finance Minister Tendai Biti for not using International Monetary Fund money to purchase and distribute agricultural inputs...

When the MDC Finance Minister and chief strategist Tendai Biti suspended the national currency in February it took away ZANU-PF's capacity to print local money and control the foreign exchange markets thus shutting many of its political friends out of the economy...

Several African bankers who attended the Zimbabwe roadshows in Cape Town on 10-12 June told Africa Confidential they would open negotiations having been convinced to sign up by Finance Minister Tendai Biti Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara and Harare's omnipresent financial baron Nigel Chanakira...

ZANU-PF backbenchers were equally outraged at Gono's instruction to return the vehicles not to him but to Tendai Biti's Finance Ministry...

Finance Minister Tendai Biti told Africa Confidential that amnesty talks were going on...

Tendai Biti did not mince his words...