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...
The idea of the retreat was to bring the former sworn opponents together in Zimbabwe's most expensive and picturesque hotel to consider proposals from the new Finance Minister Tendai Biti...
The decision to drop the Zimbabwe dollar was taken by Finance Minister Tendai Biti and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono then confirmed by the Council of Ministers...
Finance Minister Tendai Biti has emerged as the key figure in Zimbabwe's economic recovery walking the uneasy path between securing external finance from sceptical outsiders and dealing with his crafty colleagues from President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front...
In London for the G-20 summit on 2 April African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka told Africa Confidential that Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Tendai Biti was making headway: ‘Since this global political accord things are much better than they were six months ago...
Aside from the detainees the most conspicuous tension is between Finance Minister Tendai Biti and Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono who countermand each other's directives...