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...
Tendai Biti the MDC Finance Minister talks of linking the Zimbabwe dollar to a basket of currencies such as the dollar and the rand...
He and his deputy the more strategically minded Tendai Biti may be able to take advantage of the shift in political momentum towards the MDC which has the support of many civil servants and professionals the business class and many outsiders...
With control of the Prime Minister's office (Morgan Tsvangirai) and Finance Ministry (Tendai Biti) the Movement for Democratic Change has been handed the tough issues of food jobs and land...
In the MDC-Tsvangirai Secretary General Tendai Biti party Spokesman Nelson Chamisa and Organising Secretary Elias Mudzuri have deep reservations about the power-sharing agreement although several are in cabinet...
Tsvangirai's MDC critics including Secretary General Tendai Biti think he has settled for too little...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 9 |
- ZIMBABWE
- CHINA
credit facility from China which had been negotiated by the Finance Ministry now under the control of Tendai Biti and the Movement for Democratic Change...
They took particular exception to responsibility for the police being given to an MDC minister – and in particular to the appointment of Tendai Biti an able lawyer who led the MDC-T negotiators and who has often been detained by the police as Home Affairs Minister...
In late June the MDC Secretary General Tendai Biti facing trumped up treason charges was released on Z$1 trillion bail...
Secretary General Tendai Biti opposes participation; others want to try to win concessions beforehand and stop the state-sponsored violence against its supporters (see map)...