But Finance Minister Simba Makoni had little choice with the Zimbabwean dollar under heavy pressure after last year's devaluation and the government struggling to meet foreign obligations with arrears to suppliers in South Africa mounting fast...
He has not done so despite the advice of his Finance Minister Simba Makoni who has been trying to repair relations with creditors and Western donors...
Last year Finance Minister Simba Makoni said the Congo campaign was costing Z$1 billion (US$18 million) a month; officials say the monthly bill has risen to an estimated Z$1...
If reforming Finance Minister Simba Makoni won every single argument with Mugabe life would still get tougher for most people...
Economic Affairs went to Richard Hove with Simba Makoni as his deputy...
The reform group: backed by the younger ZANU-PF activists it favours elevation of new technocratic ministers Nkosana Moyo and Joseph Wade and their colleague Finance Minister Simba Makoni as new leader...
Vol 41 No 20 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
New Finance Minister Simba Makoni is against the Congo intervention: a deal with the International Monetary Fund is impossible while the intervention continues and Makoni like other reform-minded ministers wants a quick but honourable exit...
The issue is not what has to be done on economic reform new Finance Minister Simba Makoni told a friend but whether the ministers will be allowed to do it...
We hear SADC's former Executive Secretary Simba Makoni is a strong runner for that job...
When a strong provincial candidate has national political ambitions such as Simba Makoni (former Secretary of the Southern African Development Community) the centre will insist on that candidate's defeat...
Simba Makoni who belongs to neither the Kangai or Mutasa faction was pushed out completely...
