The most likely cabinet moves are of former Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa (who held his seat in Goromonzi) who will go sideways to Foreign Affairs to be replaced by Mnangagwa (seen by business as having more muscle than Murerwa and more able to push an austerity programme through cabinet)...
Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa estimates that defence spending will grow by 62 per cent next year to Z$9 billion...
Employers forecast pay increases averaging 40 per cent a year over the next two years undermining Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa's hopes of reining in the public sector deficit...
Mugabe's admiration for Mahathir-style policies restrains economic reformers such as Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa and Reserve Bank Governor Leonard Tsumba (both are strongly endorsed by the local International Monetary Fund representative Robert Franco)...
He once won the provincial leadership of Mashonaland East but stepped down in favour of yet another ex-diplomat Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa - who is ruled out by the current economic chaos even if this is not entirely his fault...
The big economic decisions should be made by the Reserve Bank governor Leonard Tsumba and by the Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa...
Trying to staunch the outward flow of funds Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa hiked up interest rates to 28...
M'nangagwa does not appear to regard being passed over for the Finance portfolio in favour of Herbert Murerwa (AC Vol 37 No 11) as an irredeemable political loss...
The most significant name at President Robert Gabriel Mugabe's two-hour press conference on 9 May when he announced his reshuffle was that of Herbert Murerwa confirmed in the job of Finance Minister after acting as such since Ariston Chambati' s death (AC Vol 36 No 20) last year...
