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2025 Budget: A shallow, hollow, narcissistic and dishonest anti-people ritual

THE 2024 budget statement was presented in backdrop of a tough and challenging year for the working people of Zimbabwe. A year in which the citizen had been abused by extreme levels of inflation, emasculation by a rigged exchange rate, ext…

Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 18:47hrs | 736 | by Tendai Biti

Zimbabwe at a crossroads: a statement by Tendai Biti

Former finance minister and Harare East MP Tendai Biti has issued the following statement responding to claims that he is colluding with self-styled CCC interim secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu to recall elected CCC councillors, MPs and…

Published: 11 Nov 2023 at 15:56hrs | 18 | by Tendai Biti

Mnangagwa cannot fix Zimbabwe's crisis. He needs Chamisa WRITES Tendai Biti

Zimbabwe is in crisis. But to expect the ruling ZANU-PF government to resolve this is improbable at best. It is, more likely, impossible.Today nearly four out of every five Zimbabweans just about survives in absolute poverty. On average, Z…

Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 17:15hrs | 1 | by Tendai Biti

MDC congress: Redefining the people's agenda

This weekend the MDC will hold its elective congress in Gweru, Midlands province, under the theme Defining a new course for Zimbabwe. This is the 5th congress we are holding since February 1999, when we gathered at the Women's Bureau in Ha…

Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Tendai Biti

The fascists are trying to steal this election - says Tendai Biti

"We're going to fight this," Tendai Biti said grimly after the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) announced a landslide victory for the ruling Zanu-PF in Monday's parliamentary elections."The fascists are trying to steal this election, but…

Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 11:23hrs | 2599 | by Tendai Biti

Mugabe is gone - but the machinery of repression is alive and well

Tendai Biti, a member of the opposition MDC Alliance, is a constitutional lawyer who served as Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2013.The June 23 explosion at a campaign rally that killed two people and injured dozens came as a s…

Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 18:37hrs | | by Tendai Biti

The Paradox of an Independent Zimbabwe - Biti

Today Zimbabwe marks year 37 of Independence; the first quarter of 2017 has proved to be the worst for Zimbabweans, there is no hope for a solution from the state.Zimbabwe is arrested by an amalgamation of crises with linear dimensions whi…

Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 14:27hrs | 3 | by Tendai Biti

Tendai Biti's State of the Economy Address- Fulltext

STATE OF THE ECONOMY ADDRESS (SEA) BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) PRESIDENT, HONORABLE TENDAI BITI PRESENTED ON THE 9TH OF DECEMBER 2016 AT THE PDP PARTY OFFICES IN HARARE, AT 1300.INTRODUCTIONAs 2016 draws to an e…

Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 13:08hrs | 3 | by Tendai Biti

'Chinamasa's wings fully clipped'

On 8 September, 2016, Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa presented his long overdue Midyear Budgetary Review Statement.That review was presented in the context of massive structural challenges arresting the Zimbabwean economy.Chief among t…

Published: 14 Sep 2016 at 19:04hrs | 2 | by Tendai Biti

The case of a National Transitional Authority

Waiting for GodotWananchi, the motherland continues to heave and suffocate under the weight of a sterile oligarchy, exhausted and indeed frail nationalism, downright statism, indifference and inertia.For too long we have been poisoned by t…

Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 16:37hrs | 1 | by Tendai Biti

Chinamasa must resign over failure to pay civil servants

The failure by the Zanu-PF government to pay civil servants' salaries for two consecutive months of June and July 2016 is unacceptable and gross violations of the rights of the civil servants.It is the duty of every employer to pay salarie…

Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 16:37hrs | 2 | by Tendai Biti

Zimbabwe in the grip of a multiple of strands of crises

Zimbabwe is in the grip of a multiple of strands of crises, which we squarely blame on Zanu-PF's Robert Mugabe and Finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa.The events unfolding in the country clearly show that we are in serious crisis and that …

Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 17:21hrs | 4 | by Tendai Biti

The epicentre of Zimbabwe's devaluation lies in Zanu-PF and Zanu-PF alone

On April 18 2016, Zimbabwe will celebrate 36 years of independence.This will represent 36 years of Zanu-PF's hegemony over Zimbabwe under the same leader, Robert Mugabe.  In these 36 years, Zimbabweans have watched their lives being e…

Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 09:28hrs | 3 | by Tendai Biti

COP 21 Agreement; a door of hope, introspection

The Conference of Parties session 21 (COP 21) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) came to a close in the French capital of Paris on 13 December 2015 after more than two weeks of intense negotiations to …

Published: 15 Dec 2015 at 14:41hrs | 6 | by Tendai Biti

Tendai Biti's letter to Parliament

From the Office of the Secretary -GeneralThe Speaker Parliament of ZimbabweCnr Nelson Mandela/Third StreetHarareDear Sir,Re: Notice of the Suspension of Morgan Tsvangirai, Thokozani Khupe, Lovemore Moyo, Morgan Komichi, Nelson Chamisa, Abe…

Published: 30 Apr 2014 at 06:18hrs | | by Tendai Biti

Biti statement on Tsvangirai suspension - Full text

THE MDC-T, the country's main opposition party is in turmoil and faces a second bitter split after a group advocating leadership renewal met in Harare on Saturday and agreed to suspend party leader Morgan Tsvangirai and a number of those b…

Published: 29 Apr 2014 at 09:46hrs | 3 | by Tendai Biti

The opposition in Zimbabwe has failed, says Tendai Biti

This is the second part of of a series of MDC-T secretary general Tendai Biti's address to a SAPES Trust Policy Dialogue on March 6, 2014, in which he dissects the problems facing his party and other opposition parties that he says have fa…

Published: 19 Mar 2014 at 11:39hrs | 3958 | by Tendai biti

Zimbabwe in economic, political crisis - Biti

THIS is the first part of a series of MDC-T secretary general Tendai Biti's address to a SAPES Trust Policy Dialogue on March 6, 2014 in which he gives his take on the state of the economy and domestic politics among other things.GOOD even…

Published: 17 Mar 2014 at 09:41hrs | 13 | by Tendai Biti

Mugabe clueless, stuck on the economy, says Biti

Seven months into the new Zanu-PF administration, the country is slowly but surely grinding to a debilitating halt while the economy sinks into a comatose position in the midst of clueless hand-wringing by authorities, indicating a clear l…

Published: 15 Feb 2014 at 21:38hrs | | by Tendai Biti

'What is wrong with Zimbabweans,' asks Tendai Biti

Wananchi, pessimism is a chronic disease which corrodes internal confidence and self belief.Our people sadly are caught up with this terrible predatory ailment that is consuming the internal boundaries of their intestines, their being and …

Published: 12 Jan 2014 at 09:16hrs | 7 | by Tendai Biti

Our spirit of resilience, says Tendai Biti

Wananchi, the goat month draws to an end and not many will shed tears to see the echoes of its ironic laughter.It has been a long month, with even longer scars and shadows of pain planted across the land.The citizen has been put to the tes…

Published: 03 Dec 2013 at 08:52hrs | | by Tendai Biti

First 100 days of the new Zanu-PF government after elections

In the first 100 days of the new Zanu-PF government after elections, the citizen has seen a lot of hubris, but which is hollow and unfounded. There has hardly been any second for a honeymoon or a little moment for celebration. Not that the…

Published: 29 Nov 2013 at 05:17hrs | | by Tendai Biti

Tendai Biti returns to law practice with new firm

It hit me the other day that life is about keys and locks. More appropriately changing keys.The story of life is measured in keys, those that are changed or not changed. Those that are lost and never recovered.So when the Englishman talks …

Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 09:04hrs | 3 | by Tendai Biti

Tendai Biti's advise to Zimbabwe's new minister on mines

The country's diamonds have acquired such notoriety for all the wrong reasons, corruption, arbitrage, rent and opaqueness.Without a doubt therefore Walter Chidakwa, the new Minister of Mines owes Zimbabweans a duty of care in ensuring a fu…

Published: 18 Sep 2013 at 15:34hrs | | by Tendai Biti

Tendai Biti's take on Mugabe's Cabinet

 Wananchi, the new Cabinet was finally announced on Tuesday 10 September 2013, and many Zimbabweans are still grasping with shock and disbelief.The whole essence of an executive is to be able to competently and honestly confront the h…

Published: 11 Sep 2013 at 19:56hrs | | by Tendai Biti

Tendai Biti's take on Mugabe's Cabinet

Wananchi, the delay in the announcement of a new Cabinet is clearly exacerbating the state of fear and anxiety in the country.I have made the point before that for the whole of 2013 ,the economy has been on freeze, incapable of movement be…

Published: 10 Sep 2013 at 06:03hrs | 3 | by Tendai Biti

'Mutambara has joined the bandwagon,' says Biti

Wananchi, if the election of Jacob Mudenda as Speaker of Parliament is anything to go by then this country is heading for reversal, regression and more sterility.This man has been a round for a long time.Now in the late summer of his life …

Published: 04 Sep 2013 at 18:48hrs | 4 | by Tendai Biti

How Sadc slammed the door on democracy - Biti

So it thus came as a surprise a few weeks ago when Sadc leaders chose Zimbabwe as the next chair of Sadc. How do you appoint amongst you, the most contested.Zimbabwe had been in the agenda of Sadc incessantly since March 2007.It had been t…

Published: 02 Sep 2013 at 17:00hrs | 3 | by Tendai Biti

'Zim inflation was 500,000,000,000% when I became FM,' says Biti

Wananchi, I said my farewells to the staff at the Ministry of Finance.Zimbabwe's greatest asset is its people, when they work together as a team for the national good. In that regard they do not come any better than the men and women in Bl…

Published: 21 Aug 2013 at 13:37hrs | 2 | by Tendai Biti

'Even those that they killed shamelessly during Gukurahundi have embraced them' - Biti

WE LIVE in horrible times surrounded by horrible man. Man we have always assumed human, rational and real. They are not.Since late Wednesday, July 31, we have been walking like zombies, drowning in dark shadows of pain and disbelief, hopin…

Published: 03 Aug 2013 at 06:58hrs | 4 | by Tendai Biti

My take on Zanu-PF's Manifesto by Tendai Biti

I trust you are holding out in these difficult times. As the great one wrote, it is a long walk to freedom.They are still executing their sick and ill thought plan of stealing this election through a corrupted voters roll, a manipulated sp…

Published: 16 Jul 2013 at 13:48hrs | 4 | by Tendai Biti

Tendai Biti on Zimbabwe's elections preparedness

In light of the SADC Maputo resolutions, which directed that Zimbabwe implements key reforms especially on media, security sector and legislative before elections, Zanu-PF has blatantly disregarded the SADC call.One of the key reforms as r…

Published: 11 Jul 2013 at 12:50hrs | 3 | by Tendai Biti

Zim dollar backed by gold is 'undiluted rubbish'

Wananchi, as I stated in my last post, it is that season where every second is history and each hour brings its own unlimited bandwidth of fresh data and information. I warned in yet another post of the danger of being swallowed and engulf…

Published: 07 Jul 2013 at 15:51hrs | | by Tendai Biti

The nomination court came, sat and went

Yesterday was a hive of activity as individuals and political parties strove to file their papers on time.There were challenges throughout. Chief among these was the lack of knowledge of the law own the part of presiding officers.Thus in s…

Published: 30 Jun 2013 at 14:11hrs | | by Tendai Biti

Sadc rose to the occasion, scuttles Mugabe's machinations

Good people, good good people,it has been an incredible and unbelievable day here in this great beautiful coastal capital of Maputo.SADC rose to the occasion and scuttled the evil and Machiavellian machinations of the chaos faction of Zanu…

Published: 15 Jun 2013 at 16:17hrs | 1 | by Tendai Biti

US sanctions harmful to the generality of Zimbabweans - Biti

The following is a letter by Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Tendai Biti to the United States Treasury, expressing his disquiet with a decision to impose a ban on diamonds from Marange: 19 December 2011Charles CollynsAssistant Secretary o…

Published: 18 Jan 2012 at 07:29hrs | | by Tendai Biti

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