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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, emas...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 18:47hrs | 731 | 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 ...Published: 11 Nov 2023 at 15:56hrs | 12 | 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 ab...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 17:15hrs | | 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 ...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Southern Africa's problem of political elite impunity
Former South African deputy foreign affairs minister Aziz Pahad's support for the Maduro regime in Venezuela throws into sharp relief the acceptance by political elites in Southern Africa of die-hard ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Tendai Biti and Mills
'Mthuli Ncube's budget is a waste of time'
IT is a great pleasure to debate the 2019 national budget. This budget, Honourable Speaker Sir, could not have come at a time of greater fragility and greater vulnerability of our country....Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:14hrs | | 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 ...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 11:23hrs | | 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 k...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 18:37hrs | | by Tendai Biti
The Global Advocacy trip by the MDC Alliance delegation: A big achievement and a strategic move
1.We wish to acknowledge the interest generated by the trip to the US and that it is fundamental that there be adequate communication to clear the myths. The MDC understands the importance of accounta...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 12:12hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa and Tendai Biti
Grace Mugabe unplugged
The furore around Grace Mugabe, her sons, their behaviour and the Mugabe family properties in South Africa illustrates the axiom: Their enrichment has come at the expense of Zimbabweans.There ...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 12:51hrs | | by Tendai Biti and Greg Mills
Chinamasa's Trafigura deal; a betrayal of the working people of Zimbabwe
The announcement by Minister Chinamasa that he has found the US 1,1 billion needed to pay what Zimbabwe owes to the World Bank should cause distress to any right thinking Zimbabwean.The inte...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 20:03hrs | | by Tendai Biti PDP President
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 am...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 14:27hrs | | by Tendai Biti
PDP President Tendai Biti Address at the signing of the Coalition of Democrats (CODE) Agreement
Anglican Cathedral of Saint Mary's and All Saints Church HarareThursday, February 16, 2017PresidentsGilbert Dzikiti Elton Mangoma Edwin Mushoriwa Laura Makuzha ...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 13:54hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Why bond notes can't save Zimbabwe, and what ordinary citizens can do -
The government of Zimbabwe is again trying to pull a fast one on its citizens. The Zimbabwe dollar was abandoned in 2009 after the government ran the p...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 16:17hrs | | by Tendai Biti and Todd Moss
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...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 13:08hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Biti's Address at the People's Democratic Party First Policy Conference - Fulltext
Rajiv Gandhi HallHarare ShowgroundsSaturday, 26 November 2016Vice President - Kucaca PhuluNational Chairperson - Mai MatibengaDeputy National Chairperson - Thab...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 11:06hrs | | by Tendai Biti - PDP President
'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 challe...Published: 14 Sep 2016 at 19:04hrs | | 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 ...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 16:37hrs | | 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....Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 16:37hrs | | by Tendai Biti
PDP calls for an urgent convergence of all democratic forces in Zimbabwe
Tendai Biti, the President of PDP is making a clarion call to all the democratic forces within Zimbabwe to converge urgently and give Mugabe 30 days to leave office.The time has now come for u...Published: 15 Jul 2016 at 15:49hrs | | 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 clear...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 17:21hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Tendai Biti's statement on the state economy
Introduction The Zimbabwean economy is grinding to a halt with clear evidence that the economy if fast tracking into deep seated economic recession. It ...Published: 11 Apr 2016 at 14:39hrs | | 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 year...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 09:28hrs | | 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 tha...Published: 15 Dec 2015 at 14:41hrs | | 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,...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 an...Published: 29 Apr 2014 at 09:46hrs | | 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 pr...Published: 19 Mar 2014 at 11:39hrs | | 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 th...Published: 17 Mar 2014 at 09:41hrs | | 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-w...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...Published: 12 Jan 2014 at 09:16hrs | | 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 acro...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 litt...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 a...Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 09:04hrs | 1 | 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 ...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 ...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 econ...Published: 10 Sep 2013 at 06:03hrs | | 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...Published: 04 Sep 2013 at 18:48hrs | | 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 ...Published: 02 Sep 2013 at 17:00hrs | | 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 n...Published: 21 Aug 2013 at 13:37hrs | | 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, d...Published: 03 Aug 2013 at 06:58hrs | 1 | 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 t...Published: 16 Jul 2013 at 13:48hrs | 1 | 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 t...Published: 11 Jul 2013 at 12:50hrs | | 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 t...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 ...Published: 30 Jun 2013 at 14:11hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Biti reacts to Chinamasa's court application
Unedited extract from Tendai Biti's Facebook Timeline: Good people, I have read with great regret and trepidati...Published: 20 Jun 2013 at 12:08hrs | | 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 Machiav...Published: 15 Jun 2013 at 16:17hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Tendai Biti's self-introspection
ON JANUARY 30, 2009, the MDC National Council, by a narrow margin, made the bold decision of being part of the Inclusive Government pursuant to the execution by the political leadership of the three...Published: 31 Aug 2012 at 13:00hrs | | by Tendai Biti, MP
Post Budget Developments in the Zim Economy - Tendai Biti
This is a press statement on Post Budget Developments in the Zimbabwean Economy presented by the Finance Minister, Tendai Biti...Published: 25 Jan 2012 at 13:38hrs | | 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 diamo...Published: 18 Jan 2012 at 07:29hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Zimbabwe 2012 Budget Highlights
Excerpts from Finance Minister Tendai Biti’s 2012 national Budget Statement presented to parlia...Published: 25 Nov 2011 at 05:02hrs | | by Tendai Biti
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