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George Guvamatanga gave company 'illegal' bank guarantee on $20 million loan
Treasury secretary George Guvamatanga has been accused of providing an "illegal and unconstitutional" bank guarantee for a US$20 million loan to a seed company linked to command agriculture corruption...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 20:32hrs | 6604 | by Staff reporter
'Mutapa Investment Fund mustn't become conduit for looting'
AS prevalence of public sector corruption reaches alarming levels, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has demanded that Zimbabwean authorities ensure the newly-established Mutapa Investment Fund (M...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 09:09hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
Biti disowns Tshabangu dinner
Zimbabwean opposition veteran Tendai Biti says claims circulating on the social media saying he has had dinner with controversial activist Sengezo Tshabangu who is behind the ongoing CCC MPs, senators...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 13:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MPs blast Zacc for low convictions
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) parliamentarians have condemned the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) over the low number of convictions referred to the police despite the rampant illici...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 18:43hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Biti says availed voters roll copy is a 'crime scene'
OUTGOING Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Member Of Parliament Tendai Biti has described the availed current voters' roll as a "crime scene" demanding an urgent national audit.This comes af...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:58hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Biti says pharmacy licence cancellation illegal
FORMER finance minister, Tendai Biti, says the suspension and cancellation of trading licences for pharmaceutical companies for flouting foreign exchange regulations is "blatantly illegal, puerile and...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:45hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti says Zimbabwe is being run by kleptomaniac Govt
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy leader Tendai Biti says Zimbabwe is being run by a kleptomaniac government and there is a desperate need for change ahead of the upcoming general elections....Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'White commercial interests dominating Zimbabwe,' says Biti
HARARE East legislator who is a Former Finance Minister and one of the leaders of Nelson Chamisa's Citizens' Coalition for Change Tendai Biti says Zimbabwe government's land ownership structure was st...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti says state repression, corruption worse after Mugabe coup
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy president Tendai Biti says the November 2017 military coup that installed incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa in place of late former leader Robert ...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti questions Zimbabwe external debt figure
FORMER Finance minister and Harare East legislator Tendai Biti has questioned the country's current external debt and says that the actual figure was likely higher than what government has disclosed....Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti says 'Magistrate being unfair'
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) interim vice-president Tendai Biti, who is accused of verbally assaulting a Russian investor, has filed another application at the High Court challenging the way pr...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti says Mnangagwa regime 'incorrigible'
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy leader, Tendai Biti, has condemned the attempted abduction of party activist Makomborero Haruzivishe.Biti denounced the Monday night attack saying Pr...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Biti tells Zimbabwe govt to shutdown the Reserve Bank
FORMER finance minister Tendai Biti says government must shut down the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) arguing it has become a rogue and unnecessary institution.Speaking at a Zimbabwe Debt Inda...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Biti says Mangudya is a fool
FORMER finance minister Tendai Biti has described the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor as a fool, saying his monetary policies are insufficient to tame inflation.Biti said this in a scathing ...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 16:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti in attempted kidnapping?
MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance vice president Tendai Biti says he, for a moment, felt as if he was at the heart of Taliban-ruled Afghani capital Kabul after escaping an alleged Monday n...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Biti says Mthuli Ncube is 'clueless and incompetent'
FORMER Finance Minister Tendai Biti says the current head of Treasury Mthuli Ncube is "clueless and incompetent" who hopes that God or the spirit of Mbuya Nehanda will keep the economy afloat....Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:48hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Biti says the introduction of $50 note is criminal
TOP economists are confident that the new $50 notes, introduced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Tuesday, will not trigger inflationary pressures.However, former Finance Minister Tendai Biti di...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 16:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti cries fraud over parliament recall
MDC Alliance co-vice-president Tendai Biti says his purported recall, together with several other MPs, at the behest of a "political nonentity" Benjamin Rukanda, who once belonged to his breakaway Peo...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 08:13hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Biti says recalls meant to stymie his probe into 'Sakunda corruption'
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) asked Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda Wednesday to expel MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti and five other legislators who are former members of the opposi...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 18:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti says recalls meant to paralyse Parliament's Public Accounts Committee
Recalled Tendai Biti, who is MDC Alliance vice-president, claims that recalls from Parliament by a faction of the PDP working in cahoots with the ruling Zanu-PF party were meant to paralyse Parliament...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti tackles Mnangagwa's govt over Covid-19 funding
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti says government has not been transparent over its fiscal and financial issues on Covid-19-related matters, adding there has been a mixture of lack of accountability...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 17:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 won't be defeated by empty political rhetoric, says Biti
Zimbabwean former Finance minister Tendai Biti, also main opposition MDC Alliance deputy president, says the virulent Covid-19 pandemic, surging and killing more people, won't be defeated by empty pol...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 16:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges Zimbabweans to stop attending private parties
Zimbabwe's ex-Finance minister and opposition MDC Alliance deputy leader Tendai Biti says the fact that the country's key political leaders and their business cronies are under Covid-19 siege locally ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti slaps Russian woman with $15 million counter-suit
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has filed a Z$15 million counter-lawsuit against a Russian woman who accused him of assault after calling her a "very stupid idiot," leading to his arrest last ...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 16:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mafume in Monday bail hearing
INCARCERATED Harare mayor Jacob Mafume's bail hearing has been set for this Monday at the High Court.The MDC Alliance official faces charges of attempting to bribe a state witness in his corru...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:12hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
How South Africa can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability
What's new? As Zimbabwe's political and economic crises worsen, South Africa is moving beyond its policy of "quiet diplomacy" with its northern neighbour and applying more pressure on Harare to open...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by crisisgroup
Biti says RBZ forex auction system headed for collapse
FORMER Finance Minister and legislator Tendai Biti has dismissed the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) foreign currency auction system as a charade that is set implode once all economic fundamentals begi...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
White farmers lease farms as beneficiaries give up, says Biti
MDC Alliance co-vice president Tendai Biti says a growing number of white commercial farmers are quietly returning back to their farms and leasing the land from non-productive black beneficiaries who ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
MLF is unfazed by Biti's beliefs
As MLF, we are unfazed by the beliefs of the student of history, Tendai Biti. In a voice note circulating on social network, Biti is heard saying he believes in a unitary zimbabwe, he does not believe...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 16:21hrs | 1 | by MLF
Mnangagwa to blame for xenophobia - Biti
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti says the President Emmerson Mnangagwa is responsible for the xenophobic attacks suffered by Zimbabweans in South Africa as his government has failed to attend t...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 14:45hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
'The world is watching Zimbabwe' ex-British Ambassador says
Ex-British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton says he is praying for the nation of Zimbabwe as the country heads towards a period of mass protests called by the opposition MDC beginning Friday Augus...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 15:40hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa redefines corruption'
MDC Vice President Tendai Biti says President Emmerson Mnangagwa has redefined the meaning of corruption through the grand theft of USD$ 3 Billion which was stole through the opaque Command Agricultur...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 19:51hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Tendai Biti says Mugabe was better than Mnangagwa
MDC Deputy President Tendai Biti says former President Robert Mugabe was better than the current Present Emmerson Mnangagwa. In a video that has gone viral on social media, Biti is heard sayin...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 18:54hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tendai Biti speaks on ZESA blackout
MDC Vice President Tendai Biti says the Emmerson Mnangagwa led government will not be able to fix the current socio-economic challenges bedevilling the country. Zimbabwe is currently facing ca...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 10:09hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
LIVE: Tendai Biti responds to Mthuli Ncube
MDC 1st Vice President Tendai Laxton Biti is being interviewed by Zimbo Live TV to give his view on currency changes that were effected through SI 142 of 2019 by Professor Mthuli Ncube. ...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 20:55hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'ZANU PF now a threat to the country' says Biti
MDC Vice President Tendai Biti says the SI 142 of 2019 gazetted on Monday by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is the last straw that shall lead to the removal of ZANU PF from power. On Monday Ncu...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 10:23hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti challenges Ramaphosa
MDC Deputy National Chair Tendai Biti says President Ramaphosa has a key role to play in resolving the crisis in Zimbabwe. And he warned: 'If Zimbabwe implodes South Africa will suffer'.Biti w...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:44hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Biti says, 'Mthuli is a loud mouth that doesn't have a connection with its brain'
Wednesday 5 June 2019 saw Honourable Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe's former and without doubt most successful Finance Minister this Century, visit Chatham House in Westminster, London.Honourable Tenda...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 08:46hrs | 2 | by Thabo Makuyana
WATCH: Biti says they will drag Zanu-PF screaming and screeching
WATCH: Biti says they will drag Zanu-PF screaming and screechinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_49Zq3uPsag...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti vs Mthuli: Transcript
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube on Wednesday faced MPs' questions on the economy, in a session marked by a new round of heated policy debate with Tendai Biti, a former Finance Minister.Highlight...Published: 30 May 2019 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Hansard
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe broke, says Biti
PARLIAMENT'S Public Accounts Committee chairperson Tendai Biti says the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is effectively broke after government ran up its overdraft facility with the bank to finance its ...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
LIVE: Tendai Biti says Reserve Bank is broke
MDC Deputy National Chairperson and Public Finance Parliamentary Portfolio Chairperson Hon Tendai Biti is addressing live at the British Council speaking on : Zimbabwe At The Crossroads: Economi...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 17:32hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'RTGS$ a failed fraud' Tendai Biti says
Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti says the recently introduced RTGS$ currency has failed to maintain a steady exchange rate thereby affecting people's savings. "The RTGS$ is a failed fraud. ...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:56hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans counting the cost of removing Mugabe
IN AN ideal world, the fall of Robert Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe was supposed to usher in a period of sustained economic growth and prosperity.Mugabe, 95, was toppled by his loyalists in ...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 19:39hrs | | by Brighton Khumalo
Biti opens up on Mnangagwa's 476 days in office
MDC Deputy National Chairperson Tendai Biti says Mnangagwa's 476 days since he took office after a bloody coup in November 2017 have been characterized by corruption, rape and killing.Said Bit...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 15:22hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Why Zimbabwe is fed up with using the U.S. dollar
A decade after Zimbabwe scrapped its own currency to tackle hyperinflation and began using instead mainly the U.S. dollar, the economy is back in free fall. Fuel and banknotes are hard to come by, les...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 18:52hrs | | by Mike Cohen
Tendai Biti speaks on today's monetary policy statement
Former Minister of finance Tendai Biti says today's Monetary Policy Statement should devalue the Bondnotes and strengthen the multi currency regime that was introduces in 2009.Reserve Bank of ...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 08:58hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa is a fascist' Biti fumes
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is leading a fascist government that champions corruption, abuse of democracy and patronage, Movement for Democratic Change Deputy National Chairperson Tendai Biti has all...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 13:50hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tendai Biti speaks on fuel crisis
MDC Deputy National Chairperson Tendai Biti says the fuel queues in Zimbabwe are the most bizarre ever seen and must be captured on camera and kept as a documentary as a reminder of the difficult phas...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 08:40hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti demands Zec server
MDC vice-chairperson Tendai Biti, who is being charged for announcing false presidential election results, has demanded that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) produce a server in court to prove ...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
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