World Bank President Robert Zoellick told reporters Zimbabwe's new Finance Minister, Tendai Biti, would attend the Spring meetings of the bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week. "One, we would certainly like to (assist Zimbabwe). We had early missions with the African Development Bank to try…

The Financial Gazette has established that not only is pressure coming from within the rank and file of the MDC-T, especially the youth league which Chamisa led from its formation in 1999 until 2006, but also from the ZANU-PF hardliners content on seeing the youthful Minister quit his…

In an interview this week, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Lovemore Moyo, said the 25-member select committee had chosen Mangwana and Mwonzora, both lawyers, to co-chair the committee while the country’s principals to the Global Political Agreement continue to deliberate on the appointment of a non-lawmaker…

A myriad of problems, including the lack of transport and poor allowances, are seriously affecting the MPs who are failing to effectively discharge their duties as required by the Constitution — amended 19 times since the country gained its Independence from Britain in 1980.The recent scramble for vehicles…

In an interview this week, the Clerk of Parliament, Austin Zvoma, said the requirement for the declaration of assets was brought about by Parliamentary reforms in 2000, but to date not a single lawmaker has declared his or her assets because mechanisms for the provision’s implementation have not…

Last week, the co-ministers of Home Affairs Kembo Mohadi and Giles Mutsekwa held a three-hour meeting with Bishops Sebastian Bakare and Nolbert Kunonga over what sources claimed was the government’s exasperation over the “unchristian” behaviour of the Anglican Church. The sources said the ministers ordered the bishops to…

The post fell vacant following the tragic death of Elliot Manyika from injuries sustained in a car crash last December.ZANU-PF insiders said the matter was no longer urgent since the restructuring of the party’s provincial executives had been completed.“The appointment of the political commissar is no longer an…

Tensions within the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) heightened at the weekend after the Office of the President and Cabinet announced that Chamisa had been stripped of control over the communication portfolio, which was handed to Nicholas Goche, the Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development.Goche’s ministry has now…

Obama told Motlanthe at the Group of 20 meeting in London recently that his officials will review legislation that prevents US representatives in multilateral institutions such as the IMF from authorising loans to Zimbabwe.Motlanthe made the comments to reporters in Pretoria recently.Zimbabwe needs between US$8 billion and US$10…