Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa

Is Patrick Chinamasa Ready for Ministerial Harakiri?- Welshman Ncube

Posted on September 16, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

This year has been pretty hectic for my learned friend and former Cabinet colleague Zimbabwe Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa. Patrick is a consummate politician, who in spite of the negative public image he has in many circles, mostly justly earned for having been at the forefront of the legal and media justification for ZANU PF’s land grab policies and the attendant attacks on the judiciary, is honest, possesses a beautiful work ethic, loves his…

Zimbabwe government starts large scale civil service restructuring based on Malaysia’s restructuring

Posted on September 11, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Zimbabwe government has embarked on a large scale civil service restructuring exercise shaped on Malaysia’s restructuring. Malaysia is a country whose civil service restructuring is ‘said’ to have been effective, based on its Blue Ocean Strategy on Public Service Delivery Transformation. With the Zimbabwe’s Treasury registering approximately 97 percent of Government revenue going out to civil service wages ultimately losing millions of dollars in civil service wages. At least 25, 000 civil service posts will effectively be shed by the broke, overwhelmed Zanu pf regime based…

‘Opposition are working on a post Mugabe era, incase old man Mugabe is called by God’-ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa

Posted on August 28, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa (pictured) has revealed that opposition political parties are strategising on a post President Robert Mugabe era to ensure that there is peace and stability in the country.Speaking at the Zapu congress in Bulawayo yesterday, Dabengwa said opposition political parties have met and discussed possible scenarios in the event that Mugabe steps down or dies in office. “We have to look as to where we will be if the government falls….

ZIMBABWE, not off the hook: UK envoy

Posted on August 1, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

BRITISH ambassador to Zimbabwe, Catriona Laing has reiterated that her country has not dumped its stance on President Robert Mugabe’s regime. Speaking at a Southern African Political and Economic Series (Sapes) Trust-organised public meeting on Thursday, Laing said Zimbabwe remained among 30 countries the United Kingdom (UK) has placed on a rights priority list and denied reports her country was propping up Mugabe. The discussion came hours after a group of youths picketed at…

-Opposition Parties Are Not Going To Get Any Meaningful Reforms Implemented Before 2018 General Elections’-Tendai Biti

Posted on June 28, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Tendai Biti admits the opposition parties are not going to get any meaningful reforms implemented before the next elections. The interesting question is the admission enough to open Zimbabwe’s naive and gullible electorate’s eyes to finally see MDC leaders for what they really are – useless, corrupt and incompetent to the man and woman? “The biggest crisis facing this economy is a breakdown of trust, a breakdown of the social contract — people don’t trust…

‘Chinamasa & , Mangudya Lies Exposed ‘:Bond Notes, Clandestine Replacement Of Illegally Withdrawn US$1,8 Billion ’-Biti

Posted on May 23, 2016May 23, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

’ FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti has accused his successor, Patrick Chinamasa and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, John Mangudya of lying that the bond notes were meant to address the cash crunch, yet it was a clandestine way to replace the $1,8 billion illegally withdrawn from the central bank’s Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) balances to monetise government expenditure. Tendai Biti, leader of the opposition, told delegates at a Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition public…

Gvt Blew US$400m On Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim-Asset) In 2015

Posted on May 15, 2016May 15, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Government spent more than US$400 million on projects under the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation in 2015, with more resources expected to be channelled towards energy, housing, agriculture and other areas. Zim-Asset, adopted in 2013, is Zimbabwe’s foremost economic blueprint and covers infrastructure and utilities, social services and poverty eradication, food security and nutrition as well as value addition and beneficiation through to 2018. In a letter of intent to the IMF contained in…

Former RBZ Governor ‘Moyana’ Perplex By Zanu PF Regime’s Leisurely Approach To National Crisis

Posted on May 14, 2016May 18, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

FINANCE minister Patrick Chinamasa continues to take brick-bats from Zimbabweans across the political divide with respected former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Kombo Moyana the latest high-profile person to tell the government it is lost. Chinamasa almost blew his top during a heated public discussion organised by the Southern African Political and Economic Series (Sapes) Trust on Thursday, where economists argued against the re-introduction of the country’s comatose currency. Moyana, Zimbabwe’s first black head of…

The Broke Zanu PF Regime, Blew US$2Million On Mugabe’s Three Hour Meeting With War Vets

Posted on May 5, 2016May 5, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

THE cash-strapped government last month blew $2 million to fund President Robert Mugabe’s three-hour meeting with war veterans at a time Treasury owed over $23 million in school fees for the former freedom fighters’ children, it has emerged. Initially, the indaba, held on April 7 at City Sports Centre in Harare, had been allocated $250 000, but the bill mysteriously ballooned to $2 million. War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube told journalists in Harare yesterday that…

‘ Grace’s Rallies And Agricultural Donations To Zanu PF Supporters Were Funded By The State’-Chinamasa

Posted on May 5, 2016May 5, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

The First Lady, Grace Mugabe’s meet the people rallies where she donated agricultural equipment to Zanu PF supporters were funded by the state Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa has revealed. Chinamasa was responding to a question by Bulawayo South MP Eddie Cross (MDC-T), who wanted to know who financed Grace’s rallies and the expenditure incurred. The equipment Grace donated was from a Brazilian facility which the Ministry of Agriculture entered into to boost…

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