PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has rejected a circular emanating from President Robert Mugabe’s office directing ministers to report to his two vice-presidents –– Joice Mujuru and John Nkomo –– instead of to him as cracks in the shaky inclusive government continue to widen.
Tendai Biti, who is Finance minister, MDC-T party secretary-general and a lawyer, yesterday dismissed the circular as illegal and a wilful breach of the September 2008 Global Political Agreement (GPA) that gave birth to the unity government last February.The circular written on January 25 by the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda, in the possession of the Zimbabwe Independent, implied that cabinet ministers should stop reporting to Tsvangirai and be answerable to Mujuru and Nkomo instead.
GOVERNMENT is divided over Finance minister Tendai Biti’s proposal to put Zimbabwe in the realm of the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC), as Zimbabwe battles to extricate itself from a huge debt trap.
The new war of attrition is the latest round pitting Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono who is opposing the debt relief plan and the Finance chief whose proposal is under consideration by the unity government.
THE International Monetary Fund will decide later this month whether to restore Zimbabwe’s voting rights, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Wednesday.
LOBBYING and manoeuvring for positions within Zanu PF intensified this week ahead of President Robert Mugabe’s appointment of new politburo members who will direct party programmes for the next five years.
MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC) transport manager, Pasco Gwezere who was arrested last year on allegations of stealing guns from an army barracks, has been removed from further remand by a Harare magistrate.
GOVERNMENT is fighting the “blood diamonds” tag associated with the gems mined from the controversial Chiadzwa fields over the past three years, a government official told a parliamentary portfolio committee this week.
THE Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (Copac)’s sub-committee on information and publicity has lodged a complaint with Media, Information and Publicity minister Webster Shamu regarding alleged biased state-controlled media coverage of the constitution-making process.
THE Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (Copac)’s sub-committee on information and publicity has lodged a complaint with Media, Information and Publicity minister Webster Shamu regarding alleged biased state-controlled media coverage of the constitution-making process.
LOBBYING and manoeuvring for positions within Zanu PF intensified this week ahead of President Robert Mugabe’s appointment of new politburo members who will direct party programmes for the next five years.
UNDER the heading “ZDF to safeguard land reform”, the Herald last week carried a story in which Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, addressing students at the army Staff College, said the ZDF “as a matter of priority” will ensure the land reform programme is not reversed “because it is the country’s heritage and source of pride”.
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has rejected a circular emanating from President Robert Mugabe’s office directing ministers to report to his two vice-presidents –– Joice Mujuru and John Nkomo –– instead of to him as cracks in the shaky inclusive government continue to widen.
GOVERNMENT is divided over Finance minister Tendai Biti’s proposal to put Zimbabwe in the realm of the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC), as Zimbabwe battles to extricate itself from a huge debt trap.