Zimbabwe Finance Minister Tendai Biti’s recent budget contains important measures capable of wooing entrepreneurs,small businesses and the Diaspora for sustained economic recovery. With unemployment rate over 90%, Zimbabwe desperately needs triggers for driving the economy forward.
“What this budget simply means is that it’s time to ship my ‘gonyet’, my tractor, my F250 and the [...]
Archive for July, 2009
22 Jul
In Defense of Mr Biti’s Budget
16 Jul
Political Thuggery & Compromises – Zimbabwe’s Tragedies
For the most part, the inclusive government was a pragmatic solution to Zimbabwe’s political quagmire. We all know that the formation of the inclusive government was inexplicably shrouded in secrecy. But there was no reason why the inclusive government’s Global Political Agreement brazenly omitted even an addendum on how to seriously deal with human rights [...]
9 Jul
Political Contradictions- The Last Thing MDC needs
Recent contradictions within MDC-T pitting its Finance Minister Tendai Biti against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai are particularly intriguing. As if exposing the underlying schisms, a subject frequently visited by anarchists, the developments seem to suggest that all is not well between the two men. Inadvertently, many political pundits fell short of calling it a power [...]
3 Jul
Reviving Zimbabwe Dollar Suicidal
Against a backdrop of a visibly wobbling Inclusive Government, there are serious political and economic ramifications associated with the premature de-dollarization of the Zimbabwean economy. An impromptu return to the recently-condemned Zimbabwe dollar can only be politically-motivated especially considering that its ardent protagonist, President Robert Mugabe, is suddenly clamoring for its return only five months [...]
