From The Zimbabwe Standard – By Sandra Mandizvidza, 14th November 2009
“He is not going to be put anywhere near finance, actually he must not even be seen in a tuckshop,”
A SOUTHERN African Development Community (Sadc) ministerial team that assessed the implementation of Zimbabwe’s troubled power-sharing arrangement recommended that Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono should be [...]

From The Zimbabwe Standard – 1st November 2009

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe was on Friday forced to accept the January SADC Summit Communiqué that eventually led to the formation of the coalition as a binding document, sources revealed yesterday.
The communiqué, which the veteran leader had all along refused to recognize arguing that it was not part of [...]

From Business Day – by Dumisani Muleya, 19th October 2009
THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) will this week intervene in Zimbabwe’s crisis to avert a collapse of its shaky government of unity.
Diplomatic sources said yesterday that Sadc would task the chairman of its organ on politics, defence and security, Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, to hold [...]

From SW Radio Africa – By Lance Guma, 2nd October 2009
Southern African Development Community (SADC) Executive Secretary Tomaz Salomão has told Newsreel that the group’s troika, which is meant to deal with outstanding issues in Zimbabwe’s unity government, is still consulting on a suitable date to meet. The leaders of Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia form [...]

From The Zimbabwe Guardian – By gidza, 12th September 2009
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, had hoped that this week’s SADC summit in Kinshasa would put Zimbabwe high on the agenda, and that leaders would lean on President Robert Mugabe to move on outstanding issues threatening the unity government.
But the region [...]

From The Zimbabwe Guardian – by Percy Takunda, 2nd September 2009

One of the core functions of a central bank is the protection of the value of its currency which the RBZ failed dismally. Only in Zimbabwe can a central bank governor do so much damage and actually get a contract extension. Following on part one [...]