Diamond Proceeds Used for Abduction Pay-Outs? »

Confidential sources in the Zimbabwean government claim that Support Unit Constable Gambe led the abduction of Jestina Mukoko abducted on 3 December. Constable Gambe is known to have been involved in abductions and other illegal activities tracked and catalogued by Mukoko and the Zimbabwe Peace Project during the January-September 2008 period. Two other ZPP officials [...]

Fuelling inflation by printing a world breaking 500 million dollar note in modern day… »

From The Harare Tribune
Saturday, 13 December 2008 Tandiwe Jenje
Hell on earth, or is it just hell on Zimbabwe, because Zimbabwe seems to be in hell right now.  The world breaking print of a 500 million dollar note should be in the Guinness world records.
With a catastrophic outbreak of cholera and now anthrax, and a president [...]

Drumsticks at $88 000 000 is clearly obscene »

From ZimbabweJournalists.com By Chenjerai Chitsaru
LAST WEEK, I bought two drumsticks at a take-away place in the central business district of Harare for Z$88million.
This is obscene, I said to the assistant who served me. “Oh? What is not obscene in this God-forsaken country today?” she hit back.
It turned out to be one of those rare occasions [...]

Zimbabwe Central Bank Governor’s Reappointment Draws Heavy Fire »

From VOA
By Jonga Kandemiiri, Washington
26 November 2008
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s reappointment of Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono for another five year term drew sharp fire Wednesday from the main formation of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
MDC founder and prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai said the reappointment of the central bank chief in the midst of [...]

Gono appointed to new five-year-term »

From The Zimbabwe Times
November 25, 2008
By Raymond Maingire

Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has reappointed Gideon Gono to the position of governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe  for another five years.
Gono’s current term of office expires this week at the end of November and his new term kicks in the following [...]

Gono blames banks, Stock Brokers, and ZSE for inflation »

From The Zim Eye
By Xolani Sibanda
Harare(ZimEye) ‘The fraudulent collaboration between some banks, Stock Brockers and the Zimbabwe stock exchange is the most inflationary vehicle’
This was said by Reserve Bank Governor Dr Gideon Gono in his monetary statement for the end of the year issued out on the 20th of November. Gono, who had been rumoured [...]