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...Bongani Mabhanga shunned the ruling party of President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he cast his ballot for the main opposition in this year’s Zimbabwe national elections....
...Rights groups have condemned his ‘Patriotic Bill’ which they say is the latest attempt to stifle political opposition....
...evidence-based finding of fact by the Supreme Court and shield itself from accountability under both domestic and international law through this legislation,” said Law Society of England and Wales president Nick Emmerson...
...After Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared the winner of Zimbabwe’s last general election, a year after leading the 2017 coup that removed dictator Robert Mugabe, he pledged to bring the country in from the cold...
...Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa is preparing to restart talks on $14bn of unpaid debt as deep divisions persist over disputed elections....
...revenues, a little under a third from reduced borrowing by local authorities and nationalised industries, and the rest from lower-than-anticipated government subsidies for household and company energy bills...
...“He may have to reopen spending settlements,” Emmerson said. One flashpoint will be public sector pay....
...After Zimbabwe’s military leaders ousted Robert Mugabe in 2017, the west was slow to seek a rapprochement with Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man who replaced him....
...Some even fear that the POSA replacement bill is just as bad as the original legislation....
...The government wage bill is unsustainable. A large and inefficient public sector cannot be allowed to hold back private enterprise. We have set about cutting unnecessary expenditure, therefore....
...In a landmark deal with the IMF last month, the government agreed to stop borrowing money from the central bank to pay its bills, which was a root cause of the bad money....
...Mr Ncube, a technocrat appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, announced the measure as part of efforts to “decisively [deal] with fiscal indiscipline” in a budget critical to fulfilling the president...
...Under the terms of an IMF staff-monitored programme announced on Friday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government will cease borrowing from the central bank to pay its bills, a practice that has exacerbated...
...Read about the president who left his country in crisis, and our interview with Emmerson Mnangagwa who spent decades at Mugabe's side....
...The deficit is the root cause of the cash shortage, as the government has effectively printed electronic dollars without physical backing to pay its bills....
...State finances deteriorated again when Zanu-PF returned to power on its own and began printing electronic dollars without physical backing to pay state bills....
...Bill Browder was in a hotel room in Madrid preparing for a meeting with Spain’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor when three large men arrived at his door....
...Emmerson Mnangagwa hoped that the days after winning Zimbabwe’s first election without Robert Mugabe would be full of promises of investment and IMF loans to fix a broken economy....
...We have passed the bill called the National Healing and Reconciliation Bill, that’s passed, I signed it into law....
...“He says: ‘Emmerson.’ ” Mnangagwa pauses for comic effect. “He never says Mr President. He just calls me Emmerson.” Mnangagwa sits back and laughs....
...He offers to exchange my hundred dollar bill for so-called “bond notes” issued by the government two years ago in an attempt to relieve an acute shortage of foreign exchange....
...At 75 and Mr Mugabe’s right-hand man for more than half a century, he hardly fits the bill as representing a brave new Zimbabwean world....
...Emmerson Mnangagwa, who succeeded Mr Mugabe and is a veteran of the ruling Zanu-PF party, and Nelson Chamisa, the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change are the frontrunners....
...Lawmakers have until midnight on Friday to pass a short-term spending bill to avoid a shutdown....
...Zimbabwean cabinet named The cabinet of Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s new president, features several senior military figures, including Sibusiso Moyo, the general who appeared on state TV after the military...
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