Tapiwa Mashakada

Government must decommission bond notes because they are fuelling a thriving black market, a senior MDC official has said.
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By Blessings Mashaya Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has said it backs the adoption of the South African rand as the primary currency. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, MDC shadow finance minister Tapiwa Mashakada said since 50…
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By Tapiwa Mashakada For any economy to grow and develop, it has to invariably balance the uneasy macro-economic triangle. This triangle is made up of the macro-economic trinity of fiscal balance, monetary stability and external balance…
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By Christopher Mahove The Zimbabwe opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), led by former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai, on Sunday warned of a humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe, saying an economic upturn for the country was…
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By Mugove Tafirenyika Opposition MPs will next week grudgingly pass the 2017 national budget in Parliament against a slew of objections, including a poor health sector allocation, among other concerns. Apart from the measly $281…
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Zimbabwe’s economy remains stuck in a deflationary dungeon and the absence of economic stimulus measures such as increasing domestic consumption and gross fixed capital formation is inimical to growth, says the main opposition Movement for…
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By Dr. Tapiwa Mashakada The Reserve Bank appears very innocent about the neutrality of bond notes. Their explanation is this: Bond Notes are only an export incentive available to exporters who have actually exported and earned forex for…
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By Dr Tapiwa Mashakada, MDC Shadow Minister of Finance The banking sector plays an intermediary role in the economy through a process called financial mediation. In lay man terms this simply means mobilizing surplus deposits and lending…
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MDC-T bigwigs Nelson Chamisa and Tapiwa Mashakada have been reduced to ordinary card carrying members after they lost dismally in the opposition party’s elective congress which spilled overnight from Saturday, only to end yesterday morning.
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THE intriguing race to fill the vacant Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) secretary-general post took a radical turn this week with one of the top contenders, Douglas Mwonzora, making a sensational U-turn saying he was pulling out of…
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