Gideon Gono
Gideon Gono
Gideon Gonowas the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwefrom 2003 to 2013 and is the former CEO of the Jewel Bank, formerly known as the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe...
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We have just one request, ... Our creditors and the international community should not take precipitous action whose effect is to negate the turnaround efforts currently under way.
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We are a guilty party from a technical point of view, ... All we can do is to plead mitigatory circumstances to our arrears situation and pray that the jury will see for itself how genuine our efforts at self correction are.
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We are a guilty party from a technical point of view.
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One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,
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This transaction will send a message to the world that Zimbabwe is a country that serious investors can do business with.
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We have been putting our money where our mouth is in as far as ... the need to remain a part of the global village and the international community as represented by IMF membership.
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As Zimbabweans we cannot go it alone and it is imperative that we seek to work with other international business partners, particularly those that ... wish us well.
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If you invade a coffee, tea, cocoa, wheat or a fruit farm what you are doing is to undermine the productive capacity of this economy, therefore causing inflation,
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I want to deplore our level of yields which is very low, pathetically low,
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With immediate effect, therefore, the retention period has been reduced from the current 45 days to 30 days (one full month).
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What is now required is that we should, as a country, stay on course to ensure that our economic objectives come to fruition. The close range in the voting is indicative of how serious and close the country had gone towards being expelled and how critical it is for Zimbabwe to urgently implement radical policy measures that will stabilise and grow the economy, especially in areas such as agriculture, mining, tourism, manufacturing as well as in the parastatal and local authority fields,
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As the Chamber of Mines we believe that there is adequate policing in the industry and additional policing would yield no marginal value.
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from where we stand, anyone invading farms now is not working for the interest of this country; is a criminal and ought to be locked away until after the harvest,
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Guided by the ongoing consultations the Reserve Bank is carrying out with all stakeholders concerned, as well as strong representations by the banking industry, it has become necessary that we suspend indefinitely the introduction of this proposed measure.