{"id":19271,"date":"2020-02-11T19:51:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T17:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=19271"},"modified":"2020-02-11T19:51:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T17:51:58","slug":"biti-names-cartels-that-have-taken-over-finance-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/biti-names-cartels-that-have-taken-over-finance-ministry","title":{"rendered":"Biti Names Cartels That Have \u2018Taken Over\u2019 Finance Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudakwashe Tagwirei has become Zimbabwe\u2019s de facto Minister of Finance, according to MDC vice president Tendai Biti.<\/p>\n<p>Biti also named a number of businessmen he believes are at the centre of the cartels running Zimbabwe\u2019s economy into the ground. He told NewZimbabwe.com\u2019s current affairs programme, The Agenda, on Monday:<\/p>\n<p>The economy has been taken over by cartels in the form of Kuda Tagwirei, in the form of Sakunda, in the form of Trafigura in the form of Billy Rautenbach in the form of Van Hoogstraten, in the form of John Bredenkamp and other cartels that are running this economy.<\/p>\n<p>They are controlling Command Agriculture, it\u2019s sad and they are also controlling the Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Finance has been taken over by those cartels, Kuda Tagwirei has taken over the Ministry of Finance in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>While President Emmerson Mnangagwa has often preached against graft, corruption has moved to another level since he came to power on the back of a military coup in November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A few high-ranking officials have been arrested and released and not a single one of them has been convicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudakwashe Tagwirei has become Zimbabwe\u2019s de facto Minister of Finance, according to MDC vice president Tendai Biti. Biti also named a number of businessmen he believes are at the centre of the cartels running Zimbabwe\u2019s economy into the ground. He told NewZimbabwe.com\u2019s current affairs programme, The Agenda, on Monday: The economy has been taken over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[458,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-19271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-biti","10":"tag-mdc"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Biti Names Cartels That Have \u2018Taken Over\u2019 Finance Ministry - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kudakwashe Tagwirei has become Zimbabwe\u2019s de facto Minister of Finance, according to MDC vice president Tendai Biti.Biti also named\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/biti-names-cartels-that-have-taken-over-finance-ministry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Biti Names Cartels That Have \u2018Taken Over\u2019 Finance Ministry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kudakwashe Tagwirei has become Zimbabwe\u2019s de facto Minister of Finance, according to MDC vice president Tendai Biti.Biti also named\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/biti-names-cartels-that-have-taken-over-finance-ministry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-11T17:51:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/09\/Tendai-Biti.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"788\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"552\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/biti-names-cartels-that-have-taken-over-finance-ministry\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/biti-names-cartels-that-have-taken-over-finance-ministry\",\"name\":\"Biti Names Cartels That Have \u2018Taken Over\u2019 Finance Ministry - 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