{"id":30844,"date":"2020-12-03T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=30844"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T19:09:00","slug":"mthuli-tendai-biti-is-completely-misinformed-and-out-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mthuli-tendai-biti-is-completely-misinformed-and-out-of-touch","title":{"rendered":"Mthuli: Tendai Biti Is Completely Misinformed And Out Of Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Mthuli Ncube, the Finance and Economic Development Minister, has lambasted former Treasury boss Tendai Biti saying the latter is completely misinformed and is out of touch since he is no longer in the job.<\/p>\n<p>Ncube claimed that Zimbabwe\u2019s banking sector currently holds US$1.5 billion in hard cash whereas, during Biti\u2019s time as Finance Minister during the GNU era, banks held only US$40 million.<\/p>\n<p>Ncube said he has done the exact opposite of what Biti did and there is evidence to show that what is being done now is exactly what the doctor has ordered as there are more locally manufactured goods.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Mthuli Ncube, the Finance and Economic Development Minister, has lambasted former Treasury boss Tendai Biti saying the latter is completely misinformed and is out of touch since he is no longer in the job. Ncube claimed that Zimbabwe\u2019s banking sector currently holds US$1.5 billion in hard cash whereas, during Biti\u2019s time as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":30843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,807,1164,19],"class_list":["post-30844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-mthuli-ncube","tag-tendai-biti","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mthuli: Tendai Biti Is Completely Misinformed And Out Of Touch - zimbabwe<\/title>\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\/mthuli-tendai-biti-is-completely-misinformed-and-out-of-touch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mthuli: Tendai Biti Is Completely Misinformed And Out Of Touch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. 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