President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed Mthuli Ncube as finance minister in September 2018. He hadn’t even known him when President Robert Mugabe was ousted almost a year earlier, but decided that the internationally recognised technocrat was what was needed at the helm of the country’s economy. A panel of financial experts led by then Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe chief John Mangudya had proposed Ncube, an Ndebele from Bulawayo, the country’s second largest city, who had been living abroad […]