Tendai Biti
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The Right Honourable Tendai Laxton Biti |
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Biti at Chatham House in 2013
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| Minister of Finance of Zimbabwe | |
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In office 13 February 2009 – 10 September 2013 |
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| President | Robert Mugabe |
| Prime Minister | Morgan Tsvangirai |
| Preceded by | Patrick Chinamasa (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Chinamasa |
| President of the People's Democratic Party | |
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Assumed office 10 September 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Secretary-General of the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai | |
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In office 31 March 2005 – 29 April 2014 |
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| President | Morgan Tsvangirai |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Douglas Mwonzora |
| Member of Parliament for Harare East |
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In office 2000 – 29 April 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Tirivanhu Mudariki |
| Succeeded by | Terence Mukupe |
| Secretary-General of the Movement for Democratic Change | |
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In office 13 January 2000 – 31 March 2005 |
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| President | Morgan Tsvangirai |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
6 August 1966 Dzivarasekwa, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) |
| Political party |
Movement for Democratic Change (1999–2005) Movement for Democratic Change - Tsvangirai (2005–2015) People's Democratic Party (2015-present) |
| Spouse(s) | Charity Maguwah-Biti |
| Children | Tawanda Henry Biti |
| Alma mater | University of Zimbabwe |
Tendai Laxton Biti (born 6 August 1966) is a Zimbabwean politician who served as Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2013. He was the Secretary-General of the Movement for Democratic Change and the subsequent Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC-T) political parties and a Member of Parliament for Harare East until he was expelled from the party and recalled from parliament in mid-2014.
Biti was born in Dzivarasekwa, Harare and he is the eldest in a family of 6 children. From 1980 to 1985 he attended Goromonzi High School, where he was appointed deputy head boy in 1985. He enrolled in the University of Zimbabwe+ law school as a freshman in 1986. In 1988 and 1989, Biti was Secretary General of the University of Zimbabwe Student Representative Council, with Terry Mhungu as SRC President, which led student protests against government censorship in academia. After school, he joined the Law firm Honey and Blackenberg, where he became the youngest partner by the age of 26. Biti lost his father in his early 30s.
In 1999 he helped found the MDC. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Harare East constituency in 2000. During the Fifth Parliament he served as a member of the Parliament Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water Development, Rural Resources and Resettlement and that on Defence and Home Affairs. In March 2005 he retained the constituency. He serves in the Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development and is currently the MDC's Secretary General. In his legal career Biti has handled labour and human rights litigation representing large trade unions such as the Post and Telecommunications Trade Union.
He was arrested in 2007 with many others, including MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, after a prayer rally in the Harare township of Highfield.
On 16 June 2007, Biti and Welshman Ncube met with Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Labor Minister Nicholas Goche, in Pretoria, South Africa. South African President Thabo Mbeki, appointed by the Southern African Development Community, presided over the negotiations which sought to end sanctions on Zimbabwe top ZANU-PF leaders or top government officials.
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