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Tendai Biti
Tendai Biti is one of Zimbabwe’s foremost constitutional lawyers, human rights defenders, and political figures. A founding member of the country’s main opposition movement, he served as a Member of Parliament for over two decades and was a key co-drafter of Zimbabwe’s landmark 2013 Constitution.
As Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance during the Government of National Unity (2009–13), Mr. Biti is widely credited with rescuing the economy from historic hyperinflation through rigorous fiscal reforms and stabilizing the macroeconomic framework. He subsequently chaired the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee, driving critical institutional oversight and state anti-corruption initiatives.
Currently, Mr. Biti is the Convener of the Constitution Defenders Forum (CDF), a civic platform spearheading the peaceful resistance against executive attempts by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to amend the constitution and weaken institutional checks and balances.
A respected voice on African governance, he is the co-author of Democracy Works: Turning Politics to Africa’s Advantage (2019), alongside former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr. Greg Mills, and Jeffrey Herbst.
