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I had always considered it a curse for a wife to die before her husband. And I was right. I did not even last two months before I had a…

This is a true story about the challenges and loneliness I faced when my wife of 39-years died in July 2020, just a few months after the Covid-19 outbreak. I…

My first long-form article in booklet form: Why I had a girlfriend two months after my wife’s death is coming soon. For details and the latest updates, join my channel…

The editor and publisher of The Insider, Charles Rukuni, has started a whatsapp channel through which he will be sharing his writing, mostly longform articles and books he has written…

Britain says amendment of the Zimbabwe constitution is a sovereign, legislative matter for Zimbabwe to determine. This was said by Minister of State ( Development) Baroness Chapman of Darlington in…

It is now 47 years since I wrote the short story below for a South African African publication, the Staffrider. Zimbabwe was called Zimbabwe-Rhodesia at the time. South Africa was…

Zimbabwe has released its 2026 monetary policy statement in which it seeks to stabilise its local currency and has scrapped the 2030 deadline to return to a mono-currency. It has…

Far from it, on paper that is. Ignatius Chombo was one of the longest serving Ministers of Local Government holding that post from 2000 to 2015. But according to one…