Posts by Charles Rukuni

Zimbabwe Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has trimmed his economic growth forecast for 2022 to 4.6% from his previous 5.5%, citing “the impact of the external global environment as well as…

Public Service Minister Paul Mavima told Parliament yesterday that the government has no capacity to pay government workers in United States dollars but is meeting them on Monday to discuss…

Hurungwe East legislator Ngoni Masenda said maize farmers are being grossly short-changed as they are realising only US$165 per tonne, which is enough to buy only two bags of Compound…

A Bulawayo legislator Charles Moyo has asked Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to explain what the US$961 million that Zimbabwe got from the International Monetary Fund was used for as the…

Exiled former Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo who has been lambasting the Citizens Coalition for Change for having no structures and bowing to the West has taken another dig at…

The massive surge in diaspora remittances to Zimbabwe - up to US$1.4 billion last year - makes for an interesting case study of an economy significantly different from others. Not…

The Zimbabwe dollar today eased to $416.2890 to the United States dollar, the first day after the government introduced gold coins to shore up the local currency. Although the central…

The Zimbabwe gold coin, introduced as an alternative store of value to the United States dollar, kicked off at US$1 823.80 or $805 745.38. The coin was also introduced to…

Britain’s Minister for Africa Vicky Ford says her government is monitoring the ongoing detention of Zimbabwe opposition legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole. She said this in response to a…

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa today said Zimbabwe had done fairly well over the past four years confounding its detractors who had written colourful obituaries about the nation. Writing in his…