Posts by Charles Rukuni

Zimbabwe’s Deputy Finance Minister Clemence Chiduwa says yes. Economist Gift Mugano says yes, too, but the two do not see things the same way. Mugano says the local currency will…

More than three months since the start of the war in Ukraine, people globally are facing a cost-of-living crisis not seen in more than a generation, with escalating price shocks…

Citizens Coalition for Change deputy leader Tendai Biti yesterday said Local Government Minister July Moyo was the most corrupt minister in Zimbabwe. He said this before he was kicked out…

Zimbabwe has recruited 3 900 teachers so far this year but it is short of another 25 300, Education Minister Evelyn Ndlovu told Parliament on Wednesday. More than half of…

The Pomona waste management deal which was signed with a Netherlands company yesterday raised a stink in Parliament with opposition legislators saying the government was interfering with the operations of…

Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti, a strong proponent of dollarization, has called on the government to scrap the Zimbabwe dollar component of the maize producer price and pay farmers in…

Zimbabwe could be a different country in just one week says economist Eddie Cross. “The only solution, and I want to emphasis that, the ONLY solution is to completely dedollarise…

The Zimbabwe dollar today fell by $16.18 to average $325.3314 down from $308.5201 last week but it is still chasing the black market rate which ranges from $420 to $520…

Zimbabwe has asked Russia for more supplies of agricultural commodities and to start fuel supplies, an official says. The Ukraine war has disrupted supplies of wheat from Russia, the world’s…

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe has enough food and has a surplus of 100 000 tonnes. He says the country requires 2.2 million tonnes but harvested 1.8 million. It,…