Posts by Charles Rukuni

There has been heated debate about the proposed Private Voluntary Organisation Amendment Bill with some churches and civil society saying it will scare away donors and is aimed at shutting…

The Zimbabwe dollar today shed $4.34 to average $150.2157 against last week’s $145.8721. A total of US$32 million was today allotted to 1 379 businesses with US$3.7 million going to…

It was first posted by a Hosia Mviringi and retweeted by Presidential spokesman George Charamba. But was it just a crude joke on Hopewell Chin’ono or there was something more…

Britain says the by-elections held in Zimbabwe on 26 March were largely peaceful but it was concerned about incidents of political violence and restrictions on political gatherings in the lead-up…

Any African who has ever tried to visit South Africa will know that the country is not an easy entry destination. South African embassies across the continent are almost as…

The Midlands is now down to three coronavirus cases with Zimbabwe as a whole at 1 177 active cases. Only 15 new cases and no deaths were recorded yesterday and…

Several Zimbabwe commentators have interpreted recent by-elections as raising the possibility that ZANU-PF’s 42-year-long grip on power is loosening and, come the 2023 general elections, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s Citizens…

After years of public scrutiny for undemocratic decision-making, the Seattle-based Gates Foundation—one of the wealthiest and most powerful private philanthropies in the world—made headlines earlier this year when it expanded…

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which resulted in a surge in global prices of food, gas, oi and related products, was a wake-up call to Zimbabwe that it must…

Zimbabwe is now down to 1 279 coronavirus cases after 562 more people recovered from the pandemic in Mashonaland East which now has only 420 cases but is still the…