Posts by Charles Rukuni

The government made several payments to service providers of Air Zimbabwe but this failed to rescue the airline which was forced to stop operations in January 2012.

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Air Zimbabwe, which resumed flights last week after a 10-month break, will collapse again unless the government stops meddling and allows the national carrier to operate as a business entity.

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Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Tendai Biti filed a US$500 000 defamation suit against The Herald for claiming that he was plotting to oust Morgan Tsvangirai as party president.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee told Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai that he was concerned about the continued detention of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) employee Frank Muchirahondo and if he was not released this would be the first issue that he would officially raise with Tsvangirai after he was sworn in.

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Central bank governor Gideon Gono ambushed everyone when he slashed three zeros from the country’s currency on 31 July 2006 and said everyone should change the old bearer’s cheques within 21 days or they would become garden manure.

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President Robert Mugabe was prepared to repeal repressive laws like the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Public Order and Security Act to get a loan of about $500 million from South Africa in 2005.

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Four months after signing the Global Political Agreement, it was apparent that the formation of an inclusive government was the only game in town for the three major political parties in Zimbabwe otherwise the country would plunge into another Somalia.

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Botswana President Ian Khama told United States ambassador to Botswana Stephen Nolan that he was frustrated with Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s initial reaction to the Southern African Development Community summit communiqué which mapped the timetable for the formation of the inclusive government as well as the MDC’s tendency to reverse itself during negotiations.

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Central Bank governor Gideon Gono was aware that International Crisis Group analyst Sydney Masamvu, who had worked as a journalist for the Financial Gazette and the Daily News, talked to United States embassy officials in Pretoria and may have misled him to fend off the International Monetary Fund from expelling Zimbabwe out of the organisation.

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Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa caused a stampede from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange when he announced a 10 percent withholding tax two weeks before it became effective.

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