Posts by Charles Rukuni

A new kindle book offers a new explanation of the 2003 blackout that affected nearly 50 million people in the Eastern United States and Canada.

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Tuition fees at state universities were increased by 500 percent with those at the University of Zimbabwe increasing from Z$6 million to Z$30 million a year while meals went up from Z$1.5 million a semester to Z$21 million.

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The Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa has released a catalogue of corruption cases in Zimbabwe dating back to the 1980s, which is essentially to remind people that they do not forget bad leadership examples for accountability, transparency and integrity in Zimbabwe.

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The Supreme Court threw out Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s application to have it take over his 2002 presidential election challenge from the High Court, where it had languished for years.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell suggested that US organisations should seek ways of camouflaging their support for democracy and governance programme in Zimbabwe because the Zimbabwean government seemed to be tracking these activities.

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Former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell said a day before he left the country that he believed Operation Slash Prices was going to be the final blow for President Robert Mugabe.

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Father Fidelis Mukonori, a confidant of President Robert Mugabe, told United States embassy officials that the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leadership around Mugabe lacked the political clout, intelligence, experience or vision to lift Zimbabwe out of the hole they had dug.

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The co-ministers of Home Affairs Kembo Mohadi and Giles Mutsekwa were horrified after being shown pictures of police activities at Anglican churches where supporters of Bishop Sebastian Bakare and Nolbert Kunonga were battling for assets of the church.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai won the first round when High Court Justice Yunus Omerjee dismissed the court case seeking to bar him from conducting party business following a follow-out with the pro-senate faction of his party.

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It might not have been his mission, but former United States ambassador to Zimbabwe left the country convinced that the end of President Robert Mugabe’s rule was near.

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