Posts by Charles Rukuni

The year 2021, although marred by the COVID-19 pandemic just like 2020, delivered impressive wealth gains for African billionaires, and also multimillionaires on the continent. These impressive gains can be…

Coronavirus recovery in Zimbabwe has slowed down over the past two days with more new cases and fewer recoveries. Yesterday, there were 636 news cases and 460 recoveries. On Friday,…

Zimbabwe has scrapped the US$20 application fee for passports which was supposed to be deposited with the country’s largest commercial bank, CBZ, before the programme had even kicked off. The…

London-based Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masyiwa has recorded gains of $3.33 billion (US$10.3 million) since the start of the year thanks to a surge in the market value of his stake…

The number of Zimbabweans who have received the third coronavirus booster shot rose to 11 373 yesterday after 1 872 got the third jab but those getting the first and…

The spike in the number of coronavirus cases in Zimbabwe has forced the central bank to postpone the re-opening of the foreign currency auction from 11 January to 18 January.…

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for parliamentary by-elections to fill at least 28 seats left vacant following the recall of Movement for Democratic Change Alliance legislators on 26 March, a…

Though Zimbabwe was not able to attain herd immunity against the coronavirus pandemic by December last year largely because of vaccine hesitancy, the number of people getting the third, booster,…

The main issue that the nation and Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube should confront in 2022 is the foreign exchange market, says economist and former Monetary Policy Committee member Eddie Cross.…

Seventy-four Zimbabweans have died of coronavirus in the past four days though the number of those recovering remains higher than new cases with active cases dropping from 27 684 at…