Posts by Charles Rukuni

University of Zimbabwe Professor John Makumbe is advising the World Bank on efforts to audit the civil service, according to a cable released by Wikileaks.

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“This is a bad deal: a very bad deal. I wonder where these guys were when they signed this deal. Perhaps they were in a stinking toilet. But even a stinking toilet stops smelling if you stay in it for a long time.”-Political analyst John Makumbe on the power-sharing agreement.

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A Bulawayo journalist, Gibbs Dube, was one of the five “activists” sponsored by the United States embassy in Harare and Freedom House to travel the region to shed light on President Robert Mugabe’s mess after the 2008 elections.

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The United States was likely to provide more financial aid to pro-democracy advocates who were being victimised by the State for their political activities once the Democracy Development Act had been passed.

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Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, a group of more than 300 organisations, was partly being funded by the United States Agency for International Development.

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The United States government through its US Agency for International Development was spending US$100 000 a year on a Transparency International Zimbabwe programme that worked with the Parliament of Zimbabwe’s Public Accounts Committee in advocating anti-corruption in the public sector and in closing loopholes in legislation that makes corrupt cases easier.

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We have now published 65 Wikileaks cables on Didymus Mutasa, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front secretary for administration. Our initial search indicated that there are 90 which means we have 25 more to go.

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State Security and Lands Minister was in 2007 in the final push to evict the remaining 350 white farmers. There had been about 4 500 white farmers when the concerted land reform programme began in 2000.

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Politics is a dirty game. No one knows this better than Archbishop Pius Ncube of the Bulawayo Catholic diocese. Ncube had steadily grown to become a powerful political force in…

Evangelical Bishop Trevor Manhanga told United States embassy officials that although Archbishop Pius Ncube was set up, the charges of adultery that were being levelled against him were undoubtedly true and would do considerable harm to the opposition.

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