Posts by Charles Rukuni

We asked this question 12 years ago when then Standard editor, Mark Chavunduka, his reporter, Ray Choto, and the paper's managing director, Clive Wilson, were arrested and detained over a…

One Bulawayo resident describing murambatsvina, six years ago, put it this way: "Zvakaitwa nehurumende zvakafanana nababa wanoona mwana wavo akapfeka hembe dzakabvaruka, vobva vadzibvarura bvarura, vachiti nyarara mwanangu ndichakutengera sutu,…

The Sovereign Wealth Fund- which is yet to be created- has emerged as the favourite to take over majority stakes in foreign-owned mining companies should the government go ahead with its planned indigenisation programme.

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The arrogance that Zimbabwe's politicians continue to display is amazing. Eleven years ago Obert Mpofu, who had lost in the elections but was appointed governor of Matabeleland North vowed he…

Despite reports about his ailing health- which he has dismissed- President Robert might not be in a position to retire even if he wanted to because there is too much at stake, according to a blogger for a United States magazine, Foreign Policy.

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has baffled his critics for more than a decade. In 2000, most people thought that his days were numbered after people rejected a new constitution that…