Posts by Charles Rukuni

“I don’t know whether you can put education into politics because if that were the yardstick, then we (Zimbabwe) would be the best led country in the world, with the best run economy, the best run government, and the most respectable government because Mugabe has seven degrees, so it is not a basis,”  Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said 12 years ago just before the formation of the Movement for Democratic Change when it became apparent that he would become leader of the country’s biggest opposition party.

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The seeds for the formation of the Movement for Democratic Change were sown at a working people’s convention that was held from 26-28 February 1999. The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade…

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai turns 59 this week. To give our readers a chance to see the man for themselves we are going to publish a series of story on…

Zimbabwe makes interesting reading. The country has been dragged into an attempted US$60 million arms purchase by Swaziland. The only reason is that Swaziland did not allegedly need the array of weapons requested. Another ventured elsewhere is that the country was trying to make up for weapons from China that it had been stopped from getting. But even in the diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks, Zimbabwe was just mentioned in passing.

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The European Union this week extended sanctions on President Robert Mugabe and 162 others recently but removed 35 of his lieutenants from the list.  Although  "the sanctions forbid direct or…

The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme which is supposed to regulate the legal trade of rough diamonds may have inadvertently given Zimbabwe- or as most members claim president Robert Mugabe and his cronies- a free reign to sell Marange diamonds outside its system.

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A website run by United Nations Development Programme staff, who say they are committed to openness within the organisation, says recent reports that vehicles registered in the name of the…