Posts by Charles Rukuni

An Australian Judge Neil McKerracher ruled on 18 August 2010 that the Australian Tax Office could go ahead with its bankruptcy case against African Consolidated Resources chief executive Andrew Cranswick because it had done everything to serve him with court papers after he had absconded from Australia. The tax office said Cranswick owed it more than A$1 million. The court was told that Cranswick left Australia on 9 June 2009 promising to return on 22 June but has never returned to that country. Here is the judgment in full.

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The United States advised Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai way back in November 2000 not to resort to mass action to remove President Robert Mugabe, but urged him instead to engage in dialogue with moderates in the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front, “even if privately”.

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Seven years ago, Movement for Democratic  Change leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was brought for trial on high treason charges.  He was accused of having plotted to assassinate President Robert Mugabe. The…

Diplomatic life must be very exciting. United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray in his weekly summary of events on Zimbabwe in November last year reported that his arrival had been delayed because of an accident involving an Air Zimbabwe flight to Bulawayo. The aircraft struck a group of five warthogs and veered off the runway, destroying some of the runway lights. But what was more interesting about the cable is that Ray appeared to be worried that the government did not comment on the fate of the warthogs.

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The United States and German ambassadors to Zimbabwe have predicted that ZANU-PF will become irrelevant once Mugabe goes.  But the demise of Mugabe and ZANU-PF has been on the cards…

The succession plot continues to thicken. But while Zimbabweans and the international community are engrossed in succession plots, President Mugabe and his lieutenants could be seeking a constitutional solution to…