The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.
I started The Insider in December 1990 single handed. I had left The Chronicle in April of that year and had started writing for overseas publications most of which were…
A French consortium was today reported to have expressed interest in investing about US$3 billion to generate power in Zimbabwe. Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma said the consortium…
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today said President Robert Mugabe will keep his end of the bargain and hold elections after the end of the current transitional government. He was quashing…
South Africa today said it would start documenting Zimbabweans on September 20. Pretoria has ended its special dispensation with Zimbabwe but it says Zimbabweans in South Africa will not be…
President Robert Mugabe today dismissed rumours that he was dying from cancer saying this had become a perennial issue and he hardly paid any serious attention to it. "I don't…
Finance Minister Tendai Biti today said Zimbabwe was seeking R3.25 billion in an overdraft and credit facility from South Africa. "There are two facilities that we are negotiating; one is…
The Movement for Democratic Change today appealed to the South African government to delay a plan to send undocumented Zimbabweans back to the country at the end of this year…
High Court judge Charles Hungwe today revoked his earlier judgment and nullified African Consolidated Resources' mining claims in Marange saying the company acquired the rights fraudulently. He said ACR had…
Zimbabwe and South Africa are to meet to discuss the future of Zimbabweans in South Africa, South Africa's Home Affairs spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa said today. "The meeting will be held…