Posts by Charles Rukuni

The building boom that Bulawayo experienced in the first four months of the year seems to be slowing down as inflation continues to take its toll. The value of building…

A former deputy mayor of Bulawayo Clr Angilacala Ndlovu has blasted the government for ignoring the city's water problem and said its priorities were warped. Speaking during a heated debate…

Business is to ask the government to remove subsidies and lift price controls that are distorting the market because they are not benefiting the intended people but a privileged few,…

African economies - like old soldiers - do not die, do not collapse, but just fade away, according to Tony Hawkins, of the University of Zimbabwe. "Eight years into economic…

The building boom in Bulawayo continued with the city council approving plans valued at $87.2 billion in April. This was more than the total value of plans it approved in…

Lobels Bread in Bulawayo has barred its employees from using cellphones within the factory in what sources say is a desperate attempt to cover up what they say could be…

The arrest of pro-senate opposition leader Arthur Mutambara together with more than 50 of his party supporters, a day before the crucial Budiriro by-election in Harare, in what most people…

The prize-giving ceremony at Dinyane School in Tsholotsho on 18 November 2004 was supposed to be the final stage of Phase One of a "smart coup" that would have seen…

The United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell, who irked the government last year when he blamed it for the current economic problems, yesterday said the country's economic woes were…

Zimplats, the country's largest platinum miner, is to go into full production this month following the commissioning of its fourth mining fleet, according to its quarterly report for the period…