Posts by Charles Rukuni

It's an argument that I know I will never win. But my colleague and I have agreed to disagree. He whines about ever escalating prices. I argue that things are…

Zimbabwe's opposition, which came on with a bang in 2000 raising hopes that it could wrestle power from President Robert Mugabe who has literally run the country down, is fast…

The government has been groping in the dark for the past five years as it has been rolling out annual budgets but has not produced any audited reports since 2000.…

The usually sleepy town of Bulawayo is experiencing an unprecedented building boom. The City Council approved building plans valued at a whopping $52 billion in December alone. This was more…

The Financial Gazette was yesterday forced to retract a story in which it had claimed that the Central Intelligence Organisation had blocked the registration of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, publishers…

Gold producers, who have been reeling because of low prices and escalating production costs, could have a major boost this year as the price of the precious metal is expected…

Government departments in Bulawayo usually exhaust their budgets within the first quarter of the year, that is why they are failing to pay their bills to the Bulawayo City Council,…

The Bulawayo City Council approved building plans worth $92 billion between January and November last year with the sprawling suburb of Cowdray Park, which hosts several housing schemes by private…

What is in store for Zimbabwe in 2006? That is anybody's guess. The country's politics is very volatile. Anything can happen. The economy is in shambles. But the so-called economic…

Things are likely to be tough during the first half of this year. Inflation is likely to continue to rise while manufacturing is not likely to pick up significantly because…