Posts by Charles Rukuni

Zimbabweans are now used to failed promises. But they are still waiting for the 2006 national budget due to be unveiled next week with keen interest. No one will be…

Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change is heading for a split unless the warring factions back down from their positions and reach a compromise. But even this…

Campaigning for the senate elections due next week has been quiet. Unusually quiet. So quiet that reports say law enforcement agents are worried that something might explode at the last…

The Bulawayo City Council is in a dilemma about what to do, after nine residents notified it that their properties, which had approved plans, were destroyed during Operation Murambatsvina in…

The government has finally taken the first step in trying to rectify Bulawayo's decades-old water problem. It is now planning to link Mtshabezi and Mzingwane Dams and is inviting tenders…

Factions within the Movement for Democratic Change that are squabbling over whether to participate or boycott the forthcoming senate elections, threatening to split the party, should quickly patch up their…

Some junior doctors who were deployed to Mpilo Hospital in August and were supposed to be accommodated at the hospital have complained that they are now stranded after being kicked…

Bulawayo is witnessing a building boom with the city council approving plans worth $11.5 billion in September. Plans approved in the first nine months of this year shot up to…

The Bulawayo City Council has approved a $3.8 trillion "maintenance budget" for 2006 which will see charges increase by an average of 250 percent but still leave a deficit of…

Central bank governor Gideon Gono may have got his exchange rate policy right this time but this could be derailed by commercial banks that have now decided to play god…