Posts by Charles Rukuni

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…

Divisions that rocked the Movement for Democratic Change over participating or boycotting the senate elections were healthy for the party and could see it emerge even stronger than before as…

The future of Bulawayo tyre manufacturing giant, Dunlop Zimbabwe, is still uncertain as the company was only given US$300 000 to manufacture tyres for one specific client. Contrary to reports…

Divisions within the opposition Movement for Democratic Change that have been simmering for some time came to a head last week when the party failed to reach a consensus on…

The rift within the Movement for Democratic Change continued to widen this week with the three Matabeleland provinces vowing to contest the senate elections scheduled for November 26. Bulawayo province…

The shortage of water in Bulawayo, which has gripped the city for the past four months, has turned political. The mayor, Japhet Ndabeni-Ncube, has accused the Bulawayo United Residents Association…

Executive Mayor Japhet Ndabeni-Ncube has called on private developers to take their contracts seriously, saying the council spent a lot of time vetting them before awarding them contracts only to…

The Bulawayo City Council has blasted two government ministries, its parent ministry and that of Water Resources, for sitting on council proposals while at the same time accusing the local…

If it were a riddle, it would go something like this. "When does a person suddenly become seven people without using any magic wand?" The answer would be: "When one…