Posts by Charles Rukuni

The death of former air force chief and black empowerment minister Josiah Tungamirai in South Africa on August 25 was a big blow to the Karanga who still harbour presidential…

A Zimbabwean pharmaceutical company could be rolling out its first antiretroviral (ARV) drug before the end of the year. Zimbabwe Stock Exchange listed CAPS Holdings said in its interim report…

Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe's largest mobile phone operator, continued to perform beyond expectations with net profit increasing more than four-fold from $76.5 billion in the first half of last year to…

Alpha Construction, whose contract to build 532 houses in Cowdray Park had been terminated by the Bulawayo City Council following its failure to fulfil the deal, has been given a…

The Bulawayo City Council approved building plans valued at over $15 billion in May and June, at the height of the government's "Operation Murambatsvina". According to statistics released by the…

TM, one of Zimbabwe's biggest supermarket chains, has been granted permission to build two upmarket shops in Bulawayo. One supermarket will be in the sprawling high-density suburb of Cowdray Park…

Policy Implementation Minister Webster Shamu has called on Zimbabweans to think beyond party politics to save the country from extinction. Addressing hundreds of delegates attending a breakfast meeting organised by…

This year's collective bargaining exercise is likely to be one of the toughest because workers are likely to use government-imposed wages for domestic workers as a threshold, a labour expert…

The Bulawayo mayoral elections are now on and nominations will close on Thursday next week, July 21. Though the elections had been originally scheduled for August 13, they were postponed…

The Bulawayo City Council, which last week barred three government ministers from attending its private briefing with United Nations special envoy Anna Tibaijuka, has roundly condemned Operation Murambatsvina, saying the…