Posts by Charles Rukuni

A Ugandan doctor has accused those raising concerns about the safety of nevirapine, an anti-retroviral drug also being used in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, of being "deceptive"…

"THE most painful consequence of democracy is often losing in public. That is humiliation, a defeat that you need democratic experience to handle, personally as well as politically," a book…

While ZANU-PF is playing down the low voter turnout in its just-ended primary polls that were widely covered by the state media, perhaps even better than some national elections, some…

Bulawayo enjoyed a building boom last year, though this was largely at individual level, with the council approving plans valued at $18.6 billion, a five-fold increase from the previous year.…

  The meteoric rise of Joyce Mujuru to Vice-President has left many people baffled. The question still lingering in most people's minds, more than a month after she was catapulted…

Cracks within the ruling ZANU-PF continue to widen as it emerged yesterday that the provincial executive in Bulawayo was not dissolved but resigned. The party's national political commissar Elliot Manyika…

The Hotel School, which falls under the Ministry of Higher Education, is establishing a 60-room hotel close to its premises, which should open its doors to the public in the…

Businessman Jonathan Gapare, whose company Alpha Construction lost its contract to develop and build houses in Cowdray Park in November, has suffered another terrible blow. The Beitbridge Rural District Council…

ZANU-PF, which is banking on chiefs to deliver the crucial rural vote in the March general election, could be in for a rude awakening as some headmen, who are considered…

A drug that is being vigorously promoted in Zimbabwe as the answer to solving the mother-to-child transmission of HIV may have serious side-effects, especially if used as a single dose.…