Posts by Charles Rukuni

Central bank governor Gideon Gono says Zimbabweans are their own worst enemies. Three-quarters of their current problems are of their own making. Presenting his monetary policy interim review statement in…

The security guard at FXA Bureau de Change in Musina on the South African –Zimbabwe border speaks fluent Shona. She doesn’t even have an accent. She has good reason to.…

The business sector should not read too much into last weekend’s ZANU-PF resolution to harmonise “presidential and parliamentary” elections, a move viewed by many as a ploy to extend President…

Forget about rampant inflation, high unemployment, or the fact that more than one million people need food aid. Forget that you are lucky to live beyond 34. Zimbabweans just love…

With presidential elections less than 15 months away, the ZANU-PF annual conference scheduled for next month at Goromonzi High School in Mashonaland East should focus on who will succeed Mugabe.…

President Robert Mugabe has fired warning shots at one of his most trusted lieutenants- John Nkomo. Though political observers say Mugabe's sentiments at the 66th ordinary session of his party's…

The building boom that Bulawayo experienced in the first four months of the year seems to be slowing down as inflation continues to take its toll. The value of building…

A former deputy mayor of Bulawayo Clr Angilacala Ndlovu has blasted the government for ignoring the city's water problem and said its priorities were warped. Speaking during a heated debate…

Business is to ask the government to remove subsidies and lift price controls that are distorting the market because they are not benefiting the intended people but a privileged few,…

African economies - like old soldiers - do not die, do not collapse, but just fade away, according to Tony Hawkins, of the University of Zimbabwe. "Eight years into economic…