Posts by Charles Rukuni

The foreign currency black market, which was temporarily dampened by the introduction of the managed auction system last year, has resurfaced with a vengeance, prompting Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)…

Former Zipra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, who was almost kicked out of national politics by ZANU-PF Young Turks in Bulawayo, has bounced back as one of the most powerful persons…

It only commands 21 seats, an insignificant number to influence the 150-member House, but Matabeleland is presently calling the shots in national politics. Though it seems to have been brought…

I ALMOST blew my top when the cashier at The Post in Zambia told me she did not have my change. It was only K200. But that was way back…

The political maturity of Zimbabwe's aspiring legislators will be put to test tomorrow when candidates submit their nominations for the March 31 parliamentary elections. After the squabbles that rocked the…

A DEAL is a deal. That was the bitter lesson a Bulawayo company that tried to capitalise on high interest rates offered by a troubled bank learnt when its funds…

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.…