Posts by Charles Rukuni

Century Holdings had an excellent year ending September with net profit increasing more than five-fold from $76 million to $440.2 million but it is only releasing its audited results in…

Clothing retail chain Truworths capitalised on the consumptive spending that has gripped the country to record a net profit of $537.7 million, a 419 percent increase over last year when…

Bulawayo-based Haddon and Sly, which has now been taken over by Barbican Holdings, made a profit of nearly $4 million in the first half of this year and sales for…

About 212 000 tonnes of wheat is expected this season and 68 000 tonnes of this had already been delivered to the Grain Marketing Board by early October. Wheat deliveries…

Flue-cured tobacco seed sales have dropped by 19 percent from 352kg last year to 295 kg. The Zimbabwe Tobacco Association estimates that a total of 41 300 ha, about 50…

While an estimated 6.7 million are facing food shortage and the country's imports will only meet 73 percent of the nation's requirements, whispers say some indigenous millers are selling their…

Zimbabwe has reached that stage when newspaper circulations should start falling. The country had all along had one of the highest newspaper circulations per capita, largely because its people were…

President Robert Mugabe, only beaten by Iraq President Saddam Hussein in terms of grabbing world headlines, is not even the longest serving surviving leader. According to a list compiled by…

The campaign against President Robert Mugabe has reached hysterical proportions. He has been called a tyrant, a murderer, a hate-mongering leader and Zimbabwe’s president-by-fraud, but he has survived it all.…

Embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has found a rare friend. George Monbiot, writing in The Guardian, one of the papers that have been highly critical of his regime and whose…