Posts by Charles Rukuni

The relaxation of price controls has seen some of the basic commodities that disappeared off the shelves when the government introduced strict price controls coming back. Cooking oil is now…

Zimbabwe has increased the selling price of the staple maize from Z$9 600 to Z$211 756 a tonne and that of wheat from Z$30 100 to Z$336 584. It had…

It is now official. While the local and international media are debating Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's retirement and succession, his party, ZANU-PF, is already gearing itself for the 2005 Parliamentary…

Rio Tinto's gold production dropped by almost half from 2 097 kgs in 2001 to 1 182 kgs last year and it looks the trend has not changed. The company…

Dairibord Zimbabwe still managed to increase its sales by 171 percent despite a drop in milk supplies of 13.25 percent and price controls that affected most of its products. The…

A $210 million investment into Interfresh in 2001 is beginning to pay off. The company made a net profit of $1.6 billion last year an increase of 839 percent from…

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai could go down in history as the president who never was. His Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) missed the 2000 parliamentary elections by a whisker. It…

South African police are reported to be closing in on David Jesse who is continuing to cause havoc in that country. Their only problem, reports say, is that they are…

"You have the jewel of Africa in your hands," said President Samora Machel of Mozambique and President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania to Robert Mugabe, at the moment of independence, in…

The wide gap between the price of diesel and that of petrol could be an indication that the government is planning to phase out vehicles that use petrol from the…