Posts by Charles Rukuni

The date for the general elections has been set confirming what we predicted in our last issue that President Robert Mugabe is likely to defy conventional wisdom. Early elections may…

One irate reader, worried about how the ruling ZANU-PF has run down the country, has likened it to a condom. Writing in the Financial Gazette, Stivo Musekiwa, said: "The ruling…

Soon after the appointment of the constitutional commission, President Mugabe was quoted by The Herald as saying, that they had included a few loudspeakers in the commission just to add…

Nathan Shamuyarira, the ZANU-PF secretary for information, was a renowned journalist in the 1960s. He was the editor-in-chief of the Daily News. The paper was the voice of the black…

Some of President Mugabe's old enemies who propped former Rhodesian rebel leader Ian Smith by busting sanctions at the height of the liberation struggle are now reported to be helping…

Zimbabwe, once considered one of the jewels of Africa, has now become everyone's punching bag. President Mugabe was mobbed by gays during his recent visit to London and this has…

*The MDC stands for the supremacy of the people and the nation over partisan or individual interests. *The MDC stands for social democratic, human centred, equitable development policies, pursued in…

Although it is dominated by trade unionists and a host of unknowns, the Movement for Democratic Change, launched on September 11 is made up of a cross section of the…

When one looks at some of the suggestions being made to the Constitutional Commission, one is baffled as to what kind of constitution Zimbabweans really like. Some people have suggested…

For someone who was once tipped to succeed Robert Mugabe and even gave him a scare in the 1990 presidential elections coming up with 30 percent of the vote, Zimbabwe…