Posts by Charles Rukuni

The arrogance that Zimbabwe's politicians continue to display is amazing. Take the case of Matebeleland North governor Obert Mpofu for example. He was beaten clean in the parliamentary elections for…

President Robert Mugabe and a number of his stalwarts have been arguing since the June general elections that a win is a win no matter how slim. This is probably…

Profile of the one-hour minister. That is how the Sunday Mail teaser on the profile of Kadoma lawyer Paul Mangwana read. Mangwana had risen from nowhere to Minister of Transport…

Although the Movement for Democratic Change, which won 57 of the 120 contested seats in the general elections in June refused to be part of the present government insisting it…

President Robert Mugabe wants to retire from politics but his efforts have been thwarted by both his own ZANU-PF party and the surprise performance of the opposition Movement for Democratic…

The danger of allowing people to stay in power too long is that they start taking people for granted. This was amply demonstrated by vice- President Simon Muzenda at Chivi…

Nothing seems to be going on well for Zimbabwe. The economy is in tatters and its image is in shreds. One recent report, for example, said things were so bad…

The state-controlled media has now abandoned all pretence at providing their readers, viewers and listeners with balanced or fair coverage of election issues, the Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe (MMPZ)…

Huge discrepancies between the results of the national referendum in February and an opinion poll by the Helen Suzman Foundation carried out between January 14 and February 9 have raised…

When Minister of Lands and Agriculture Kumbirai Kangai left the court after charges of corruption involving about $228.4 million were levelled against him, he looked quite relaxed and even told…