Posts by Charles Rukuni

The rural electrification programme in Zimbabwe and other electrification projects in the region helped boost sales for BICCCAFCA which increased by 180 percent from $2.4 billion to $6.7 billion last…

ReNaissance Merchant Bank posted a net profit of $1.2 billion in its first year of operation and was highly rated by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe when it examined the…

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS Net) has recommended that the government remove price controls on food staples and other items to enlist the support of the market to…

A United States State Department report released this month says a campaign of personal plunder, masquerading as "land reform" was a tool for the government to steal, murder, abuse and…

Figures don't lie, goes the adage, but liars can figure. Which is precisely why we need to be a lot more skeptical of the numbers we publish... especially numbers that…

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), which gave birth to the Movement for Democratic Change, Robert Mugabe's biggest headache since its formation four years ago, is about to bail…

Going shopping! Don't be put off by the prices. Just cancel the last two zeros and you have the real price you are paying. For example, if you find sadza…

Bill Clinton's famous statement about, and focus on, the American economy in the 1992 Presidential campaign more than any other factor probably secured his Presidential election victory. And more than…

The government has finally increased the price of fuel but though petrol almost doubled in price while diesel went up by 80 percent, it is still much cheaper than in…

Inflation, considered by the World Bank to be the greatest tax on the poor, could President Robert Mugabe's nemesis. Despite the wholesale price controls his government introduced in November, inflation…