Posts by Charles Rukuni

With the key industrial index at a 12-month low of 7699 points on December 10, one of the leading stockbrokers says investors should not be running off to offload their…

Only a few months after assuming office, Information Minister Chen Chimutengwende, fired the Posts and Telecommunications board. No reason was given. Had Chimutengwende still been deputy minister of Information before…

Predictions that food companies tend to thrive when there is news about a drought seem to have been confirmed with the recent interim report from National Foods showing turnover improving…

Susan George, a leading pro-Third World economist argues that, when the two Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Bank and the IMF, call for economic reform, they almost take over everything…

Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa seems to have been given the political clout he requires to steer the country out of its economic woes. He has been elevated to deputy secretary…

Southern Africa Printing and Publishing House publisher Ibbo Mandaza has fulfilled his ambition to own a national weekly newspaper. He launched the Zimbabwe Mirror on December 1 to provide the…

Zimbabweans still smarting from the effects of the 1992 drought which saw families surviving on yellow maize, mainly grown as stockfeed, have every reason to be worried about an impending…

There is nothing about "Never in a thousand years" (Former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's vow that blacks would never be allowed to rule the country now named Zimbabwe in…

President Robert Mugabe seems to have a knack for making blunders whenever the country seems to be steering towards greater democracy and accountability. After his government had just announced measures…