Posts by Charles Rukuni

Despite problems facing the passenger transport industry, the much talked about Harare-Chitungwiza railway line seems to be still on. The detailed engineering, design and costing of the line is expected…

Subsidies on basic foodstuffs are likely to be lifted in the coming year when the country comes under pressure to implement the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme which is now way…

The price war among bus operators has resulted in one of the most glaring anomalies in bus fares. It is now cheaper to break your journey if you use the…

The decision by the Coffee Growers Association to go it alone instead of having the crop marketed by the Grain marketing Board, as has been the case all along, should…

South Africa is now trying to flex its financial muscle in Zimbabwe as it seeks to increase both its political and economic influence in the region. This will be done…

Plans to privatise the Posts and Telecommunications Corporation still seem to be on the cards but a number of questions remain unanswered. It appears when most people talk about the…

Reports that a Harare businessman, Claud Danha, is being paid as much as $20 000 a month from state coffers to mobilise funds for the drought relief programme must have…

The school term has just ended. Most parents now have to endure two months of agony as they anxiously wait for the results. Education has become very expensive, but parents…

Zimbabwe Newspapers seems to have already written off its competition, the Daily Gazette. Sources say it is giving the Gazette three months. This would be very unfortunate because although the…

It had to come out one day. President Mugabe, who has almost been untouchable in the past 12 years, maintaining a seemingly clean slate with even some of his lieutenants…