Posts by Charles Rukuni

Twenty-five filing cabinets and 20 steel trunks containing Zipra documents went missing when leaders of the former ZAPU military wing were arrested soon after the discovery of huge arms caches…

December has always been considered a month of rejoicing . It has the almost universal Christmas which, though christian, has become so commercialised that even non-christians celebrate it somehow, especially…

Zimbabwe's taxpayers are disgruntled with the 10 percent drought relief levy that was introduced last month. This is, however, not because they do not want to help their less privileged…

Property developers are now concerned that the shortage of telephone lines will adversely affect the lettability of new premises because chances of getting a telephone installed within a year, in…

ESAP with its various interpretations ranging from Eternal Suffering for the African People to Enormous State Approved Poverty is now here to stay. Its effects are beginning to bite almost…

The export-led strategy African governments (including Zimbabwe) have been obliged to adopt by The World Bank, quite simply has not worked, does not work, and cannot work, says Susan George,…

Zimbabwe is slowly plunging into deeper debt as it implements the World Bank and IMF sponsored Economic Structural Adjustment Programme, which it claims is homemade. Minister of state for Finance,…

Corruption within the Central Mechanical Equipment department (CMED) is so rife that its entire security system should be dismantled and reorganised under the auspices of a very senior police officer,…

Zimbabwe's commercial interests are increasingly taking the upper hand over ideological ones. The country which once refused to recognise South Korea or Taiwan recently entertained a South Korean delegation which…

Poor planning by the government coupled with the current drought could once again plunge the country into another food crisis, this time the shortage of beef. Although the government had…