Posts by Charles Rukuni

Calls for autonomy by minority ethnic groups sweeping across Eastern Europe seem to be trickling down to Africa just like demands for democracy, which resulted in the demise of communism,…

President Mugabe has managed to slightly trim his cabinet as well as fulfil regional balance but has created another dubious ministry, the Ministry of National Affairs, Employment Creation and Cooperatives…

Twelve years of Zimbabwe's independence have witnessed the progressive marginalisation and domination of the Ndebele people by the majority dominant Shona groups. From 1980 to 1987 this process of domination…

The current drought could turn out to be a blessing in disguise for the peasant farming sector, which has been milked left, right and centre both by the commercial sector…

The proposed bill to enable the government to fund political parties should be widely debated, particularly in such forums as television programmes like Insight, Tonight or Issues and Views before…

Bulawayo's flat dwellers, mostly middle income earners and the elderly, are paying for the intransigence of the government to meet the city's water needs as they have been slapped with…

The human race uses more water in washing away what it has consumed than on anything else, according to results of studies released to The Insider by a leading estate…

The intransigence of the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company which insists on running empty buses instead of lowering fares is clearly proving what proponents of privatisation have always argued for -…

Zimbabweans will have to be more resourceful to obtain white maize meal as authorities are reported to have restricted the supply of white maize until the present stocks of yellow…

The price of bread, the only foodstuff whose price has been static for the past 10 months, is likely double when it is reviewed next. With the price of wheat…