Posts by Charles Rukuni

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…

During the school days it was the most detested thing. Today, with clothing almost unaffordable even on credit, everyone is rushing for uniforms. They now seem to be the in-thing…

Zimbabwe's quest for diamonds which catapulted Botswana from one of the poorest countries in world to one of the richest (at least in terms GDP) in Africa may be a…

The common man in Zimbabwe always seems to be getting the wrong end of the stick. Rural black businessmen who bore the brunt of the liberation war, with some being…

The Zimbabwe dollar, which has so far managed to stand its ground against major currencies since the 1991 devaluation despite the tumbling of, first , the US dollar, and then,…