Posts by Charles Rukuni

The creation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has caused quite a stir in the region not so much because of the role the new organisation is going to…

After bungling in Angola, the United Nations has adopted a more cautions approach towards the Mozambique ceasefire which should ultimately lead to the first multi-party elections since the country won…

Former rebel leader, Ian Smith seems to be slowly weaving his way back into politics, thanks to the current discontent which is increasingly leading most people, especially the older generation,…

Zimbabwe's Finance Minister, Bernard Chidzero, may have lost the post of secretary-general for the United Nations but the international community has not yet completely forgotten about him. This seems to…

The country's major newspaper publisher, Zimbabwe Newspapers, may not only have the recently launched Daily Gazette to worry about. Reports say there could have been some financial fiddling within the…

IT APPEARS all is not well at Zimbabwe’s High Commission in London. Reports say the government may be forced to retire the country’s High Commissioner there, Stephen Chiketa, because of…

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

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

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 trade delegation…

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,…