Posts by Charles Rukuni

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,…

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,…

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…

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…

The recent promotions of army and air force commanders seems to be aimed more at tribally balancing the army than anything else. The appointment of Perence Shiri as commander of…

ZANU (Ndonga) leader Ndabaningi, who on his return from self-exile in the United States promised to give every Zimbabwean $600 a month and a 15-acre piece of land, is now…