Posts by Charles Rukuni

- only political intervention can save it The proposed vehicle assembly joint venture between Italian company, Fiat, and the Harare-based Zimbabwe Automotive Industries which was launched with pomp and ceremony…

- management stealing left, right and center The once bustling Wankie Colliery Company, which was taken over by the government from the giant Anglo-American Corporation, is now making losses. This…

Wankie Colliery is planning to retrench 269 workers because of cashflow problems. The retrenchment was scheduled for the end of this month but had not yet been sanctioned by the…

There could be a confrontation between the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, which for the first time this year is organising the Workers' Day celebrations, and its affiliate unions as…

The reappointment of the country's eight provincial governors for only a period of three months -which coincides with the end of the current financial year- has increased speculation that this…

The present excessive supply of all meat products will lead to a protracted period of severe shortages later this year, the First Merchant Bank has warned. Some even believe the…

For the past 11 years Zimbabweans have thronged to the National Sports Stadium -or before its construction to Rufaro Stadium- on April 18 to celebrate the country's independence anniversary. Even…

The government's reluctance to accept that the country was facing a severe maize shortfall until it was too late has also cast doubt on whether it has put into place…

Former Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister, Garfield Todd, who has long been associated with the struggle for black rule and participated in the first independence Parliament, has expressed hope that the…

Zimbabwe's economic structural adjustment programme which was already six months behind schedule has been torpedoed by the current drought whose severity is becoming more obvious by the day. Cereal production…