Posts by Charles Rukuni

A total of 1 632 companies received foreign currency from the auction system from its launch on 23 June 2020 to the end of July 2021.  They were allotted a…

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya says the foreign currency auction system has been functioning so well that 70% of the money is going to the productive sectors of…

Zimbabwe today recorded 956 new coronavirus cases but 1 637 people recovered resulting in active cases dropping to 25 114. The vaccination programme also kept its momentum with more than…

Zimbabwe will complete upgrading the 580km Beitbridge-Harare Road by the end of next year, Deputy Finance Minister Clemence Chiduwa told Parliament this week. He said the government had already spent…

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba must be laughing his heart out. He tweeted that Mnangagwa’s biography- A life of Sacrifice: Emmerson Mnangagwa- sold 50 380 copies at US$15…

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is working on closing the gap between the official and the parallel market exchange rates of the Zimbabwe dollar which is said to have widened…

Zimbabwe today vaccinated a record 96 830 with 39 943 getting the first jab and 56 887 the second. This pushed the number of those fully vaccinated to 920 554…

Former Movement for Democratic Change legislator Eddie Cross is reported to have told United States officials that they should remove sanctions on Zimbabwe because its leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa won…

Movement for Democratic Change Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti has since Mthuli Ncube was appointed Finance Minister in 2018 rubbished every move that he has taken, even going to the extent…

South Africa is Zimbabwe’s largest trading partner but a look at the number of South African companies that operated in Rhodesia and immediately after independence shows that it played second…