The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.
In Shona, the language spoken by more than 75 percent of Zimbabwe’s people, there is a saying that if you want to know the mother of a child, beat the…
The Zimbabwe government in 2015 rejected the winner of a tender to install a 200MW diesel power plant because the company is part-owned by Madeline Albright, the former US Secretary…
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa got his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in the resort town of Victoria Falls today together with 5 268 others raising the number of people…
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has today released the full list of all 788 companies that have benefitted from the foreign exchange auction since it was launched on 23 June…
The number of active coronavirus cases in Zimbabwe today dropped to 754 after 132 people recovered and two died. Harare and Bulawayo account for 546 of the cases with Matebeleland…
Zimbabwe’s foreign exchange auction, launched on 23 June last year, today allotted US$35.6 million bringing total disbursements to date to US$1.01 billion. The local currency, however, fell by 14 cents…
The United States has been irked by last week’s recall of Movement for Democratic Change-Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti and has blamed this on the Zimbabwean government when recalls are a…
Two people died of coronavirus today and 46 recovered with active cases dropping to 855. There were 19 new cases raising the total to 36 684. Deaths now stand at…
ZESA rejected a proposal by Kuda Tagwirei’s Sakunda Holdings to buy the failed Dema diesel power plant for US$66 million, Parliament heard today. Sakunda was in 2015 awarded a contract…
Itai Dzamara’s wife Sheffra is right. Dzamara’s case needs to be closed. Six years is a long time to wait, especially when there seems to be no prospect of getting…