Posts by Charles Rukuni

Zimbabwe’s civil servants rejected a 25% wage offer tabled by the government yesterday, insisting on a roadmap leading to pre-October 2018 salary levels and raising fears of a strike that…

Zimbabwe recoded 46 new coronavirus cases today, more than half of them from Bulawayo which now has 40 active cases up from just two at the beginning of this week.…

Zimbabwe has now turned the corner and is now on its way to recovery, Finance Minister Mthulii Ncube said today. In an article in the state-owed Herald, Ncube said even…

Zimbabwe’s coronavirus downward trend, which had seen the number of active cases going down every day though there were still some deaths, was reversed today when three people died; there…

People can accuse Morgan Tsvangirai of all sorts of things but he was never a dictator. If anything, he was too democratic. He consulted a lot. One might even say…

Zimbabwe today recoded only 20 new cases and no deaths while 34 people recovered reducing the number of active cases to 899. Harare now has only 490 cases while Matebeleland…

Zimbabwe’s only ever female Vice-President, Joice Mujuru, 65, has called time on her political career, as women’s groups call for another female in the position. Mujuru’s last dance was the…

Two people, both from Mashonaland West, died of coronavirus today but the number of active cases continued to drop as there were 32 new cases against 47 recoveries. There are…

The Zimbabwe dollar continued with its gradual slide against the United States dollar falling by nine cents to average $83.9827 today against last week’s $83.8891. The Zimbabwe dollar has fallen…

No one has ever doubted that teachers have a genuine grievance. Their salaries, like those of every working Zimbabwean, must be reviewed.  The government has repeatedly acknowledged that it is…