Posts by Charles Rukuni

This was a headline The Insider carried 10 years ago on a review of Blessing-Miles Tendi’s book:  Making history in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. The book said critical public intellectuals in Zimbabwe…

Zimbabwe has recorded 99 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours but no death. Eighty-seven people recovered bringing the total to 1 524, but there are still 3 120…

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa today met with envoys deployed by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to appreciate the prevailing situation in Zimbabwe in light of recent reports of ‘human rights…

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa today said under-utilised land identified through the audit would be re-allocated to new farmers to stimulate production. In his virtual 40th Heroes Day address, Mnangagwa said…

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa today called criticism of human rights abuses by his government “divisive falsehoods” and said his administration was under renewed attack from domestic and foreign opponents. Mnangagwa,…

Two people from Manicaland died of the coronavirus today raising the total to 104. There were 74 new cases bringing the total to 4 649. Twenty people, 18 of them…

Zimbabwean businessman and sanctions buster John Bredekamp, who died in June this year, has been removed from the United States sanctions list together with his companies. But some people who…

Zimbabwe has not recorded any coronavirus deaths over the past three days. The 18 deaths, including that of a three-week-old baby, reported up to Friday were discovered posthumously and occurred…

Zimbabwe’s diamond output is set to increase following resumption of operations by Anjin, a joint venture company between Chinese firm Afec and the Zimbabwe government. Anjin ceased operations in 2016…

The Judicial Services Commission (JSC) has shortlisted 12 individuals for public interviews from whom it will choose 5 to sit on the Constitutional Court bench. The Constitutional Court, which is…