Posts by Charles Rukuni

The United States Agency for International Development has finally responded to questions about its US$19.8 million Fostering Agribusiness for Resilient Market (FARM) programme in Zimbabwe, almost two months after the…

Three people died of coronavirus in Harare yesterday -two at Sally Mugabe Hospital and one at Parirenyatwa - while 100 others recovered and 41 tested positive. This brought the total…

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe today designated Zimswitch as the national payment switch with immediate effect. Zimswitch was founded in 1994 through a collaboration of several commercial banks in Zimbabwe…

The number of coronavirus cases in Zimbabwe today rocketed to 885 after a record 98 people tested positive. Fifty-one were returning residents with 28 from Botswana, 22 from South Africa…

Zimbabwe Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube will present his mid-term review on Thursday next week. Ncube had been asked to make a ministerial statement on the state of the economy in…

Chivi South Member of Parliament Killer Zivhu has been recalled following his expulsion from the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda announced yesterday that Zivhu…

Zimbabwe yesterday recorded 53 new coronavirus cases, 34 of them local transmissions, raising the number of cases to 787. The spike in coronavirus cases in Zimbabwe has largely been from…

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa today fired Health Minister Obadiah Moyo who was arrested last month on corruption charges over a US$60 million deal to procure coronavirus test kits. Moyo was…

The Zimbabwe dollar today fell by just over $2 against the United States dollar at today’s auction. The average rate was $65.88 down from $63.74 last week and $57.36 at…

The market is closely watching today’s foreign currency auction, Zimbabwe’s third,  to see if President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration has finally got things right on the exchange rate which has been…