Posts by Charles Rukuni

Zimbabwe’s central bank says there is enough ZiG, the country’s local currency, to meet current and future demand. In a statement yesterday to allay concerns about the availability of the…

What is politics “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it wrongly, and applying unsuitable remedies”.  From The Insider April1992

A British legislator Chris Philp says the country’s Human Rights Law must be amended to allow Parliament to decide who stays in the United Kingdom because judges are passing judgments…

Darling let’s go A tall, good looking girl who had just left college asked her pupils to look for three sentences as part of their homework. When one of the…

Zimbabwe has the third most expensive diesel in Africa after Malawi and the Central African Republic. Libya has the cheapest diesel in Africa at only 3 US cents a litre…

The Deputy Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Angeline Gata yesterday told Parliament the dilemma her ministry is facing in trying to get pregnant girls back to school. She said…

South Africans are wearily attuned to governments’ Orwellian misuse of language. After all, South Africa is a country where a one-time government passed a law (the Natives Abolition of Passes…

Doctor and plumber A doctor phoned a plumber at 2am and asked if he could come and fix his home toilet which was out of order. “Do you know what…

Ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front chief whip Pupurayi Togarepi today asked Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda whether it was mere routine to announce the list of ministers who have…