Posts by Charles Rukuni

In towns scattered along Zimbabwe’s gold belts, the fear of violence has loomed large recently. Over the past three years – and particularly in the last few months – there…

Britain, which is due to leave the European Union, has maintained its sanctions on the Zimbabwe Defence Industries and suspended those on the former First Lady Grace Mugabe. It said…

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa today said that there are no quick fixes to Zimbabwe’s economic challenges, stressing that solutions lie in the hands of locals if there is unity of…

In 2008, Nelson Mandela said there was a “tragic failure of leadership” in Zimbabwe. His words have never been truer than they are today. There is evidence of failure everywhere…

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya served up his first monetary policy speech of the year on Monday in typical fashion; over-optimistic bluster topped with a pious sermon explaining…

The Zimbabwe cabinet today approved an increase in the cost of an ordinary passport from $53 to $150 and that of an emergency passport from $253 to $600. The move…

Zimbabweans can easily take control of their currency by ditching cash and using electronic money, so argues one observer. According to the observer if it is true that cash barons…