The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.
Zimbabwe was duped when it agreed to allow a UK investor to take over the country’ biggest beef processor, the Cold Storage Company, because the investor “is a high-tech streetwise…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa today met with a special envoy of Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi with whom he held further discussions on ways of increasing the volume of fuel being pumped…
Members of Zimbabwe’s security services and the health sector will get their bonuses on Friday next week. According to a circular issued yesterday, members of the army, the police, airforce…
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pledged government support to artisanal miners so that they make meaningful contribution towards the vision of making the mining sector a US$12 billion industry by…
A handful of civil servants today turned up for the much publicized demonstration to press the government for higher wages that are in line with the poverty datum line. Civil…
Zimbabwe has fired 77 government doctors who have been on strike for 63 days. The doctors went on strike at the beginning of September arguing that their salaries were now…
Jorum Gumbo, the former Transport Minister, has been arrested for his actions around the Zimbabwe Airways controversy. But it tells a story of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s feeble anti-corruption drive that…
Zimbabwe Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya were in the firing line this week as opposition legislators took them to task about their roles and decisions…
Grace Mugabe—once an eccentric and untouchable figure in Zimbabwean politics—is at loggerheads with President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government and the ruling ZANU-PF party over the family’s properties. Government officials recently invited…
The African Union and the Southern Africa Development Community are pushing for the lifting of sanctions on Zimbabwe to save the country’s economy from collapsing. But amid the push, Western…