Posts by Charles Rukuni

Zimbabwe police arrested 10 union officials today as they tried to petition the Finance Minister over low pay for teachers, witnesses said, extending a government clampdown on dissent that has…

Zimbabwe’s month-on-month inflation which stood 39.3 percent in June declined to 21 percent in July raising questions about whether the price spiral which began in February when the country allowed…

In August 2008, I visited a hospital roughly 100 miles outside the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Hundreds of patients lay in overcrowded wards and on makeshift beds in hallways and in…

Movement for Democratic Change national organising secretary Amos Chibaya has been arrested for failing to stop demonstrations which were organised by the party but were all subsequently banned by the…

A writer who claims to have strongly believed that the opposition Movement for Democratic Change would be the answer to Zimbabwe’s problems if it came to power says he no…

Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, who was reported to be on the run, appeared in court today facing charges of criminal abuse and was remanded to 4 September on $1…

Zimbabwe’s rulers are finding that two decades of economic mismanagement and brutal repression have led them into a trap from which there’s little chance of escape. If they implement the…

Zimbabwe yesterday told the West to go hang after heads of missions from Western countries criticised the government over the way it handled demonstrations organised by the opposition Movement for…

Zimbabwe police have banned tomorrow’s demonstration in Masvingo by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change saying stakeholders who met the police today  did not support the demonstration, the fourth organised…

Zimbabwe police today blocked a street protest for the third time in five days, as the main opposition party said hopes were vanishing that the government might become more tolerant…