Posts by Charles Rukuni

Zimbabwe Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is asking the US government to tell banks that they will no longer be fined for dealing with Zimbabwe. The country has lost at least…

Zimbabwe, whose currency declined 80% this year before being abandoned, is now worried about its new unit the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) appreciating too fast.  According to Bloomberg, the ZiG has…

Zimbabwe’s new currency, the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG,) continued to firm against the United States dollar as it has done every trading day since it started trading on 8 April. It…

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has congratulated Zimbabwe on its 44th independence anniversary which is being held in Buhera today. “We remain committed to partnering with the people…

The 813 billionaires in the United States have a total wealth of US$5.7 trillion. If they were considered a country on their own, they would be the third richest nation…

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba says there is nothing to celebrate about the United States’s latest move on Zimbabwe sanctions. The United States treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control…

Over drinks back in 2019, two British tycoons, Algy Cluff and Michael Spencer, agreed to set up a company to buy into African resources. They have explored mines in Ghana,…

Former Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa has been accused of destroying the opposition but he said the opposition was not one person. Chamisa, who resigned from the party…

Zimbabwe central bank governor John Mushayavanhu says people will soon be scrambling for the country’s new currency, ZiG, and as the currency continues to strengthen against the United States dollar…

Exiled former Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has raised an interesting question. Why is Canada keeping its punitive 2008 sanctions on Zimbabwe whent he EuropeanUnion and the United States have…