Posts by Charles Rukuni

A total of US$27 million was allotted to 339 companies in the two auctions that were held in December before the auction closed for almost a month until 10 January…

Although it played a key role in providing foreign currency to the productive sector when it was introduced in June 2020, the foreign currency auction system seems to have lost…

The Zimbabwe dollar today kicked off the year, 2023, at $705.4164 to the United States dollar, a drop of $33.9698 since the last auction on 13 December 2022. This was…

The preliminary delimitation report released by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is deeply flawed because the ZEC erred in its calculation of the minimum and maximum number of voters for Parliamentary…

Zimbabwe has been ranked number 49 among the world’s 50 poorest countries, according to InsiderMonkey. It says that, “You might think that with the resources the world boasts right now,…

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has kept the nation on suspense after announcing that he would be looking at the successes of 2022 to celebrate how far Zimbabwe had come. Mnangagwa,…

A Harare man who grew 700 plants of mbanje (dagga, marijuana or cannabis) at a church stand in Westlea had the audacity to tell the police that he did so…

Zimbabwe has banned the export of all raw base mineral ores with immediate effect. This was done under Statutory Instrument 5 of 2023 which was gazetted yesterday. The Base Minerals…

Bulawayo has retained its 12 Parliamentary seats but seven have been reconfigured, according to the preliminary delimitation report that was tabled in Parliament today. There had been fears that the…

Yes, says local think-tank Veritas Zimbabwe. The report, it says, should have been tabled in Parliament by 3 January. Veritas says the constitution says the report must be tabled within…