Posts by Charles Rukuni

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…

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has published 23 questions and answers about its newly introduced currency, the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), in an effort to educate the public before releasing notes…

Zimbabwe should be aware of four things so that it can effectively deal with the current drought, Lands and Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuku told Parliament on Wednesday.  Firstly, the small…

Zimbabwe is sitting on a stockpile of ivory worth US$700 million which it cannot sell because of the ban on the sale of ivory by the Convention on International Trade…

Zimbabwe Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube told legislators yesterday that the newly introduced Zimbabwe Gold currency was everybody’s currency, so Zimbabweans should be proud of it. Responding to questions about what…

The introduction of the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) as the country’s new currency is a critical step in the government’s long term de-dollarisation agenda, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said today. In…

Zimbabwe businesses have not transitioned to the nation’s new currency as they continue to adjust their systems, six days after the central bank introduced the sixth medium of exchange in…

Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has formed a whatsapp news channel called Chamisa News Channel (CNC). While several of his X-handle followers welcomed the move as a channel for his supporters…

In the last week, Zimbabwe, following both Malawi and Zimbabwe, has declared a drought emergency, requesting US$2 billion in support for purchasing food supplies in the face of large predicted…

Zimbabwe central bank governor John Mushayavanhu can shout “not under my watch” as much and as loudly as he wants but this will not sustain the newly introduced Zimbabwe Gold…