Charles Rukuni

The Insider , recently sent me an undated story by Fanuel Viriri entitled: Strive Masiyiwa was broke; Nyambirai offered free legal aid in Econet case.

One of Zimbabwe's greatest mistakes, which is beginning to backfire, was the creation of the executive presidency in 1987 because it centralised all decision-making in one person, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions secretary-general Morgan Tsvangirai says.

The editor and publisher of The Insider , Charles Rukuni, has started a whatsapp channel through which he will be sharing his writing, mostly longform articles and books he has written so far and intends to write in future.

Why I had a girlfriend two months after my wife's death is coming soon.

I was 68. The loneliness was so intense that I just felt I needed company. Someone to talk to. But I was also very selective.

I had always considered it a curse for a wife to die before her husband. And I was right. I did not even last two months before I had a girlfriend after my wife of thirty-nine years died. I did not understand why, because at one time, I had spent a whole ten months apart from my wife. I did not sleep with any woman during those ten months. I did not even have a single wet dream during that period either. But the two months after my wife's death looked like eternity. My life had just become empty. Void……………

It scored only 25 out of 100, while the 39 least free countries scored 21 points and below, with Sudan anchoring the list at zero.

Every year journalists in Zimbabwe, including locals, have to go through the tedious task of obtaining press cards. Without, one, the authorities say, one cannot practise in Zimbabwe.

An Avoca (Filabusi) businessman who was arrested at a cattle sale and later detained for five days before being released without being charged was awarded $3 000 when he sued the police officer and the Minister of Home Affairs for unlawful and unjustified detention.

Rising costs which resulted in higher than expected overhead expenditure, labour unrest and the need to trim margins in order to compete saw Mashonaland Holdings' profit at a standstill, declining marginally by 3 percent from $46.5 million to $45.2 million in the 12 months ending March.