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Zimbabweans struggle to rebuild shattered lives abroad
For many young Zimbabweans, the idea of migrating to foreign lands has long represented hope - a chance to escape crippling unemployment and poverty in pursuit of prosperity. But for a growing number,...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 16:13hrs | 916 | by Staff reporter
UK closure of care work visa to hit Zimbabweans hard
The United Kingdom's decision to permanently shut down its care worker visa route has sent shockwaves across Zimbabwe, where the scheme had offered thousands a much-needed escape from economic hardshi...Published: 13 May 2025 at 16:33hrs | 9539 | by Staff reporter
Chief Dakamela appointed continental AKDA director
In a major recognition of grassroots leadership and cultural stewardship, Chief Dakamela of Nkayi District in Matabeleland North Province has been appointed as the Continental Executive Director of th...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 08:40hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Jamboo joins Crowdcube in groundbreaking fundraising campaign
Fintech company Jamboo has embarked on an exciting new chapter, launching its fundraising campaign on Crowdcube, the UK's largest crowdfunding platform. Jamboo, co-founded by Zimbabwean entrep...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:23hrs | 377 | by Agencies
Zimbabweans skeptical as Motsoaledi resumes role as health minister
Some Zimbabweans are concerned about Dr Aaron Motsoaledi's return as Minister of Health in South Africa, citing his previous harsh attitude toward migrants, notably Zimbabweans, accusing them of overw...Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 16:42hrs | 45 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA urges caution over Zille's citizenship stance
Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Community in South Africa, Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena, believes people should take South Africa's opposition party leader Helen Zille's comments on giving Zimbabwean migran...Published: 26 Mar 2024 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
American chamber scouts for opportunities in Zimbabwe
THE CEO Africa Roundtable (CEO ART) has roped in an American-based organisation, Atlanta Black Chambers (ABC), in an investment scouting programme in the country.The Zimbabwe embassy in the Un...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
African-American investors eye Zimbabwe opportunities
Zimbabwe is set to benefit from investments valued at more than US$500 million in several sectors of the economy from a group of African-American owned businesses that have set their eye on the local ...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Fast growing Zimbabwe diaspora spurs demand for funeral plans
In December 2023, Mavis Clinic Manyonga travelled to the Republic of Ireland from Zimbabwe, looking forward to spending the Christmas holidays with her daughter, Valerie Munashe Makuwe, a nurse in tow...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 18:51hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Rising sudden death cases among newly arrived diasporans - medical expert speaks
MICHAEL Mawema had barely been in the United Kingdom (UK) for two months when he died suddenly in December last year, explained a GoFundMe appeal launched to raise funds for repatriation of his body t...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:42hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Jacob Zuma dumps ANC...forms new party
In a surprising and significant announcement on Saturday, former South African President Jacob Zuma declared that he will not campaign for the African National Congress (ANC) in the upcoming 2024 elec...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 14:25hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
SA inflated the number of intercepted minors
The Zimbabwean government has begun investigating the "heinous offence" of trafficking children into South Africa - but has disputed that South Africa sent back 443 unaccompanied children under the ag...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 07:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's food-for-votes ploy leaves a bad taste
The African Diaspora Forum (ADF) has condemned the dishing out of food packages by Zimbabwean politicians who are trying to woo voters.Zimbabwe is going ahead with general elections in August ...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 07:01hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Malema organising 500 free buses for Zimbabweans to go home and vote
Go home and vote! That is the clarion call of Zimbabweans in South Africa and the EFF which is organising 500 buses to facilitate voting in the upcoming elections.With just weeks away to go be...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 08:55hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to President Ramaphosa, Mnangagwa and HH
Open Letter from Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda a Constitutional and Human Rights law Practitioner and African Diaspora Global Network CEO The President of Zi...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 09:50hrs | 5 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Zanu-PF defends lavish spending on Mayweather
Zanu-PF has come out guns blazing defending the lavish spending and Hollywood-style treatment given to former world Welterweight boxing champion, Floyd Mayweather Jnr by gold dealer Pedzisai "Scott" S...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 07:00hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Scrapping of Zimbabwean Exemption Permits will cause a humanitarian crisis'
With just a few weeks left until the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (Zep) expire, civil rights organisations have requested the department of home affairs to extend the deadline, warning that this was cr...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 16:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean street vendor shot dead in SA
The body of 37-year-old Lloyd Bhebhe, shot dead while trying to sell fruit in an Alberton North business complex, was repatriated to Zimbabwe at the weekend.Activists from the African Diaspora...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:39hrs | 3 | by Kimberly Mutandiro
Zimbabweans in SA in limbo over ZEPs waiver applications
With less than six months before the Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEPs) expire, holders who applied for waivers are waiting with bated breath for feedback from the South African government.Th...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 18:31hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Biden's US$55 billion fails to entice African countries to ditch Russia
FRESH from the US-Africa Summit in Washington DC, with a US$55 billion financial package over the next three years, African leaders from the region find themselves confronted with a reality check of a...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sue Nyathi nominated for AU20 Artistes and Writers Residency Programme in Ghana
BULAWAYO-born fiction author Sukoluhle "Sue" Nyathi has been nominated for the AU20 "Our Africa, Our Future" Writers Residency Programme to be held in Ghana from tomorrow to November 28.The Wr...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Investors to get Zimbabwean citizenship
Deserving investors will be granted citizenship as part of Government efforts to increase investment, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said.The S...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabweans must stop parroting foreign narratives
ZIMBABWEANS should believe in themselves despite the continued imposition of sanctions on the country and be inspired by the national interest to work harder to develop their own country rather than "...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells profiteers to play fair,
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday reiterated the need to adopt fair business practices and urged economic stakeholders to rally behind the country's transformation agenda and leave a legacy of positive im...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's hectic schedule
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today lead key proceedings in a double hectic schedule in the resort city of Victoria Falls where he is set to officially open the End of Term Judges Symposium this morning an...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Pay Africa reparations for slavery'
Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called for slavery reparations to Africa and the African diaspora.Speaking at the Reparations and Racial Healing Summit on Monday, President A...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
200 000 Zimbabweans face deportation in SA
NEARLY 200 000 Zimbabweans working in South Africa face deportation upon expiry of their Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) on December 31 this year if they do not migrate to other eligible permits. ...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
LISTEN: 200 000 Zimbabweans in South Africa are living on borrowed time
There's nearly 200 000 Zimbabweans in South Africa are living on borrowed time.They are in the country on a special visa, the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP).This visa category was i...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 21:23hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean drivers fear being targeted by a xenophobic groups in SA
"I prayed for them to let me live because some who found themselves in similar circumstances, were reported dead," says Richard Mudhara, a Zimbabwean truck driver working in Johannesburg.He wa...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
The political agency of xenophobia, violence in SA
SOUTH Africa is home to millions of immigrants, mainly from Lesotho, Nigeria, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The regional giant has played an immense role for more than a century in attracting labour for it...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Tatenda Mazarura
South Africa to ban foreigners from starting businesses in some sectors
Government will introduce new employment quotas on foreign workers, as well as ban foreigners from starting small businesses in some sectors.On Monday, Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nx...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 08:58hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
SA govt tackles violence against Zimbabweans
THE South African government has started tackling attacks on foreigners, including Zimbabweans, by a grouping that launched an anti-foreigner campaign it calls Operation Dudula.The campaign ha...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
All round changes as ZAA enters new era
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) has announced Nicolatte Matuku as the new ZAA Global CEO, with publisher Sakhile Khanye stepping in as the Country Director for ZAA UK, in a change of leadership at the...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 13:06hrs | 30 | by Agencies
New brooms at ZimAchievers Awards
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) has appointed Nicolette Matuku as the new ZAA Global chief executive, with publisher Sakhile Khanye stepping in as the country director for ZAA UK.Matuku ta...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Looming SA deportations a wake-up call to Zimbabwe
THE decision by South Africa this week to stop extending the Special Zimbabweans Exemption Permits (ZEP) that first came into force in 2017, was inevitable as President Cyril Ramaphosa's government ha...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA panic over permits
Zimbabweans in South Africa are in limbo over the fate of their exemption permits that are set to expire in December this year, as the South African government is mum on the way forward.Althou...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:36hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans edgy over delayed SA permits renewal
CLOSE to 198 000 diasporans using Zimbabwean Special Dispensation permits (ZSDP) in South Africa have been unsettled by the host country's delays in renewing their permits.The Zimbabweans unde...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Anxiety as Zimbabweans' permits expire in December
SOUTH Africa has not said a word regarding the status of Zimbabweans staying in that country under the Zimbabwean Special Dispensation Permits (ZSDP) which are set to expire in December.Zimbab...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:49hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Mbira musician in Costa Rica
Acclaimed Afro-jazz songbird and multi award winner Hope Masike has been invited to the inaugural International Day for the People of African...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:33hrs | 6 | by Shelton Muchena
'Zimbabwe diaspora remittances overtake foreign aid'
Diaspora remittances have overtaken foreign aid, as Zimbabweans abroad sent home over US$1 billion in 2020, the highest ever contribution made to the local economy, Finance and Economic Development Mi...Published: 04 May 2021 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in the diaspora remitted US$1 billion in 2020
ZIMBABWEANS in the diaspora last year sent home a total of US$1 billion, the highest ever contribution made to the local economy.Addressing journalists in Bulawayo over the last weekend, Finan...Published: 04 May 2021 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa places hope on AfCFTA, NDS1
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1), an economic blueprint that came into effect last month, will give fresh impetus to Zimbabwe's economic recovery ...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Africa's free trade area opens for business
Trading under the continental free trade agreement started on 1st Jan. African countries opened their markets on 1st January under the continental free...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 08:37hrs | 4 | by Franck Kuwonu
South Africa shuts illegal immigrants from Covid-19 vaccination roll out
South Africa, which will take delivery of its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines from India on Monday, has sparked controversy after declaring it will exclude millions of undocumented immigrants from it...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 05:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic tensions surge in South Africa
As the coronavirus outbreak has slammed the South African economy and pushed unemployment to a 17-year high, it's awakened a recurrent social demon: xenophobia.Anti-immigrant groups have stage...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 18:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic attacks resurface in SA
THE African Diaspora Global Network (ADGN) and Migrants Workers' Association-SA (MWA-SA), organisations led by Zimbabweans in South Africa have expressed concern over the renewed attacks and burning o...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe diaspora children suffer from identity crisis
If you're experiencing an identity crisis, you may be questioning your sense of identity. This often occurs due to big changes or stressors in life, or due to factors such as age or advancement from a...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:14hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
ZAA SA Nominees announces as Dates are set for SA and Botswana dates
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) has announced the nominee and voting dates for the ZAA SA and Botswana editions which are set to be held on 5 and 11 December 2020, respectively.ZAA SA will...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 18:33hrs | 3 | by Agencies
Fashion and fabric: African history told through printed wax clothing
A mainstay of African fashion, "ankara," "wax hollandais "or "kitenge" fabric holds up a mirror to history In most West and Central African main market...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:12hrs | 13 | by Franck Kuwonu
Honouring the war spirit
COMRADE Muchazotida, born Sekai, was a member of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, better known as ZANLA.She died during the 1977 Chimoio Attack by the army of racist Rhodesia....Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:49hrs | | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
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