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Plumtree pilot defies racial attitudes to pursue dream
FORTY years and still counting years of flying different aircraft types, heads of States, the late Prince Philip; husband to the late Queen Elizabeth II, and roles spanning basic flying, advanced flyi...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Women should be wary of the 'Black police chief phenomenon' but strive to hold real power and influence in society
It is always encouraging reading news reports of women raising up the most treacherous ladder of power - which is usually fraught with seemingly insurmountable challenges, and much resistance from tho...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 14:02hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Being black in Ukraine
A 19-year-old Zimbabwean student who escaped the war in Ukraine says she "still wants to run" when she hears a siren.Blessing Mushipe is a medical student at Karazin National University in Kha...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ukraine war: Zimbabwean students relive horror
It has been six days since she left Ukraine, but 19-year-old Blessing Mushipe is still terrified.The medical student at Karazin National University in Kharkov, Ukraine's second largest city, s...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean young farmers lead the charge in agriculture
Agriculture in Zimbabwe is on an upswing and young people are the driving force. For example, the country is set to harvest 2.8 million tons of maize this year, triple the 2020 harvest, and making it ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 15:42hrs | 5 | by Audrey Simango
Uneducated white man named Democratic Alliance leader
Democratic Alliance (DA), South Africa's largest opposition party, has elected John Steenhuisen as its new leader.The 44-year-old, who has acted as interim party leader since its first Black l...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 18:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to give foreign white farmers their seized land
Foreign white farmers settled in Zimbabwe whose land was seized under Robert Mugabe can apply to get it back and will be offered land elsewhere if restitution proves impractical, the government said o...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 18:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
White farmers return to Zimbabwe
The change in government in Zimbabwe is inspiring hope among some white farmers, nearly two decades after the start of the sometimes-violent land reform programme, a news report says.President...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 16:50hrs | 2 | by Satff reporter
Mnangagwa's lease somersault not enough
GOVERNMENT'S recent policy shift to grant the few remaining white farmers in Zimbabwe with 99-year land leases does not address the inherent structural flaws of the legal instrument, which still remai...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Tinashe Kairiza
Mnangagwa offers 99-year leases to white farmers
HUNDREDS of white farmers who had been discriminated against while their black counterparts were getting 99 yearlong leases instead of 5 years have a reason to celebrate as they have now been put in t...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa and the white Zimbabwean
Zimbabweans on the 24th of November witnessed the swearing in of a new head of state for the first time in 37 years since indipendence from Britain.His Excellence President ED Mnangagwa was swor...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 07:33hrs | | by Conilious Toga
Mugabe's govt issues leases to white farmers
Government has started issuing leases to white commercial farmers who were recommended to remain on their properties throughout the country.Lands and Rural Resettlement Minister Dr Douglas Mom...Published: 25 Jan 2016 at 05:31hrs | | by George Maponga
'I am proud of being Ndebele,' says white Zimbabwean
Being white in Zimbabwe has for the past decade been a nightmare for some following an often-violent land reform program that began in 2000, dispossessing them of fertile farming land.Many whi...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 13:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Racism exposed at Ingutsheni Hospital
TESTIMONY by a former nurse aide at Ingutsheni Hospital during an inquest into the death of a psychiatric patient who allegedly burnt himself to death last year, has exposed possible discriminatory b...Published: 05 Sep 2014 at 06:39hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
SA political party eyes Zimbabwe farm model
South Africa can learn from the successes of Zimbabwe's controversial land reform programme, SA Communist Party (SACP) deputy chairman Thulas Nxesi said on Sunday.In a speech delivered at the ...Published: 24 Jun 2013 at 17:37hrs | | by iol
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