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English language test dashes nurses' hopes of filling UK jobs
As a fluent English speaker, Indian-trained nurse Deepa was surprised to learn she had to sit a language test to practise in Britain, her home for many years. She was even more shocked when she failed...Published: 14 hrs ago | 242 | by Staff reporter
Chisora to use £2m Fury pay-day to keep kids in private school and away from his old dangerous neighbourhood
DEREK CHISORA will use his £2million Tyson Fury windfall to keep his daughters in private school and away from his old dangerous neighbourhood.The 38-year-old heavyweight moved to North Londo...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:02hrs | 962 | by Staff reporter
British newspaper brands Cyril Ramaphosa as a 'dreadful fellow' after state visit to UK
President Cyril Ramaphosa has been labelled "a dreadful fellow" by the UK-based Sunday Times newspaper, where he was described as a man who prefers "folded stuff" over chequebooks.In the...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:35hrs | 4250 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sanctions hurting South Africa, says Ramphosa
SOUTH African President, Cyril Ramphosa, has pleaded with the British monarch and government to facilitate a smooth re-admission of Zimbabwe into the Commonwealth and lift the sanctions imposed on the...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter
Does Zimbabwe need the Commonwealth?
ZIMBABWE joined the Commonwealth in 1980 after gaining independence from Britain - in what appeared to be a major victory for the Commonwealth. Twenty-three years down the road, Zimbabwe quit the Comm...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 287 | by Vusi Nyamazana
Mnangagwa hails 'excellent' China relations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa hailed "excellent" relations with China as he delivered for the first time a State of the Nation address at a new multimillion-dollar parliament building gifted by the Asi...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa plans to charm Brits into lifting Zimbabwean sanctions
When President Cyril Ramaphosa meets newly appointed UK prime minister Rishi Sunak this week, he will try to persuade him to have the sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe lifted.This is according to ...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 05:01hrs | 1113 | by Staff reporter
Why Jonathan Moyo apologised to Zanu-PF
Exiled former ministers Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao last week wrote a joint letter apologising to Zanu-PF members for supporting President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rival Nelson Chamisa in the 2018 el...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:41hrs | 2318 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth: Let's not take chances
SPEAKING at the National Sports Stadium to mark Zimbabwe's 24th independence anniversary on April 18, 2004 and four months after the southern African nation withdrew from the Commonwealth of Nations a...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'overruns' NBS housing event
COMMISSIONING of 600 National Building Society (NBS) houses in Dzivarasekwa, Harare, was yesterday turned into a Zanu-PF campaign rally.Zanu-PF supporters were bussed to the venue despite that...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:52hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth team visiting Zimbabwe starts mission
THE visiting Commonwealth assessment team, which arrived in the country on Saturday for a week-long working visit, will today start engagements with several stakeholders as part of its brief to gather...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:09hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Could Smith's plan for independence have led to a better Zimbabwe?
Today is 11 November - a day marked in this country’s history as when then Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith, in a daring move, stubbornly cut off ties with the colonial British Crown - by unilateral...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 14:46hrs | 2823 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Call to ban biased observers from Britain
ZIMBABWE is a friend to all and an enemy to none, but the British House of Lords should not take that as a sign of weakness, Zanu-PF Chief whip Pupurai Togarepi has said.This comes after some ...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition party ZRF threatens to boycott 2023 elections over sanctions
A new political party, Zimbabwe Republican Front (ZRF) has claimed that the economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Western countries were affecting the country's electoral processes.The par...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:33hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers raise nation's flag high
ZIMBABWEANS in the Diaspora continue to fly the nation's flag high through excellence in their professions, a product of the country's education system.In recent months, Zimbabweans, from stud...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:23hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF congress: The Great Betrayal
IF the late former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith felt betrayed by the British government and his allies - including apartheid South Africa - whom he expected to side with him to keep Rhod...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:52hrs | 812 | by Staff reporter
Britain to engage Ramaphosa over Zimbabwe's 2023 polls
BRITAIN will engage South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa to lead efforts to make African leaders put pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ensure that Zimbabwe's 2023 general elections are f...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:52hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
Colonialist MPs quiz minister over worsening Zimbabwe crisis
BRITISH legislators on Thursday quizzed the country's minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Frank Zacharias Robin Goldsmith, over the continued persecution of opposition off...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:51hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
Britain says no signs Zimbabwe's elections will be free, fair
THE British Parliament has expressed concern over the lack of signs that Zimbabwe's 2023 elections would be credible, saying there was a shortage of meaningful political, economic and human rights ref...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 05:04hrs | 1494 | by Staff reporter
Will he really 'face down' China?
The UK has a new prime minister… Today's world news is evidently dominated by a variety of interesting and illuminating stories, expectations, theories, debates and analyses about Mr. ...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 11:25hrs | 815 | by Ndaba Sibanda
Ramaphosa slams US for 'panic-driven' Sandton terror alert
President Cyril Ramaphosa has criticised the US, saying it jumped the gun by issuing a terror alert for Sandton, Johannesburg, before speaking to local authorities.The US embassy on Wednesday ...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:30hrs | 791 | by Staff reporter
Britain actually demanded Zimbabwe independence and majority rule before ZANU PF!
I always find it most disingenuous and particularly infatuating listening to the Zimbabwe ruling elite distract from valid demands from the international community for the respect of human rights in t...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 22:13hrs | 900 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZAPU savages Britain and EU
OPPOSITION ZAPU president, Sibangilizwe Nkomo has said his party will not take an active role in calling for an end to the sanctions regime as this was a fight between those who founded Zanu-PF, Brita...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:20hrs | 1610 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes Africa anti-sanctions stance
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has saluted member states of the Southern African Development Community, the African Union and the progressive world for standing with Zimbabwe in the clarion call for the uncondit...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | 66 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents boycott anti-sanctions campaign
THE anti-sanctions provincial campaign scheduled for Bulawayo Tuesday attracted a paltry crowd with ordinary citizens and opposition parties boycotting the event.The function, which was initia...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1111 | by Staff reporter
UK lies about Zimbabwe sanctions
The United Kingdom (UK) has dismissed continued claims its sanctions and those imposed collectively with western allies on Zimbabwe have impeded economic development in its troubled former colon...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 19:41hrs | 1699 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa group vows Chamisa-led CCC will never rule Zimbabwe
Zanu-PF parallel structure, Vapostori for Economic Development (ED), has vowed to defend President Emmerson Mnangagwa and declared the opposition will never rule Zimbabwe.This comes as the rul...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | 2822 | by Staff reporter
First British African Asian premier
Rishi Sunak will become the UK's first British Asian prime minister after his only remaining rival pulled out of the Tory leadership contest.Nearly 200 Conservative MPs publicly backed the for...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 1608 | by Staff reporter
Kenya linked Rishi Sunak to become UK prime minister
Rishi Sunak will become Britain's next prime minister after he won the race on Monday to lead the Conservative Party, tasked with steering a deeply divided country through an economic downturn set to ...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 17:56hrs | 816 | by Staff reporter
Comedian probes Mugabe's life
BRITISH-ZIMBABWEAN comedian Munya Chawawa is preparing to launch a new documentary comedy titled How to Survive A Dictator with the production house Rumpus Media.Chawawa (29) is to meet the fr...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 19:03hrs | 1911 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube transforms from technocrat to political player
IF ever there was any doubt, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has fully abandoned his posture as a neutral technocrat after being elected a Zanu-PF central committee member last weekend.The centr...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 18:55hrs | 2490 | by Staff reporter
Kagame comes to Zimbabwe to bolster Zanu-PF's 2023 poll campaign
RWANDAN President Paul Kagame will be in Zimbabwe next week to launch a massive US$800 million rural electrification project which President Emmerson Mnangagwa sees as a game changer in his bid to sec...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:25hrs | 3492 | by Staff reporter
Liz Truss resigns, 6 weeks after becoming UK Prime Minister
Liz Truss said on Thursday she was resigning as British prime minister just six weeks after she was appointed, brought down by an economic programme that sent shockwaves through financial markets last...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:08hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe embarks on rebranding journey
ZIMBABWE is embarking on a journey to repair its image, which was battered by the Western media over the years through negative publicity.The assault on its image perception by the West follow...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions weighing on Zimbabwe banking sector
ILLEGAL sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by western countries, led by Britain and America, have had a detrimental impact on the country's financial services sector as the embargo has seen the number of c...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF is blatantly rigging 2023 and EU gearing to grant it legitimacy under guess of 'constructive dialogue'!
"EU abandons confrontation with Zimbabwe!" screamed The Herald headline! "CHARMED by President Mnangagwa's open door policy and far-reaching economic reforms, more investors will be coming fro...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 23:13hrs | 699 | by Wilbert Mukori
Colonialists abandon confrontation with Zimbabwe
CHARMED by President Mnangagwa's open door policy and far reaching economic reforms, more investors will be coming from the European Union (EU) which is prepared to extend loans to the private sector ...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:55hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt blocks nurses exodus
GOVERNMENT has reportedly stopped issuing clearance letters for nurses in a bid to frustrate them from leaving the country for greener pastures.This follows mass resignations that have hit the...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 3804 | by Staff reporter
Mr President, you hold on power through brutality
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, Zimbabwe has long been in socio-economic dire straits. Her citizenry are rendered economic wanderers. Even children of liberation veterans ar...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 786 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mnangagwa says 'No to foreign interference'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said he would not brook foreign interference in Zimbabwe's internal affairs.Addressing mourners at the burial of the late national hero Highten Nkomo at ...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | 921 | by Staff reporter
'Diaspora bond can only worsen Zimbabwe's situation'
ANALYSTS have described Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's latest attempt to secure investment from Zimbabweans living in the diaspora through a diaspora bond as "day dreaming".Addressing diaspor...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:13hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions not root cause of crisis: SA?
SOUTH Africa does not believe that the root cause of Zimbabwe's socio-economic problems is sanctions imposed on Harare by the West as widely thought.Instead, Pretoria says it currently support...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:16hrs | 1081 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe strikes gold in US
President Mnangagwa returned home triumphantly from the United States (US) yesterday where he received the backing of dozens of African countries for the unconditional removal of illegal sanctions imp...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 05:55hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
Anti-sanctions crusade at UNGA excites Mnangagwa
THE just-ended United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) turned into an anti-sanctions crusade with several African leaders singing from the same hymn book condemning the embargo against Zimbabwe, much t...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 19:28hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa refused to sign Queen Elizabeth III's book of condolences until....
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has claimed that he refused to go to the British embassy in Harare to sign the book of condolences following the death of Queen Elizabeth 11 earlier this month.Acc...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 5246 | by Staff reporter
Colonialism was not an event, but a long-term project of global control
Queen Elizabeth II was finally laid to rest last week after 96 years of life and 70 years of service as the Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until she die...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:56hrs | 126 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe is nobody's little boy
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has revealed how the British made a major climbdown after he insisted that he could not sign the book of condolences for the late Queen Elizabeth II because Zimbabwe is under illeg...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:54hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Why Zanu, Zanu-PF were successful in the 1970s, 80s and 90s
I was in a meeting recently when someone who is not a member of Zanu or Zanu-PF asked the question: Why was Zanu and Zanu-PF successful in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and not successful after 2001? ...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:48hrs | 617 | by Fay Chung
Kenya's William Ruto says sanctions impoverish ordinary Zimbabweans
Newly installed Kenyan president William Ruto has joined seemingly unyielding calls by his African peers to have western imposed sanctions against Zimbabwe lifted unconditionally.In his inaugu...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:37hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
The politics of mourning Queen Elizabeth II
QUEEN Elizabeth II's death has touched different people differently considering Britain's colonial legacy of plunder and the monarch's indifference to those atrocities.However, in Zimbabwe the...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:43hrs | 403 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
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