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Zimbabwe joins African push for reparations from Britain

Zimbabwe has joined other African nations in calling on Britain to provide reparations for "historic colonial crimes," pledging solidarity at the ongoing Second African Union-Caribbean Community Summit in Ethiopia.The summit, held under th…

Published: 11 Sep 2025 at 12:51hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter

Britain cosies up to Zimbabwe

In early June, Britain's Africa minister Lord Collins flew to Harare to meet Zimbabwe's octogenarian president, Emmerson Mnangagwa.The meeting in the capital city, which focused on trade between the two countries, coincided with growing fe…

Published: 26 Aug 2025 at 08:08hrs | 1729 | by Staff reporter

How Britain plans to keep Zimbabwe poor

After decades of isolation, Britain has returned to Zimbabwe - not with apologies, but with a billion-dollar shopping list and a polished script about "mutual benefit." At the centre of the conversation? Lithium. Suddenly, Zimbabwe's lithi…

Published: 09 Aug 2025 at 14:25hrs | 734 | by Sizwe SikaMusi

British objections stall Zimbabwe's bid to rejoin the club of colonies

Zimbabwe's bid to rejoin the Commonwealth has hit a stumbling block, with British objections delaying the southern African nation's re-admission, Foreign Affairs Minister Amon Murwira revealed in Parliament last week.Murwira said despite Z…

Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 09:04hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter

Slough is Britain's most miserable place to live

BRITAIN'S most miserable places to live have been named in a new shortlist - but does your hometown make the cut? A yearly happiness study by property website Rightmove has revealed that Slough in Berkshire, is the most miserable place to …

Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 16:44hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe inches closer to rejoining Britain's colonies club

Zimbabwe's "remarkable democratic progress" has positioned the nation closer to rejoining the Commonwealth, the bloc's secretary-general, Ms. Patricia Scotland, has said.As Zimbabwe intensifies its re-engagement efforts under President Emm…

Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:20hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa calls for repatriation of Zimbabwe skulls from British museums

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has renewed calls for the repatriation of the remains of Chimurenga war heroes from Britain, emphasizing the need for their interment in "a dignified manner." This statement was made during his address at the f…

Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:27hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa tells Britain to apologise

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on the British government to apologize for its century-long colonial rule in Zimbabwe, which dispossessed indigenous people of their land and subjected them to various forms of abuse. He made these r…

Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:17hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa demands apology, reparations from Britain for colonial atrocities

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on the British government to formally apologize for the historical injustices endured by indigenous Zimbabweans during the colonial era, which spanned from 1890 to 1980. His comments came during the …

Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 06:33hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter

Britain should have compensated Zimbabwe first!

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has stated that Britain should have compensated Zimbabwe before the southern African country addresses compensation for white commercial farmers regarding improvements made to the land.Speaking at the Zimbabwe …

Published: 31 Oct 2024 at 16:42hrs | 807 | by Staff reporter

Britain's former colonies should be thankful for the legacy of empire

Britain's former colonies should be thankful for the legacy of empire, not demanding reparations, according to the Conservative leadership candidate Robert Jenrick.In comments that were described by a Labour MP as "deeply offensive", the f…

Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 09:51hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa spokesman says Commonwealth is a 'needless albatross'

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba says he would rather Zimbabwe quits the Commonwealth forever, even as the ruling Zanu PF party has been lobbying some members of the club of former British colonies to lift the count…

Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 16:19hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter

The real story behind Britain's withdrawal from Zimbabwe's land reform: Exposing corruption and mismanagement

AS SOUTHERN Africa approaches another 'SADC Anti-Sanctions Day,' the Zimbabwean government is once again amplifying the narrative that economic sanctions, particularly from Western countries like the U.S. and the UK, are responsible for th…

Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:37hrs | 879 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

'Britain will not pay slave trade reparations'

Britain will not raise the issue of reparations for transatlantic slavery at a meeting of Commonwealth nations this week, according to a Reuters report on Monday.The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) kicked off in Samoa on M…

Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 10:51hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter

Britain's interference in the US presidential election will backfire badly

Foreign interventions in elections or referenda rarely end well for the interventionists. In 2016, then US President Barack Obama foolishly lectured the British people on how they should vote in the upcoming referendum on EU membership, wa…

Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 20:22hrs | 989 | by Nile Gardiner

Zimbabwe blow as Britain scraps dependent visa for migrant workers

Zimbabweans hoping to migrate to the United Kingdom to take up better paying job opportunities under the rich country's health and social care sector have been dealt a blow after authorities in London Monday announced tough immigration mea…

Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:44hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

'Britain keen on Zimbabwe's Commonwealth readmission'

BRITISH ambassador to Zimbabwe, Peter Vowles, has said his country is keen to have Zimbabwe readmitted into the Commonwealth and end two decades of isolation.In an exclusive interview with NewsDay on the sidelines of World Children's Day c…

Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter

Haruzivishe takes Sikhala's case to British Parliament

EXILED opposition activist Makomborero Haruzivishe took the matter of Job Sikhala's prolonged political imprisonment to the British Parliament on 19 April 2023, hoping to increase international awareness over the case.Haruzivishe joined ha…

Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 20:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Inflation triggers food shortages in Britain

Britain has been hit by a massive food shortage that has been triggered by a combination of factors that include inflation and a biting energy crisis. According to reports from British media the country's biggest supermarkets are limiting …

Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

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 ill-informed British parliamentarians blatantly…

Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 1 | 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 former chancellor ahead of the nomination deadline…

Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Colonialism belongs to old time Britain

ASSERTIONS by one Tendai Ruben Mbofana (Zim leaders eagerly defending Chinese colonialism! NewsDay May 25, 2022) that China has colonised Zimbabwe cannot go unchallenged.The contents of the so-called Open Letter to President Emmerson Mnang…

Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Christopher Mahove

Britain and the USA gave Putin the idea of invasion, by doing this in Iraq, Libya, Serbia etc

In the long-ago summer of 2010, I found myself in the beautiful harbour of Sevastopol, surveying the rival fleets of Russia and Ukraine as they rode at anchor in the lovely Crimean sunshine. One great fortress was adorned with banners proc…

Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 08:45hrs | 18 | by Peter Hitchens

Breakthrough as Zimbabwe pastors meet Anglican leader over sanctions

A delegation of Zimbabwean clerics organized as the Zimbabwe churches' sanctions relief initiative (ZICSRI) on Monday held a meeting with Anglican's global leader met the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, to discuss the sanctions imp…

Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 19:54hrs | 13 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Mugabe's remains could be exhumed by family, and sent to Britain for a safer burial

If the Government of Zimbabwe does not want to be humiliated, they should leave Mugabe's remains where family chose to bury him. There would be indelible humiliation if Grace Mugabe   decided to ask the British Government to take…

Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 22:06hrs | 4 | by Ryton Dzimiri

Britain welcomes new global news channel

From tomorrow at 8pm, Britons will have a new global news channel called GB News, which is set to be a rival of Sky, ITV and BBC news.The launch of GB News comes as COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in Britain have beem eased, allowing for so…

Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 21:39hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter

Britain desperately needs Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe

THE most outlandish aspect of Britain's past and recent actions is that despite its posturing on Zimbabwe, the former colonial power desperately needs Harare for its economic revival efforts, especially after its rather inglorious exit fro…

Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 05:49hrs | | by Golden Guvamatanga

Zimbabwe keen to rejoin Commonwealth

Government will prioritise rejoining the Commonwealth as a launch-pad to unlock international goodwill and sustain re-engagement milestones already realised through resumption of political dialogue with international blocs such as the Euro…

Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

'Britain was behind Zimbabwe's Gukurahundi genocide'

THE opposition Zapu party has dismissed claims by prominent historian Stuart Doran that the British government was not involved in the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres where over 20 000 civilians were killed in Matabeleland and Midlands provinc…

Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Britain's New African Empire

Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange control over $1trillion worth of Africaâ€™s resources in just five commodities â€“ oil, gold, diamonds, coal and platinum. My research for the NGO, War on Want, which has just been published, r…

Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 10:16hrs | | by Mark Curtis

More details on Britain's involvement in Chiwenga's coup emerge

High ranking officials in the British government worked tirelessly to make certain that the bloodless coup that as effected by Former Army General Constantino Chiwenga in November 2017 succeeded. In a detailed report obtained from the…

Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 22:31hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Did Britain back Mnangagwa?

Nyathi said that in the meeting, Laing "sounded to be really forcing a line that Mnangagwa is the person to work with, and she wanted our opinions around that".Zanu-PF's opponents have alleged a years-long close relationship between Laing …

Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:08hrs | 1 | by Rahul Nagvekar

Britain must stop duplicity, treachery

HE outburst by British Minister for Africa, Harriet Baldwin, that the United Kingdom has all but lost confidence in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime is unfortunate.Not that we supported them in the first place or that we totally agree…

Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 19:53hrs | 1 | by Editorial - newsday

Britain's bet on Mnangagwa victory hangs in the balance

Efforts to nurse Zimbabwe back to international respectability depended on free and fair elections, but the plan appears to be unravelling.Ever since the then Africa minister Rory Stewart took the strategic bet to rush to Harare in Novembe…

Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 12:24hrs | | by Patrick Wintour

Mnangagwa meets visiting British MPs

Two British legislators have jetted into the country and immediately met President Emmerson Mnangagwa at his Munhumutapa offices in Harare this evening.The two; Katie Hoie, who chairs a group of British legislators in Parliament, and Conor…

Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 16:32hrs | | by Staff reporter

Britain called out for 'open support to Mnangagwa'

Britain's alleged staunch support for Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pushed it into an increasingly acrimonious corner, with opposition and diplomats warning that the former colonial power is taking a huge gamble.Zimbabwe's ma…

Published: 14 May 2018 at 14:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa warns Britain

MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa yesterday complained that the British government was overlooking crucial democratic reforms in favour of managing political stability in Zimbabwe, warning this could lead to post-election …

Published: 09 May 2018 at 13:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Britain ready to work with Zimbabwe

In terms of value, the combined total value of UK projects approved by the Zimbabwe Investment Authority between 2014 and 2017 was more than US$336 million. These projects are all at various stages of completion.I made a regional working v…

Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 17:37hrs | 4 | by Ambassador Catriona Laing

Mnangagwa: Is the West now seeking new, better puppet?

ZIMBABWE'S political discourse is intriguing. What is particularly striking is how the same old narrative that shaped Rhodesia is today playing a central role in all the factional dynamics bedeviling or otherwise reshaping the country's fo…

Published: 10 Feb 2018 at 09:55hrs | 1 | by Staff writer

Britain, EU divided over Zimbabwe funding

SHARP differences have emerged between Britain and its counterparts in the European Union over the funding and support to be given to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration ahead of the make-or-break general elections this year.Brit…

Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 11:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

MDC, Zanu PF contesting for recognition by the west - ZCP

The Zimbabwe Communist Party secretary general Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena has said at the turn of the political events which saw the ouster of Robert Mugabe the nation has seen both Zanu PF and MDC contesting for recognition by the western…

Published: 16 Dec 2017 at 12:59hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes

Aid agencies and civic organisations promoting government irresponsibility and community dependency

It was with great relief reading in Britain's Daily Express how calls by that country's taxpayers to ban aid to the so-called 'Third World' were growing louder - as these had had no positive impact.Donor aid to countries such as Zimbabwe h…

Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Britain's vested interests in the newly independent Zimbabwe

THIS is the third in a series of articles of a detailed research paper by British academic Hazel Cameron on the state-sponsored killings of civilians by Zimbabwean security forces between 1982 and 1987 under the pretext of suppressing diss…

Published: 19 May 2017 at 07:57hrs | 10 | by Hazel Cameron ,British academic

Is the UK referendum result to leave EU legally binding?

The question in most people's minds is whether the referendum result "to leave" is legally binding on the United Kingdom. One fundamental truth is that the United Kingdom parliament is sovereign and the leader of the country, in this insta…

Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 06:34hrs | | by Lloyd Msipa

Britain, EU plunged into uncertainty by exit vote

London - Britain has jumped. Now it is wildly searching for the parachute.The UK's unprecedented decision to leave the European Union sent shockwaves through the country and around the world on Friday, rocking financial markets, toppling P…

Published: 25 Jun 2016 at 09:46hrs | 2 | by Agencies

Britain 'invaded, occupied and colonised' Australia

A top Australian university has rejected claims it is trying to rewrite the nation's colonial history.Students are being encouraged to use the term "invaded" rather than "settled" or "discovered", and avoid the word "Aborigines".The Univer…

Published: 30 Mar 2016 at 12:55hrs | 2 | by BBC

I can't scientifically explain how God sent me to Britain from Zimbabwe

Science works on proof. But, I have no explanation how, as a rural raised Zimbabwean boy, I ended up living  in Britain. I know, however that, scientifically, when human beings evolved from Homo Habilis, they developed the ability to …

Published: 16 Aug 2015 at 13:10hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri

What Britain owes Zimbabwe

I HAVE written several articles that have addressed Zimbabwean human rights and rule of law, as well as South African foreign policy. I now turn my attention to Zimbabwean legal constitutional history and in particular "The Declaration of …

Published: 22 Jun 2015 at 20:40hrs | 1 | by Ken Sibanda

Britain's Charm Offensive - as Zim, West mend relations

THE British government will this month send a trade delegation to Zimbabwe in a bid to explore possible areas of investment, a State controlled publication reported today.The British government has in the past been critical of the Zimbabwe…

Published: 03 Oct 2014 at 06:22hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter

'British govt sweating to get Zimbabwe back in the Commonwealth'

In a desperate bid to give the Commonwealth some measure of respect and relevance, the British government is once again sweating to have Zimbabwe back in the 53-member club which has been accused of espousing neo-colonial interests.Accordi…

Published: 09 Nov 2013 at 19:30hrs | 16 | by Staff Reporter

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