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UK opens visa centre in Bulawayo
Residents in the southern parts of Zimbabwe can now apply for UK visas closer to home following the official opening of a new application centre in Bulawayo.The facility, housed at the Bulaway...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 16:08hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Colonial master pledges stronger trade and investment ties with its colony
The United Kingdom has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening relations with Zimbabwe, placing a particular focus on boosting trade and investment between the two countries. This was revealed by B...Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:16hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe edgy over delayed return of Nehanda skull
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe has emphasized the need to conclude discussions on the repatriation of skulls of Zimbabwean heroes taken to Britain during the colonial era. ...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 08:18hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
UK still holding unto Zimbabwean skulls
The British Government has expressed its commitment to repatriating the skulls of Zimbabwean heroes taken to Britain during the colonial era, British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Peter Vowles said yesterday...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 08:30hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Zimpricecheck wins fourth Value Creation Challenge
Garikai Dzoma of Zimpricecheck won the 2024 Value Creation Challenge, beating 11 other finalists in a competition for budding entrepreneurs at the finale last Friday, winning US$13 000 in total seed f...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 17:07hrs | 188 | by Staff Reporter
Zim demining fund to create opportunities for women: UK Ambassador
The United Kingdom has announced an additional USD5.5 million fund to support landmine clearance in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East and Central provinces while also seeking to raise risky-related educatio...Published: 21 Sep 2024 at 10:47hrs | 859 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Chivayo and Russia: Lessons from South Africa
Among those Zimbabweans observing the elections in South Africa was Owen Chikukwa in Cape Town.The loss of power by the African National Congress can easily be explained. Brother Owen put it s...Published: 23 Jun 2024 at 10:46hrs | 17 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Has Chamisa learnt from his mistakes?
MY chance encounter with Nelson Chamisa at the British ambassador's residence last week triggered some reflection.At this beautiful garden party to celebrate King Charles III's birthday, I not...Published: 20 Jun 2024 at 07:27hrs | 39 | by Trevor Ncube
Chamisa breaks silence on his game plan
OPPOSITION politician Nelson Chamisa yesterday revealed that he had personally embarked on grassroots campaigns in villages to map his next political move and distanced himself from any other politica...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe debt clearance talks on despite US disengagement
THE United States, through its embassy in Harare, has decided to disengage from participation in Zimbabwe's debt resolution and clearance programme and the round of negotiations resuming next month....Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UK and Zimbabwe seek enhanced cooperation to strengthen bilateral relations
In a bid to foster stronger ties and mend relations, the United Kingdom is actively pursuing constructive dialogue with Zimbabwe. British Ambassador to Zimbabwe, His Excellency Pete Vowles, expressed ...Published: 10 Dec 2023 at 09:36hrs | 32 | by Staff Reporter
US$32m windfall for Zimbabwe education sector
The United Kingdom has unveiled a whopping US$32,4 million to Zimbabwe's education sector specifically to benefit disadvantaged schools, support a new curriculum and improve student retention....Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 16:40hrs | 11 | 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 New...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa jets into London
President Mnangagwa left Harare for London last night, and will tomorrow join world leaders, celebrities and more than 2 000 guests for the coronation of King Charles III, the monarch of the United Ki...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK re-engagement drive in disarray
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-engagement of the United Kingdom ahead of the next elections has been thrown into disarray after British parliamentarians asked the secretary of state to revoke an in...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 19:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube claims credit for Cowdray Park clinic
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has been exposed for hijacking a clinic in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park, claiming to have facilitated its construction as part of his election campaign.Ncube is eyeing...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa vows to stop Mnangagwa
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has vowed to stop President Emmerson Mnangagwa from manipulating the forthcoming elections through unorthodox means as the two prepare for ano...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa officially accepts invitation to King Charles coronation
President Mnangagwa has officially accepted an invitation to attend the coronation of King Charles III in the UK on 6 May as Zimbabwe continues to make headway in its engagement and re-engagement init...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 21:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets an official invitation to attend King Charles III coronation
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has been officially invited to attend King Charles III coronation in May.Mnangagwa met the British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson on Tuesday at the State...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 16:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans danced when Mugabe fell, now life is worse than ever
For Jasmine Toffa, the hardest moment of her life was not being beaten black and blue by regime thugs. It came when the Zimbabwean MP appeared in parliament after surgery, broken hands in plaster, and...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:15hrs | 13 | by Christina Lamb for The Sunday Times (UK)
UK envoy urges Zimbabwe girls to shun early marriages
BRITISH ambassador to Zimbabwe, Melanie Robinson has urged young girls in the country to shun early marriages and set their sights higher in life despite the challenges they face.In a letter t...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa could defeat the unreformed Mnangagwa'
ZIMBABWE has been reeling under a multifaceted economic and political crisis since 2000, and it appears there is no end in sight. Amid chronic high inflation, Zimbabwe is confronted with a crucial gen...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF MPs want 2023 elections postponed
With the party popularity nosediving from 51% in 2018 down to below 30% at present due to poverty, unemployment and poor economic policies, ZANU PF Members of Parliament (MPs) are sensing danger and w...Published: 25 May 2022 at 10:26hrs | 1 | by John Mbizvo
ZANU-PF MPs want 2023 elections postponed
With the party popularity nosediving from 51% in 2018 down to below 30% at present due to poverty, unemployment and poor economic policies, ZANU PF Members of Parliament (MPs) are sensing danger and w...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:05hrs | 10 | by John Mbizvo, Political Analyst
Ex-UK envoy roasted over Mnangagwa links
FORMER British ambassador to Zimbabwe, Catriona Laing has been roasted by the United Kingdom Parliament for giving London misleading reports that portrayed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a "reformist...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-UK ambassador's Zanu-PF links exposed
THE United Kingdom lawmakers have exposed former British ambassador to Zimbabwe Catriona Laing over Zanu-PF links and misleading the government into believing President Emmerson Mnangagwa, then the la...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:13hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa had a chance to be a Gorbachev, but he chose to be Milosevic!!!
Zimbabweans celebrating the fall of the late ex-President Robert Mugabe during the November 2017 military coup which brought President E.D Mnangagwa to power. Pic Credit; Google.Reader, Mnanga...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:36hrs | 12 | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo Sr
Why MDC is afraid of elections
RECENT reports that the MDC Alliance is mulling pulling out of next year's by-elections and the 2023 polls did not come as a surprise, but only served to confirm what this publication has stated in th...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:30hrs | 12 | by Golden Guvamatanga
ZANU PF regime's uncivilized and undiplomatic savage diatribes main impediment to international re-engagement
In any relationship and encounter on this planet, there are bound to be some disagreements and misunderstandings.Even in the animal kingdom, there is always conflict to be expected - whether i...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 09:41hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa drools over COP26
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa is relishing his forthcoming visit to the United Kingdom for COP26 - the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference - the Zimbabwean leader will soon fly into Gla...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:44hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-sanctions charade finds few takers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-sanctions charade, including rallies and marches devoid of concrete political reforms, is senseless escapism from what the government ought to do to convince the We...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Former Chief Ndiweni wants Mnangagwa barred from COP26
DETHRONED Ntabazinduna chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni on Thursday last week led a group of demonstrators to the Zimbabwean embassy in the United Kingdom (UK) calling for President Emmerson Mnangagwa t...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Graft rife among bigwigs, says Zacc chair
ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo yesterday said major perpetrators of corruption in the country were bigwigs, making it difficult for ordinary citizens...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Harare, London entering another diplomatic level?
CORDIAL engagement and re-engagement between the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe testify that the Second Republic is quietly working and making good progress in terms of re-engaging the world. Thi...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa prepares for UK trip
President Mnangagwa yesterday met British Ambassador Melanie Robinson and discussed his forthcoming trip to the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) to be hosted by Britain ...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa spooked by spectre of youth revolution'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba last week accused award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono (HC), who is also a stern critic of the government of sour grapes after his bid...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:32hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono gave us MDC safe houses, claims Charamba
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has exposed how prominent journalist Hopewell Chin'ono worked for the ruling party ZANU PF and the government in selling out civic society members to the stat...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 12:41hrs | 13 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ABC of knowing Mbudziyadhura munyaya dzematongerwo enyika
Not many zealous seemingly political Zimbabweans know @daddyhope, better called Mbudziyadhura. Let me measure for you the depth of his political convictions and what sets him hissing. I will do so fro...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 19:38hrs | 1 | by Jamwanda
Chamisa says 'we're in a crisis', 'MDC stuck with unregistered COVID-19 vaccines'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says information on the ground, particularly in rural areas, was pointing to a dire situation in the country, hence the need for government to stop politi...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:15hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC stuck with over half a million 'unregistered COVID19 vaccines'?
GOVERNMENT yesterday sensationally claimed that the opposition MDC Alliance was stuck with over half a million "unregistered COVID19 vaccines" which it allegedly received from the United States embass...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe summons 'meddlesome' UK envoy
BRITISH ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson (pictured) was last week reportedly summoned and reprimanded by Foreign Affairs minister Fredrick Shava on allegations of deviating from her diplomatic ...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
British firm to set up £30m solar project in Zimbabwe
A British company is ready to set up a £30 million solar plant in the country, British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Ms Melanie Robinson said yesterday. The investment by the British company is an i...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
All eyes on Mamombe trial
BRITAIN says it is following closely the trial of MDC Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe and two other activists for allegedly faking their abduction.Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lauds thawing relations with France, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Spain
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa,, says Zimbabwe's frosty relations with key European Union (EU) countries have improved markedly ever since his government embarked on its dogged re-engagement drive with ...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 17:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe's land reform programme is non-negotiable
IN A sign that Harare may be hardening its stance towards the West, President Emmerson Mnangagwa says meaningful re-engagement with Washington and Brussels will only happen when they accept that there...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 20:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
EU ready to work with Mnangagwa
THE European Union (EU) has joined the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA) in re-affirming its readiness to offer more support to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 15:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is Mnangagwa a lost cause?
One of Barack Obama's contribution to US foreign policy was the encouragement of a class of liberal whites and blacks with absolutely first-class brains, but above everything else, loved their subject...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Ken Mufuka
British officials owe Zimbabwean people an apology, says Moss
A FORMER United States State Department official says the British government should consider apologising to Zimbabwean people for supporting a failed bid to back Harare's debt arrears plan which under...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:55hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
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