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UK opposes Zimbabwe's readmission to club of British colonies
Zimbabwe's efforts to be readmitted to the Commonwealth have encountered a significant obstacle, as the United Kingdom's Labour government has indicated it will not support the move due to ongoing con...Published: 01 Dec 2024 at 12:20hrs | 1265 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Commonwealth possible readmission queried
Zimbabwe's bid for readmission to the Commonwealth has raised concerns about the bloc's credibility as a champion of democracy and justice, with critics arguing that the country's human rights record ...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 07:12hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets Commonwealth leaders support in bid to rejoin bloc
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's efforts to get Zimbabwe back into the Commonwealth are being backed by the grouping's secretary general, Patricia Scotland, who believes he has done enough to warrant a ...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:38hrs | 620 | 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 fo...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 16:19hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
'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 Gove...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 10:51hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF grovels to Canada for backing in bid for Commonwealth readmission
The ruling Zanu-PF party has reached out to Canada for assistance in its efforts to end its pariah status and rejoin the Commonwealth, a move that dates back to Zimbabwe's withdrawal from the group in...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 08:07hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora calls for Zimbabwe to rejoin the club of ex-British colonies
Douglas Mwonzora, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance, has called for Zimbabwe to rejoin the Commonwealth of Nations to promote economic prosperity. Speaking in Bulawayo, Mwo...Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 10:53hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Commonwealth return imminent?
ZIMBABWE is poised for a historic return to the Commonwealth early next year, before the group convenes its biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), scheduled for October in Samoa....Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to rejoin Commonwealth in 2024
In a pivotal development underscoring President Mnangagwa's diplomatic doctrine of engagement and re-engagement, Zimbabwe stands on the brink of a historic return to the Commonwealth in early 2024. Th...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:25hrs | 55 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Colonial master calls for re-evaluation of Zimbabwe's Commonwealth readmission bid
ZIMBABWE'S disputed elections will likely throw spanners in the country's efforts to re-join the Commonwealth with the United Kingdom House of Lords calling for its bid to be iced.Zimbabwe hel...Published: 07 Sep 2023 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora should plan for post-Zanu-PF era
LAST week Wednesday was yet another heart-breaking day for me as I made my way through Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport to catch my flight.Many people, who came to greet me at the a...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
British House of Lords members says Mnangagwa is worse than Mugabe
British House of Lords members, who are life peers, including vocal former Labour Vauxhall MP for 30 years Baroness Kate Hoey, have gravely condemned exacerbating authoritarian political repression in...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 18:40hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa breaks 23-year diplomatic stand-off with UK?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa's engagement and re-engagement drive has broken a 23-year-old diplomatic stand-off between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom, a development that bodes well for bilateral relations an...Published: 10 May 2023 at 05:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Charamba says Zimbabwe on the verge of re-joining Commonwealth
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba weekend said Zimbabwe was on the verge of re-joining the Commonwealth after the pariah state has been putting a painstaking effort to charm the United Kingdom...Published: 09 May 2023 at 19:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth maintains tough stance on Zimbabwe
THE Commonwealth has reportedly told Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa to implement a raft of reforms for the Southern African country to be readmitted back into the league.Mnangagwa, wh...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes early returns from the UK
ZIMBABWE is edging closer to rejoining the Commonwealth as the bloc warms up to the Second Republic's re-engagement and engagement drive with President Mnangagwa using his visit to the United Kingdom ...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide domination
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide dominationAn African PerspectivePart 1South Africa will host the 15th BRICS Summit from 22nd-24th August 2023, with the theme;...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 18:50hrs | 6 | by Ian Beddowes
Zimbabwe makes Commonwealth inroads?
ZIMBABWE continues to make headway in its quest to rejoin the Commonwealth after a Cabinet minister was invited to attend the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisations Ministerial Alliance for Dig...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth has appalling human rights record
This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 51 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 81 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
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 | 3 | 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 | 2 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth readmission will not solve Zimbabwe's problems
IT looks very likely that in the near future Zimbabwe will be readmitted into the Commonwealth, the grouping of former British colonies, boosting President Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-engagement efforts a...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foreign-funded NGOs give conditional backing for Zimbabwe's Commonwealth bid
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (ZHRNGO Forum), a union of 22 rights organisations whose relationship with government have been shaky for over a decade, has expressed its support for re-admission ...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe has made very impressive progress' says Commonwealth team
Zimbabwe has made "very impressive" progress in meeting conditions to re-join the Commonwealth, a top official of the group of 56 mainly former British colonies said after an assessment mission, even ...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti says state repression, corruption worse after Mugabe coup
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy president Tendai Biti says the November 2017 military coup that installed incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa in place of late former leader Robert ...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Commonwealth readmission uncertain
ZIMBABWE'S bid to rejoin the Commonwealth will not be a stroll in the park, NewsDay has heard.The visiting Commonwealth team will assess the country's eligibility using a template which includ...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter§
Mnangagwa still isolated after 47 global trips
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has travelled 47 foreign trips since coming to power, in a re-engagement drive that has been bogged down by human rights abuses and failure to implement key political refo...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe joins strategic Commonwealth trade body
Zimbabwe's re-engagement efforts spearheaded by President Mnangagwa continue to bear fruit with the national trade promotion agency, ZimTrade, joining the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Counci...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 05:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice sets up committee to debate continued use of 'outdated' colonial hairpiece
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has set up a Judicial Wigs Committee (JWC) to investigate whether the hairpiece, worn at official functions by judges of higher courts, is still necessary.Announced b...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
The dangers of a long colonialism
Walking the last mileBY the time you read this piece, Queen Elizabeth II, late sovereign of the United Kingdom and titular head of the pizza-like Commonwealth, will be two days away from her f...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Jamwanda
Why I boycotted Queen Elizabeth II
I WAS a Lower Sixth student at Prince Edward School in Harare, Zimbabwe, when Queen Elizabeth II visited our school in October 1991. Zimbabwe was hosting that year's Commonwealth Heads of Government M...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:07hrs | 4 | by Tafi Mhaka
Western countries block Zimbabwe's readmission into Commonwealth?
Zimbabwe has accused western countries of blocking its bid to rejoin the Commonwealth bloc.The late former President Mugabe pulled the country out of the Commonwealth in 2003 after he was crit...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 14:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's readmission into club of former territories of the British Empire hinges on reforms'
HUMAN rights activists have urged government to implement political and governance reforms if it hopes to be readmitted into the Commonwealth group of nations.Last week, Zimbabwe failed to be ...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe registerd NGO tells Commonwealth, 'Zimbabwe not yet ready to rejoin'
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (ZHRNGO Forum) has cited Zimbabwe's poor rights record as an indication the country is not yet ready to rejoin the Commonwealth following its unsuccessful appli...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Commonwealth readmisison 'not priority right now'
Re-joining the Commonwealth is not Zimbabwe's priority right now, a spokesman for President Emmerson Mnangagwa said.Zimbabwe had been expected to apply for readmission into the club of former ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 09:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Commonwealth re-admission at crossroads
A REPORT produced by the Commonwealth after observing Zimbabwe's 2018 elections will potentially scupper the country's desperate bid to rejoin the group, four years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:58hrs | 12 | 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
UK minister says Zimbabwe not ready for Commonwealth re-admission
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's much vaunted re-engagement policy has once again been given a slap in the face, with the British parliament hearing that Zimbabwe is not yet at a level where it could be...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
World Bank and the IMF have remained largely colonial in character to this day
Most people assume that inequality between the global South and the global North (the United States, Western Europe, Japan, Canada and Australia) has been declining over the past few decades. After al...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 07:43hrs | 15 | by Professor Jason Hickel
EU snubbed Mnangagwa at Brussels summit
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was snubbed by top European Union diplomats at last week's EU-Africa Summit while regional counterparts secured critical meetings, pouring cold water on government claims ...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 19:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa administration elbows out British investor under a cloud
The Zimbabwean government has - under unclear circumstances - frozen a multi-million diamond deal involving a London-listed British company, Vast Resources Plc, as the post-coup administration increas...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:09hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
UK PM snubs Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWE'S pariah status continues following reports British Prime Minister Boris Johnson consulted Southern African presidents, except President Emmerson Mnangagwa, before the latest travel restricti...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:46hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
House of Lords reprimand leaves Mnangagwa propaganda in tatters
LAST week's heated British House of Lords debate on Zimbabwe in which parliamentarians and a government minister said the southern African country should not be readmitted into the Commonwealth until ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Glasgow trip a missed opportunity
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to Glasgow, Scotland, was a missed opportunity for Zimbabwe to meaningfully engage world leaders on climate matters, but instead he reduced the all-important summi...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:58hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Peter Ndlovu party champions Zimbabwe re-engagement efforts
SOCCER legend Peter Ndlovu's opposition All Peoples Party (APP) has petitioned Queen Elizabeth II to allow for Zimbabwe's readmission into the Commonwealth club.APP acting president Sabastian ...Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to intensify Commonwealth readmission efforts
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it would re-intensify re-engagement efforts with the Commonwealth in order to ensure its readmission to the group of former British colonies.This was revealed by acti...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Colonialist UK pushes to further isolate the Mnangagwa government
THE United Kingdom's unexpected move this week to impose sanctions on four Zimbabwean security chiefs for human rights violations - following a series of critical pronouncements in recent months - sig...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
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