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ZANU never fought against the British - lets not distort history

When we distort the past, it ceases to be history and becomes propaganda.In Zimbabwean politics, the manipulation of history is as common as the empty promises made during election campaigns. To directly receive articles from Tendai R…

Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 22:46hrs | 1009 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

British investor bid to seize 450 cattle flops

British investor Boustead Beef has lost its High Court bid to claim 420 head of cattle or the equivalent of US$193,660 from Triangle Limited as compensation for leasing properties belonging to the Cold Storage Commission (CSC) in Mwenezi, …

Published: 22 Dec 2024 at 11:11hrs | 1203 | by Staff reporter

British Govt shows the world how to deal with rioters

It's, unfortunately, depressingly familiar. Violence has broken out in the United Kingdom led by loosely organised thugs driven by fake news and hate speech on social media that was made acceptable by legal, if unpleasant political speech,…

Published: 08 Aug 2024 at 07:46hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter

UK-based Zimbabweans to petition British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

A group of Zimbabweans based in the United Kingdom (UK) will this Sunday hand over a petition to Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak to put pressure on the Zimbabwean government to end the murder, abduction and torture of opposition activists.Orga…

Published: 10 Dec 2023 at 18:05hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's new British bowling coach ready for battle

ZIMBABWE'S new bowling coach Steve Kirby seems to read from the same book as head coach Dave Houghton as the Englishman appears to have settled quickly in his role in the national cricket team that is currently in Australia for the ICC Men…

Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe flies British fighter jets again despite sanctions

Zimbabwe's Air Force has mysteriously found parts for its grounded Hawk fighter jets - 21 years after Britain imposed a crippling arms embargo.Four BAE Hawk jets took part in a fly-past during the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulaw…

Published: 01 May 2022 at 19:36hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter

Chinese worse colonizers than the British, as savagely exploiting our country out of existence

I am a ZISCOSTEEL product. Born and bred in the iron and steel making small town of Redcliff.As with most towns and cities in Zimbabwe - Redcliff was built entirely by companies that opened their operations in the country during colonial R…

Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 22 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

British spaceports under development

Two new British spaceports could be the catalyst to making Britain Europe's newest space superpower. If they can overcome planning challenges, the value to the UK's economy could be hard to measure.With a world-class record in contribution…

Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 20:37hrs | 203 | by Staff writer

Whites score big against blacks - land compensation

Land is and was at the centre of all political developments for the indigenous black Zimbabwean population's pre and post independence movements. The liberation war against white minority rule's black political formations were all created …

Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 15:37hrs | 7 | by Terence Simbi

The British Conservative party is behind the suffering of Mthwakazi

It may be surprising that the said to be architectures of Democracy are fully behind the suffering endured by Mthwakazi citizens, but that is the truth. The British Conservative Party has been behind the suffering of our people since the C…

Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:39hrs | 2 | by David Magagula

Blow for Warriors

Warriors coach Sunday Chidzambga's hopes of using some of the England-born Zimbabwean players for the decisive Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier against Congo Brazzaville could have suffered a major blow after it emerged this week th…

Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:13hrs | 1441 | by Staff reporter

UK want 'serious dialogue' with ED on debt but not vote rigging - history repeating itself

The British are not helping Zimbabwe get out of the economic and political mess the country is in. Not at all!"Ambassador Catriona Laing said an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme would help Britain's former colony expedite the cl…

Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:36hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu

Mnangagwa meet his British business partner

BRITISH Labour Party politician and former Cabinet member Lord Peter Hain has hailed President Mnangagwa's re-engagement with the international community, commitment to good governance and credible elections under the new political dispens…

Published: 31 May 2018 at 06:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

The British could be wrong on Zimbabwe once again

In early 2017, a colleague, Everson Mushava, stumbled upon a story about British involvement in Zanu-PF factionalism and that the United Kingdom had a dog in the fight.At the centre of it all was the British ambassador to Zimbabwe, Catrion…

Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:13hrs | 2688 | by Nqaba Matshazi

Why don't many British tourists visit Victoria Falls?

In August 1934, a memorial statue to one of Britain's greatest national heroes, David Livingstone, was unveiled alongside his beloved Victoria Falls.A thousand people attended the grand ceremony, including British government dignitaries an…

Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 17:10hrs | 2 | by Mark Easton

The truth about atrocities of British colonisation

MY previous two articles have concentrated on the period of the Bush War or the Second Chimurenga, mainly because this period covers my own time growing up in Rhodesia.In this article I focus on the period of the First Chimurenga and compa…

Published: 10 Aug 2017 at 06:54hrs | 4 | by Simon Massey

British 'excessively defensive' on atrocities in Matabeleland

THIS is the fifth 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: 02 Jun 2017 at 07:09hrs | | by Hazel Cameron, British academic

Pseudo-Reformists: When Beasts of England Roar

A cryptic but interesting response to my piece last week came from one "yowe" who advised me to read George Orwell's classic, Animal Farm. I can only surmise that "yowe" is unaware that literature, English literature especially, is my fort…

Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:05hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Mujuru's impending trip to Chatham House where she hopes to impress her British benefactors

THE Tongas have a good saying: Hearts are not far from concord when noses have already fraternised. Let me open my gonamombe, pull out the lid of the cow-horn canister, so you the reader and me, can share the snuff by which we summon our a…

Published: 17 Sep 2016 at 12:29hrs | 8 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Chevening Scholarships open

The Chevening Secretariat is accepting applications for 2017/2018 Chevening Scholarships on the Chevening Website from 8 August until 8 November 2016.Chevening Scholarships are awarded to individuals with demonstrable leadership potential …

Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 15:35hrs | 1534 | by British High Commission Pretoria

British colonial welfare mentality to Zimbabwe must stop

I thoroughly detest any insinuation by those that come from the West that we in Zimbabwe are a helpless society only in continual need of their largesse and that they have the "solutions" to our problems. That is utter nonsense and we must…

Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 11:12hrs | 673 | by Vince Musewe

British vote to 'LEAVE' the EU was wise because EU is a dysfunctional union

For the record, the British vote to leave the EU was a wise decision for the British people and for the rest of the world including developing countries like Zimbabwe and even the rest of the EU. Why?You have heard a multitude of reasons b…

Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 23:16hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori

British MP shot dead

An MP has died after she was shot and stabbed during an attack in her constituency, police have said.Jo Cox, 41, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was left bleeding on the ground by her attacker. A 77-year-old man also suffered slight injurie…

Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 17:46hrs | 1 | by BBC

Zulu king wants British royals to pay up for destroying Zulu palace in 1879

King Goodwill Zwelithini wants the British royal family to pay the Zulu kingdom for destroying his great-grandfather's palace in 1879, a News24 report said on Wednesday.Zwelithini said he didn't harbour any animosity towards the "English e…

Published: 24 Jun 2015 at 11:16hrs | | by Staff reporter

The British are coming to kneel before us, Cdes

Dear Cabinet andPolitburo membersCOMRADES, read this: "A delegation from United Kingdom will visit Zimbabwe next (this) week to help the country implement the economic blueprint, the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transform…

Published: 31 Oct 2014 at 07:04hrs | 3 | by cznotebook

Of Shona and British Colonialism

Of Shona Colonialism, British Colonialism and the Need to Defeat BothThe 20th century history of Africa is a history characterized by massive European Colonialism. Europe, then made up of the world's leading powers, sat at the Berlin Confe…

Published: 08 Sep 2014 at 11:50hrs | 4 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo

British tour operators starting to feature Zim in their brochures

British tour operators are starting to feature Zimbabwe in their brochures again. Graham Boynton, who grew up in Bulawayo, considers whether it is right for tourists to return. Within hours of landing in Zimbabwe I found myself standing ro…

Published: 11 Jul 2012 at 06:41hrs | 1419 | by Graham Boynton

Bloody British Agents thwarted Zimbabwe arms ship

MI6 launched operation to stop Chinese weapons from reaching Mugabe after disputed 2008 electionsBritain's foreign secret intelligence service (MI6) prevented China from delivering arms and ammunition to Zimbabwe in the aftermath of the ho…

Published: 25 Jan 2011 at 02:11hrs | 10 | by Byo24NEWS

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