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Call for reparations: A mere excuse by failed African leaders!
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) kicked off this week in Samoa, the topic of reparations for slavery and colonialism has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Sever...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 270 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Did we confuse generation Z?
ONE of our former lecturers reminded us that change is the only constant factor in our lives, whether we like it or not and whether it is good or not.It was not so much breaking news because e...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:16hrs | 134 | by Tapiwa Gomo
USA 'not running away' from Zimbabwe as suggested by Mnangagwa
The United States says it has not abandoned Zimbabwe contrary to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's remarks in Russia that America is currently strongly supporting Zambia and Malawi to spite Zimbabwe wher...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 06:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
UK ranked second-most miserable country in the world
The UK has been named the second-most unhappy country in the world in a survey conducted by Sapien Labs, a neuroscience foundation. According to the survey, Britons' mental health has plunged since th...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 19:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
United Kingdom considers closing temporary visa schemes for care workers
AMIDST a surge in migration to the United Kingdom, the government is contemplating the closure of temporary visa schemes for care workers. This move follows an appeal from the New Conservatives party,...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 04:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean-born director suspended over anti-Israel posts
Ofcom's online safety supervision director has been suspended after anti-Israel comments were posted on her Instagram account.Fadzai Madzingira's private account posted messages after the Hama...Published: 22 Oct 2023 at 14:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Britons now coming back, says Chiwenga
VICE-President Constantine Chiwenga has claimed that the re-engagement process undertaken by government is bearing fruits as several British companies have started investing in Zimbabwe.He mad...Published: 19 Aug 2023 at 16:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 9 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Triple C: Puny-wise, Pint Foolish!
Obdurate immaturityIT is not like Nelson Chamisa had not been warned, whether by living men or by past circumstances. Both did; yet he still hurtled headlong towards yet another blunder, which...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Jamwanda
Be patriotic, says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe will remain for Zimbabweans and outsiders intending to contribute towards developing the economy should do so without dictating the path for citizens, who have the rights to do that themselve...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:56hrs | | 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 | | 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
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 | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa a neo dictator and human rights abuser, says ex-British MP
FORMER senior British MP Kate Hoey has expressed displeasure after Tony Blair and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's picture in Rwanda went viral whilst labeling the Zimbabwean leader as a neo-dictator an...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe independence, freedom not for sale'
ZIMBABWE'S independence, freedom, democracy, sovereignty, patriotism, dignity and heritage are not for sale, President Mnangagwa has said.Addressing thousands of ruling Zanu-PF party supporter...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will never prosper as long as we have turned our politics into cults and idolatry!
A few days ago, as my wife and I were attending to some errands in the city centre, we visited a tailoring shop, whereby we were greeted by attire advertising the tailor's work. To say we were...Published: 11 Jul 2022 at 09:15hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Maybe Zimbabweans are okay with their suffering!
Tune in to any international news channel, and one encounters citizens of various nations around the world taking a firm stand against their pain and suffering endured as a result of unbearable econom...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:04hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
When the police officer is actually a thug
CRISES bring out the best or worst in people.Well, for Britain, the current fuel shortages have brought out the bad and nasty side of a people that we are told are supposedly more civilised th...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:10hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
UK deportees: Rapists, murderers leave trail of broken lives
Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom are divided on the deportations of their counterparts, mainly criminals living in that country who have served more than a year in prison. Many opposition group...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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 restricti...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 21:39hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Sanctions: The unfair comparison between Zimbabwe and Rhodesia
MANY Zimbabweans often bring up the comparison between Rhodesian and Zimbabwean sanctions to drive the narrative that Rhodesia had more stringent sanctions that they managed better than Zimbabwe is ma...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
No vaccination certificate, no drink at the pub
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested this week that some pubs might require customers to produce vaccine certificates, an idea that he had previously deemed unlikely. Almost 29 milli...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK Prime Minister imposes a total lockdown in England
Boris Johnson has announced a new national lockdown for England - with people instructed to "stay at home" as they did during last March's first shutdown.The prime minister revealed the action...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 20:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who Owns England?
Who Owns England? The question sounds oblique, when one considers the country's documented long history of "civilisation". One would think that, by now, this question should have long been settled. Ye...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:33hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
God doesn't carry a red political party card
God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, which simply means He is all-powerful, all-knowing and everywhere in that order.His sheer preponderance as a Supreme Being means He cannot be app...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
'Leadership is not about titles but it is inborn'
Naturally, the Britons have a great affinity for honours. This is due to various reasons. Some were hereditarily bestowed with titles such as knighthood, Lordship and were compelled to add a suffix af...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 21:34hrs | | by Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda
UK in Zimbabwe: From tragedy to farce
A poetic cliché by Karl Marx which claims that in the life of nations "history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce" does not only keep gaining new meanings for all countries but at ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 16:05hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
MDC Alliance holds Zimbabweans at ransom
In any democracy, every political party or any individual has the right to make checks and balances in as far as the implementation and non-implementation of reforms are concerned. Likewise, t...Published: 21 May 2018 at 09:23hrs | | by Bruce Zvandasara
Mnangagwa's hundred days a pie in the air
Hundred days which President Mnangagwa has promised to bring normalcy and total change in Zimbabwe has elapsed.What has been achieved so far? It seems as if nothing has changed. The President ...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 14:18hrs | 1 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Mnangagwa linked with 1982 tourists' murder
FORMER president Robert Mugabe's nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, has made a sensational claim about the 1982 murder of six western tourists in Matabeleland North, saying both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and ...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga in 1982 tourists' murder
FORMER president Robert Mugabe's nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, has made a sensational claim about the 1982 murder of six western tourists in Matabeleland North, saying both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and ...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 15:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Mthwakazi
Dear Mthwakazi, Angiqale ngokubingelela sizw'esinsundu, sizw'esimpisholo. Mthwakaz'omyama ondlelazimhlophe induku zibomvu. Mazinyan'eSilo uLobhengula wamaWaba kaMzilikazi kaMatshobana kaManget...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 16:03hrs | | by Collen Dube
How to spot a coup!
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has been detained by the country's military, who have seized control of the national broadcaster, ZBC.Soldiers and army vehicles are on the streets of the ca...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 08:00hrs | | by BBC
Zimbabwean jihadist who fights with Isis 'may still be alive'
UNITED Kingdom-based Zimbabwean man, Raymond Matimba, a jihadist, who fled Manchester for Syria has been identified as a key member of a clique of British fighters that include the notorious Islamic S...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 ceremo...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 17:10hrs | | by Mark Easton
UK sends deportation warnings by mistake
Britain's interior ministry sent deportation warnings to around 100 EU citizens by mistake, it emerged yesterday, an incident that campaigners said would increase fears among Europeans living in Brita...Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by AFP
Mugabe, Queen Elizabeth 'must sit down for tea'
The Zimbabwean minister for tourism has unveiled a blueprint for putting the country on the travel map, including a proposal that The Queen and Robert Mugabe should sit down for tea together...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 16:47hrs | | by Telegraph
Stateless Matebeles to be affected by ant-immigration policies in the world
After failing to get jobs in the Zimbabwe labour market where people are employed on the basis of their tribe, Matebeles would quietly sneak into South Africa, Botswana or any other country in the wor...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 11:13hrs | | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe: 2017 the Year of the Monster
It was a stern Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Minister of State Security, who looked at Ken Flower in the eye told him that Robert Mugabe, "the Prime Minister wishes you to know that the Commissioner of Poli...Published: 30 Dec 2016 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Zimbabwe led by gangsters since 1980
Mthwakazi Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has said Zimbabwe has been led by gangsters since 1980."After 36 years of Zimbabwean independence nothing has happened to better the lives of peop...Published: 28 Oct 2016 at 14:30hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Keep Cecil John Rhodes' grave - Minister Sandi Moyo
Provincial Affairs Minister for Bulawayo Sandi Moyo recently called for the preservation of the late former colonialist Cecil John Rhodes' grave in Matopos for...Published: 15 Jul 2016 at 05:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe: Not in a thousand years!
Let's start with a series of small, light-hearted but revealing anecdotes. Beitbridge. I am told there was quite some build-up of tension on both sides of the bridge, which means a build-up from South...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 12:01hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe not God's gift to Zimbabwe
As the country of Zimbabwe burns, the flames of which are so clear to see for everyone across the political divide, it is more that bewildering to find that the man presiding over such a disaster refu...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 07:35hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
UK out going Premier Cameron was reluctant on Zimbabwe- Zanu PF UK
ZANU PF United Kingdom chapter has said that the Britain Prime Minister Cameron who has indicated that he is resigning following the Britons' pull out from the European Union was the better leader com...Published: 28 Jun 2016 at 06:41hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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 o...Published: 25 Jun 2016 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Agencies
What Brexit means for Africa, Zimbabwe
"Fog in the channel - continent cut off." The Brookings Institution reminded us of this famous though apocryphal British headline in an analysis of Brexit this week. For Brookings, the headline epitom...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Peter Fabricius
The audacity of hope for Mthwakazi: Restoration Awakening Series: 1
Dr Mpiyseizwe Churchill GuduzaMLF Vice PresidentLondon, United Kingdom3 June, 2016I. IntroductionMy argument is three-fold. Firstly, that the major thesis of Shona intellec...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 14:52hrs | 1 | by Dr Mpiyseizwe Churchill Guduza
National pledge: The hallmark of patriotism
WHAT is clear is that most nations have national pledges of sorts.Whether these should be compulsory is another thing. Right now Zimbabwe is in a polarised State that to some, anything introdu...Published: 04 May 2016 at 07:05hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
'Tsvangirai has a penchant for ex-Rhodesians,' says Mnangagwa
ZANU-PF secretary for legal affairs Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans to jealously guard their national heritage in the face of moves by ex-Rhodesians to subvert the country by proxy.Mn...Published: 10 Feb 2016 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
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