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Commonwealth leaders to defy UK on slavery reparations
Commonwealth heads of government are preparing to defy the United Kingdom and agree plans to examine reparatory justice for the transatlantic slave trade, the BBC has learned.Downing Street in...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:52hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo fumes over PVO Bill
OPPOSITION Zapu leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo has rapped the Zanu-PF government for pushing for the enactment of the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Bill that he described as retrogressively against...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 14:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth readmission a must for Zimbabwe
WE reported yesterday that Britain is pushing for Zimbabwe's readmission to the Commonwealth.President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been pushing for Zimbabwe's readmission to the club of nations und...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
Mr. Kennedy Chokuda Clerk of Parliament Parliament of Zimbabwe Dear Mr. Chokuda,We kindly request you deliver the attached letter from the Zimbabwe Diaspora Vote Initiative to ...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 21:36hrs | 14 | by Zimbabwe Diaspora Vote Initiative
Mnangagwa to engage creditors on Zimbabwe debt
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is set to travel to the United Arab Republic of Egypt, where he has been invited by his counterpart, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and will take advantage of the Africa Developme...Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reportetr
Mnangagwa engaged junior British officials
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa is meeting junior British government officials like Andrew Mitchell, minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, his Rwandan counterpart P...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe slips back to gukurahundi years
It is existentially draining and disempowering that the leader of Transform Zimbabwe Jacob Ngarivhume, has been shockingly convicted and sentenced for an effective three years in jail – for some twe...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 20:12hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe's Commonwealth bid still on course, claims Govt
FOREIGN Affairs deputy minister David Musabayana has said government is still locked in negotiations to re-join the Commonwealth group of nations.Zimbabwe was first suspended from the Commonwe...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Canada agonize readmitting Zanu PF into Commonwealth - trade democracy for ED's company, gold for fool's gold
"After allowing a wave of authoritarian regimes to become members in recent years, the Commonwealth and member states such as Canada are now pondering one of their toughest dilemmas: whether to approv...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 19:22hrs | 6 | by Wilbert Mukori
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 | 133 | by Jonathan Moyo
Baron Leong expects UK to hold free elections but it's 'too much and unfair' to ask same of Zimbabwe - how patronising
There are four tenets to rule of law: 1) The law must be simple, concise, relevant, and easily enforceable2) No one is above the law, especially those in positions of power and authori...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 19:25hrs | 10 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe's upcoming general elections test for Commonwealth readmission
The upcoming general elections in Zimbabwe should be a highlight of the country's willingness to re-join the Commonwealth but so far, nothing is pointing in that direction, according to Sonny Leong, a...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:23hrs | 1 | 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 | 3 | by Vusi Nyamazana
SA's Zimbabwe exemption permit scheme is a money racket and a ‘fraud'
The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) scheme is the "largest case of fraud and theft ever committed by the government of one country over nationals of its neighbouring country in African history", accor...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 07:02hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Stong Zimbabwe presence in Rwanda as Harare eyes Commonwealth re-admission
ZIMBABWE, which has applied to be readmitted into the Commonwealth, has a strong presence at the ongoing Commonwealth meeting in Kigali, Rwanda.Ministers, business leaders, students, and membe...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Will 11 SADC leaders ask Rwanda CHOGM 2022 to follow them and lower election standard to readmit Zimbabwe
Rwanda is hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2022 next week, 20 to 25 June 2022. President Mnangagwa has, no doubt, been lobbying hard for Zimbabwe to be re-admitted to the C...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:16hrs | 14 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Crisis at Bulawayo council clinics deepens
BULAWAYO residents are spending long hours at council clinics due to a shortage of nurses, a development that is compromising access to health services in the city.Council clinics and Governme...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 18:56hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, is Zimbabwe a sovereign state or a pariah, failed state?
What is sovereign about Zimbabwe whose government fails to give its people basics such as food securities for all, good education for all, basic health facilities, good all-weather roads, water & ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 11:48hrs | 14 | by Nomazulu Thata
Hadebe boost for Warriors
THE Warriors technical team yesterday received a major boost after United States-based star Teenage Hadebe managed to board his flight to Ghana for Zimbabwe's Group G World Cup qualifier against the B...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:05hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean designs 2022 Commonwealth Games Baton
UNITED Kingdom-based Zimbabwean artist Laura Nyahuye has designed a rare 2022 Commonwealth Games Baton that will carry the Queen Elizabeth II's message to athletes from the 72-member nations in a 269-...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri slams West for advancing regime change agenda
Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has criticised Western countries for advancing a regime change agenda through funding opposition aligned non-governmental organisatio...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 05:46hrs | 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
The most popular sport in the world
Sport is an important element of union between all peoples of the world. When you speak different languages, have different habits or when you are thousands of miles away from home, you just need to g...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 09:06hrs | 10 | by Staff Writer
'Mnangagwa our own Mbuya Nehanda,' says Chinamasa
ZANU-PF acting spokes-person Patrick China-masa yesterday took praise-singing to a new level, describing President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the country's own Mbuya Nehanda, an ancient ancestral spirit fr...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 07:30hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa turned down Mnangagwa offer?
Embattled opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has sensationally claimed that after rigging the 2018 presidential poll, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government dangled lucrative perks to hi...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Democracy and philanthropism in governance and five of Africa's most rare men in politics
Democracy is a system of governance in which the people choose their leaders by voting for them in elections. ... Philanthropy is free-giving of help or money to those in need. Governance is control o...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:34hrs | 5 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Zimbabwe's re-engagement bearing fruits
The United Kingdom is a critical cog in Zimbabwe's efforts to re-integrate into the community of nations following years of isolation in the First Republic. As the former colonial power, the United Ki...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lawyers blast £118 000 outlay on judges' wigs
LAWYERS have hit out at government's decision to spend thousands of pounds on wigs made in England for local judges, saying the tradition evokes a colonial past that should not exist in modern Zimbabw...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 16:17hrs | 10 | by The Guardian
Zimbabwe buys London wigs for judges
THE Judiciary Service Commission has placed orders for 64 wigs made of horsehair from the exclusive and expensive Stanley Ley Legal Outfitters in England, the Zimbabwe Independent has learnt.T...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:10hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
UK politicians urge lifting Zimbabwe ban
Ministers came under mounting pressure last night to reverse an "outrageous" ban on Zimbabwe from attending the Cenotaph to remember southern Rhodesians killed in the two world wars.More than ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 08:45hrs | 3 | by telegraph
UK army to recruit from Commonwealth
Foreign nationals living abroad will be allowed to join Britain's Armed Forces, the UK government is set to announce.Currently, citizens from Commonwealth countries can only join if they have ...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 12:27hrs | | by BBC
Mnangagwa's 'new' political project
The irony of Zimbabwean politics, today, is the variable that must change for matters to move forward is the one which new President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not prepared to change.What needs to ...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 13:07hrs | 1 | by Vivid Gwede
Mnangagwa will not follow Mugabe's ways
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he will chart a different path from that of his much-criticised predecessor - former leader Robert Mugabe - adding that he will only serve the two terms permitted by ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in colonial relics show
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's official opening of the 9th Parliament of Zimbabwe yesterday turned into a public display of colonial regalia and trinkets in scenes that would fit well at Westminster A...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe judges, generals and post-coup dynamics
Soon after the toppling of former president Robert Mugabe in November last year in a coup and the ascendancy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, High Court judge Charles Hungwe immediately ruled that the...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 14:50hrs | | by Andrew Kunambura
Commonwealth assigns Zimbabwe poll observer team
The Commonwealth has assigned a team to observe Zimbabwe's forthcoming elections. In May, President Mnangagwa wrote to Commonwealth secretary-general Patricia Scotland expressing interest, in pr...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 12:53hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Will Commonwealth welcome Zimbabwe - a repentant prodigal son or mamba that shed off it old coat, Robert Mugabe
After 15 years in the cold, Zimbabwe is applying to re-join the Commonwealth."Zimbabwe joined the Commonwealth on its independence in 1980 and withdrew from the organisation in 2003," reported The...Published: 22 May 2018 at 15:47hrs | 3 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe applies to re-joins Commonwealth
Zimbabwe has applied to re-join the Commonwealth, the organisation has revealed on Monday afternoon.The application addressed to Secretary-General Patricia Scotland by President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 21 May 2018 at 15:50hrs | | by Byo24News Reporter
Give one of Mugabe's 21 farms to Tswangirai family
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) applauds PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa for assigning Lands Minister Perence Shiri to identify a farm to give to the late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's family...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:26hrs | 3 | by Innocent Ndibali
Commonwealth to save Zimbabwe?
The Commonwealth is reported to have agreed to a rescue mission for Zimbabwe at its meeting in London this week during the visit by Zimbabwe's Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutena...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Statement of the EFF on the Occasion of the Zimbabwe Independence Day
The Economic Freedom Fighters is committed to the unfettered economic emancipation of all people of Zimbabwe view the occasion of the 2018 Independence Day as the dawn of a new era both within the pol...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by EFF Media Relations
WATCH: David Beckham launches 'Malaria Must Die'
LONDON - David Beckham today launched an ambitious new global malaria campaign, Malaria Must Die, So Millions Can Live calling upon leaders to "unite and fight" malaria. The campaign's first focus is ...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 07:20hrs | 8 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe, Commonwealth reunion beckons
THE country is on its way to rejoining the Commonwealth with President Mnangagwa yesterday saying there were no more impediments to Zimbabwe hooking up with the club of former British colonies....Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 05:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Long road for Zimbabwe - UK rapprochement
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government faces a herculean task to restore economic and political relations between Zimbabwe and its erstwhile coloniser, the United Kingdom.Trade relations be...Published: 07 Dec 2017 at 12:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe free to rejoin Commonwealth
The Commonwealth could consider restoring Zimbabwe's membership after the resignation of former president Robert Mugabe on Tuesday if the country holds free and fair elections and upholds human rights...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's deep love for all things colonial
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has not hidden his disdain for everything associated with Zimbabwe's erstwhile colonial master Britain, especially since the turn of the century when his administration embarke...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 08:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe judges evoke British colonialism
Zimbabwean judges recently filed into court for the official beginning of their 2017 duties, wearing long red robes and horsehair wigs, a throwback to an era of British colonial rule.Presi...Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 21:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a broken country - Joice Mujuru
Zimbabwe People First leader Joice Mujuru has said Zimbabwe is a broken country and 'our great nation is crying for transformation'."Zimbabwe is a broken country. We look to the government of ...Published: 01 Mar 2016 at 09:42hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Mugabe's loyalist produces new album, "Mupedzanhamo"
President Robert Mugabe's youthful loyalist Energy Mutodi has produced a new album titled 'Mupedzanhamo."One of Zimbabwe's most talented songwriter Energy 'Musorowembada' Mutodi and his Mutodi...Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 05:34hrs | 8 | by Stephen Jakes
'Zanu-PF must reform or perish'
ZIMBABWE'S political terrain has undergone significant transformation, but the more things change, the more they remain the same. The Financial Gazette's Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Dumisani Ndlela (DN), ...Published: 11 Jun 2015 at 08:49hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
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