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Zimbabwean youths flee in droves
According to a recent report, Zimbabwean youths constitute the largest group of people leaving the country in significant numbers following the general elections on August 23. Many of them are choosin...Published: 21 Oct 2023 at 18:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe worker exodus intensifies
Years of mass emigration from Zimbabwe have accelerated due to the ongoing economic crisis, further depleting the country of essential skills needed for a turnaround. Recent census data from South Afr...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
'The Rock' surprises Zimbabwe's UFC fighter Gorimbo
DWAYNE ‘The Rock' Johnson took time from his wild schedule to surprise UFC fighter Themba Gorimbo at his MMA gym in south Florida.Gorimbo made his UFC debut earlier this year, falling short ...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 07:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ireland continues recruiting nurses from Zimbabwe
THE HSE continued to recruit nurses from Zimbabwe, Ghana and Nigeria for over a month after they were added to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) no-recruit list.The WHO keeps a list of cou...Published: 07 May 2023 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe brain drain cause for concern
LATEST data from the United Kingdom (UK)'s Office of National Statistics tells us that for many years there has been a massive exodus from Zimbabwe of professionals headed for the UK.We hear t...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans jam UK work visa applications
ZIMBABWE is among top five countries that registered the highest number of citizens granted work visas to the United Kingdom (UK) in the past two years, latest statistics by the UK's Office of Nationa...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurses barred from leaving Zimbabwe
With a salary worth the equivalent of less than $100 a month, Agnes Masarira can't afford to buy lunch at the hospital in Zimbabwe where she works as a nurse. She dreams of a nursing job in Canada, bu...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe public health collapse
The cries of doctors at Zimbabwe's largest public hospital appear to have fallen on deaf ears and an increasing number of health professionals are emigrating, resulting in a dearth of cancer treatment...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:59hrs | 2 | 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
Zimbabwe healthcare bleeds amid mass nurse exodus
Virginia Mutsamwira says she treats four times the number of patients she should ideally handle at a township clinic in Harare."It's tiring - the nurse-patient ratio is really bad," she says, ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabweans can bring a parent or grandparent when emigrating to the UK
While a number of emigration options exist for working Zimbabweans, moving to the UK can be complicated - especially when leaving an elderly loved one behind.This is an understandable concern ...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 12:02hrs | | by Staff Writer
Déjà vu as Zimbabwe's 2008 ghost returns
The year 2008 was the zenith of shortages of basic commodities. Hyperinflation reached levels that had only been seen during Europe's Great Depression. After a decade of hyperinflation, Zimbabwe learn...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 18:15hrs | | by Linda Masarira
Mbeki provokes the ire of Zimbabwean opposition
Former president Thabo Mbeki has provoked the ire of Zimbabwean opposition parties after he claimed that the British regime change policy on Zimbabwe was not for the benefit of the local majority but ...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former SA president defends stance on Zimbabwe
FORMER South Africa President Thabo Mbeki has said the British policy of seeking illegal regime change in Zimbabwe is not for the benefit of the local majority but to serve the interests of the former...Published: 15 Jul 2017 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Why do we cheat, How do we stop these killings?
The last two decades have seen a chronology of unplanned events forcing Zimbabweans to migrate around the world. Forced by economic and political turmoil to embark on journeys that they knew to be lif...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 00:44hrs | 1 | by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda
Zimbabwe rot spirals as Chef's fight
Economists and leading opposition figures say Zimbabwe is heading for a disaster if Zanu-PF remains fixated on its seemingly unstoppable tribal factional and succession wars and the country's econ...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe inadvertently providing slave labour to other countries
Zimbabwe President Robert Gabriel Mugabe's rabid economic policies - which have led to the untold suffering of millions of Zimbabweans - as well as, a very repressive political landscape, have forced ...Published: 25 Aug 2016 at 10:31hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How come our government doesn't get this?
There is no need to be a Nobel Prize economist to decipher that the economic pains ghost of 2008 is reincarnating at alarming speed. It equally doesn't need a prophetic calling to decipher that we...Published: 29 May 2016 at 19:29hrs | | by Brian Sedze
Chinamasa's budget a damp squib
The MDC is gravely concerned that the 2016 national budget has not put in place a substantive programme to resuscitate the ailing economy.The poor budget statement does not indicate the willin...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 15:54hrs | | by Webber Chinyadza
Keep them in your England, Mugabe tells Britain
President Robert Mugabe has challenged the British government on why it is now asking the Zimbabwean government to help it send back thousands of Zimbabweans who fled the country to seek refuge i...Published: 18 Jul 2014 at 01:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Liquor and Food outlets the only investments for Gwanda
Staff ReporterThe small mining town of Gwanda seems to be only attracting investments into beer drinking spots and food outlets.The town meant to be the Provincial Capital of Mateb...Published: 26 Dec 2013 at 11:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Top 10 ways to beat the post-Christmas blues
Stay happy after ChristmasThe post-Christmas period can leave many of us feeling down. Back to work blues, an empty social calendar, festive weight ...Published: 03 Jan 2013 at 05:58hrs | | by realbuzz.com
Zimbabwe's tourism revival lies in Victoria Falls paradise
The poster on the wall had an evocative black and white photograph of a man driving a locomotive. "Zimbabwe", it said, "Africa's paradise". Handing over an American $20 bill to the ticket seller, I as...Published: 20 Jan 2012 at 14:11hrs | | by David Smith
Eliminating Corruption and Autocracy: Towards Effective Institutional Engineering
There is very little known about the aims, objectives, functions and limitations of the Government of National Unity apart from the obvious facts that, it is having hic ups and disunity. In order to u...Published: 05 Jun 2011 at 14:53hrs | 1 | by Farai Chikowore
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