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Zimbabweans jailed for human trafficking in Botswana
Three Zimbabweans and two Batswana have been sentenced to two years in prison each after being convicted of human trafficking in Botswana. The group was arrested in Tonota while transporting 10 undocu...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 07:58hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Mass deportation still Gayton McKenzie party's top priority
The Patriotic Alliance (PA) is not backing down on the call for mass deportation of illegal immigrants, despite them being featured in the Government of National Unity (GNU).The PA’s deputy ...Published: 12 Jul 2024 at 09:25hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Armed SA man arrested while transporting 23 undocumented Ethiopians from Zimbabwe
Police at Sebayeng in Limpopo have arrested 25 undocumented foreign nationals for contravention of the Immigration Act.The group of men, aged between 20 and 44 years, were arrested at Solomond...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:59hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Why Dudula hates foreigners
South African vigilante group Operation Dudula has become notorious for raiding businesses belonging to foreign nationals and forcing shops to close. BBC Africa Eye has gained rare access to members o...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 21:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Human trafficking Zimbabwe cop faces probe
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has launched an internal investigation against a Chirundu-based officer who is facing a charge of human trafficking, NewsDay has gathered.Paul Chaza was recently g...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mass deportation' of illegal immigrants from South Africa opposed
The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) has launched an urgent application against Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and his department in the High Court to stop the "mass deportation" of illegal im...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 20:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's top cop in human trafficking storm
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched an investigation into one of its senior officers based in Chirundu who is accused of human trafficking.The suspect was arrested at Mashala Farm ...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 06:59hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
27 men believed to be migrants found dead along road in Zambia
Twenty-seven bodies, believed to be of Ethiopians or Somalis, have been found dumped along a road in the Meanwood Khosi Area in Lusaka, Zambia, after apparently suffocating in a container used by huma...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 00:49hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe a pariah state that can't even be trusted by fellow African countries!
Can African countries genuinely trust the rogue Zimbabwe regime?In fact, should African nations be so foolhardy and naive as to place their trust in a proven pariah state as Zimbabwe?W...Published: 17 May 2022 at 16:41hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
3 Ethiopians die in Beitbridge minibus accident
THREE Ethiopian nationals reportedly died on the spot while several others were injured when a minibus they were travelling in rammed into the railings of a bridge and burst into flames just 10km alon...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
A chain is as strong as its weakest link
The Bishop's heart always bleeds each time he thinks about Ethiopia, the land of brave men and women who valiantly frustrated Italy's imperial designs in the 20th century, making it difficult for colo...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:08hrs | 10 | by Bishop Lazarus
Zifa dangle US$64 000 winning bonus
ZIFA have dangled a US$64 000 winning bonus for the Warriors to inspire them to win the 2022 World Cup Group G qualifier against Ethiopia, at the Bahir Dar International Stadium, this afternoon. ...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
101 Amazing Facts About the Life and works of Emperor Haile Selassie
On the occasion of the 129th birthday of the Emperor, I have selected one out of 101 extraordinary achievements he accomplished during his reign: from Ras Tafari- Emperor Haile Selassie. The May 5th V...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 14:21hrs | 11 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza originally written by Mulugeta Haile
Human trafficker nabbed with 5 Ethopians
Kanyemba based human trafficker Edmore Teguru (34) was arrested last week for human trafficking.Sources familiar with the incident told Bulawayo24.com that Teguru received five Ethiopians from...Published: 31 May 2021 at 13:40hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole in Kanyemba
Robbers raid lodge, make off with US$11,000
ARMED robbers stormed a Bulawayo lodge last Wednesday night and made off with cash and property worth US$11 630, including US$9 050 belonging to an Ethiopian gold dealer.The Ethiopian and a co...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic tensions surge in South Africa
As the coronavirus outbreak has slammed the South African economy and pushed unemployment to a 17-year high, it's awakened a recurrent social demon: xenophobia.Anti-immigrant groups have stage...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 18:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rats cannot think beyond peanuts
AROUND this time in 2018, witty cynics, the majority of whom have happily found a convenient playground on social media platforms, were whining and whingeing that shortages of Coca-Cola which is a gen...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:47hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Nigeria summons South Africa ambassador over 'anarchy'
Nigeria's government has summoned South Africa's high commissioner over the looting in Johannesburg.It alleges that Nigerian-owned businesses have been targeted in the South African city, sayi...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 13:52hrs | 1 | by BBC
African governments issue warnings about South Africa violence
Following the outbreak of violence in South Africa, which has seen some foreign-owned businesses targeted, a number of other African countries have expressed their concern and issued warnings....Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 13:50hrs | | by BBC
A Letter to Zimbabwe National Army Officers
DEAR ZIMBABWE NATIONAL ARMY (ZNA) OFFICERS, WE, YOUR FAMILIES, ARE SUFFERING I write to you as an ordinary Zimbabwean civilian. But I am not just an ordinary civilian. I write to you as ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 21:04hrs | 26 | by Poverty-Stricken Zimbabwean
Zimbabwe Embassy in SA monitors Johannesburg situation
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa is monitoring the situation in Gauteng province mainly Johannesburg where police in that country have been rounding up foreign immigrants in the wake of recent c...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
A second President is possible for Zimbabwe to save the little left
The citizens may have lost out on many resources (mining) but remember we can still support anyone we want to turn our fortunes around. We need to have one we anoint as an economic leader, one we ...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 09:07hrs | | by Justice Maphosa
Ethiopia's army chief general shot dead in attempted coup
Ethiopian army Chief of Staff, General Seare Mekonnen, has been shot dead in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on state TV that General Mekonnen was shot trying...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Sacked UK Minister reflects inherent imperial hangovers
Speaking on 16 February 2001 on the need for European Unity, then President of the European Commission, Romani Prodi exclusively told Britain's The Guardian newspaper something that anyone interested ...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Ranga Mataire
Mnangagwa mourns Addis crash victims
President Mnangagwa yesterday joined the world in mourning the death of 157 passengers of an Ethiopian Airlines flight which crashed six minutes after take-off in Addis Ababa. Ethiopian Airlines' Flig...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and his love for expensive jets
At a time when Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is implementing austerity measures that have only brought more suffering to ordinary Zimbabweans, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is behaving as if he is from...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:45hrs | | by Benjamin Manzini
Ethiopian Airlines executives confront Mnangagwa
Ethiopian Airlines executives have demanded US$18 million stuck in Zimbabwe during a meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Mnangagwa met Ethiopian Airlines CEO Ethiopian Airlines Group Chi...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 19:06hrs | | by ZimLive
Ethiopia taps into Zec system
A FOUR-MEMBER team from the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) is in the country taking notes from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) as they move to transform their own election managem...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 07:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans safe in midst of South Africa looting frenzy'
ZIMBABWEANS living in South Africa are safe following a spate of attacks and looting of foreign owned shops by locals in the neighbouring country this week, a senior official has said.In an in...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans 'safe' in SA looting frenzy
ZIMBABWEANS living in South Africa are safe following a spate of attacks and looting of foreign owned shops by locals in the neighbouring country this week, a senior official has said.In an in...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans and other foreigners flee deadly attacks in Soweto, South Africa
Immigrants have fled South Africa's main township, Soweto, following xenophobic attacks which killed three people on Wednesday, the BBC's Nomsa Maseko reports from Johannesburg.Violence broke ...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 11:53hrs | 10 | by BBC
0 arrests over Mnangagwa grande, 30 over Ethiopia attack
The number of officials detained in connection with Saturday's bomb attack in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa has reached about 30, state TV reported. Addis Standard late yesterday wrote wr...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA-based patriots have lofty economic ambitions for Zimbabwe
IN December last year, a month after taking over the reins from longtime leader Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa visited South Africa to woo investors.After meeting Zimba...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 16:43hrs | | by CAJ News
'Zimbabwe economy poised for fast growth'
Zimbabwe is poised to be among the fastest growing economies in Africa in the next 10 years if the people remain united, visiting Chinese vice chairman of China-Africa Business Council, Mr HuaRong Zha...Published: 02 May 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bid to block Beitpridge border hits brick wall
A BID to block the Zimbabwe and South Africa border at Beitbridge by the International Cross-border Traders' Association (ICTA) yesterday hit a brick wall after their request to protest inside the bor...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa to protect Mengistu
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration ha no plans extradite former Ethiopian dictator, Mengistu Haile Mariam.This is in spite of renewed pressure from the opposition and the civil soci...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Campaign to extradite Ethiopia's dictator Mengistu from Zimbabwe
In a move that stunned the world, Zimbabwe's defense forces ousted President Robert Mugabe from power on November 21 2017, bringing his 37 years of strongman rule to an end. When his successor, ...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 07:31hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
The fall of the Zimbabwe dictator is gathering speed
A soft political coup led by G40 has taken place in Zimbabwe. The dictatorship of Robert Mugabe and his patronage political machine linked to the liberation struggle is now crumbling at a fast pace dr...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 08:15hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
The Ncube Clan: a Tale of Kalanga Origins
THE REBIRTH OF BUKALANGA: A GREAT NATION Since the publication of my book, The Rebirth of BuKalanga, a lot of interest has been generated in Kalanga ide...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 17:15hrs | 607 | by Ndzimu-Unami Emmanuel Moyo
South Africa xenophobia fears mount
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa has urged Zimbabweans to be on high alert and avoid moving at night as xenophobic violence continues to escalate in the neighbouring country.Reports yest...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ethiopian Airlines to launch Victoria Falls direct flights
Ethiopian Airlines will commence direct flights to Victoria Falls by March, following the commissioning of the state-of-the-art Victoria Falls International Airport which can now handle wide-bodie...Published: 23 Jan 2017 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt targets informal sector on tax
Financially troubled government of Zimbabwe is itching to tax the informal sector to raise revenue base.Thousands of people have been retrenched from the formal sector in the process reducing ...Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 07:36hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
African Trade Insurance Agency officially open for business in Zimbabwe
NAIROBI - At a press conference, the CEO of the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) (www.ATI-aca.org), George Otieno, along with H.E. Dina Mufti, the Ethiopian Ambassador and Gabriel Negatu, Regional...Published: 19 Oct 2016 at 11:08hrs | | by APO
Africa: It is the darkness now!
I have no difficulties with insults heaped upon our ancestors by the white world, both before and after colonisation. Much of it arose from overweening Victorian pride and racism anyway, a lot more fr...Published: 13 Aug 2016 at 08:47hrs | 39 | by Nathaniel Manheru
'We shall extradite President Mengstu Haile Mariam'
Developments which are taking place in Zimbabwe are all pointing to the fact that Robert Mugabe's days at Munhumutapa building are now numbered and as a result all hell is about to break loose o...Published: 06 Aug 2016 at 08:17hrs | | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo, Snr
Protestors go wild in Beitbridge
PROPERTY worth thousands of dollars went up in smoke in Beitbridge yesterday when a mob burnt down a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) warehouse in protest against the implementation of Statutory Ins...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 12:05hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya and Mashudu Netsianda
Musina has been the hardest hit by the new import regulations
South Africa's northern town of Musina has been the hardest hit by the new import regulations that remove the shipping of listed basic commodities into the country under the Open General Import Licenc...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 12:03hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
The fate of the Zimbabweans in Kuwait
The predicament of some Zimbabwean women who are reportedly stranded in Kuwait is a very unfortunate result of this country's sanctions-induced poor socio – economic condition.They are said ...Published: 25 May 2016 at 07:16hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
2 fined for smuggling Ethiopians
TWO men who assisted 13 Ethiopian migrants to illegally enter the country were yesterday each fined $250 or 50 days in prison.The Ethiopians were arrested in Filabusi on Tuesday.They c...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 05:36hrs | | by Richard Muponde
Zimbabwean soldiers intercept 23 Ethiopian illegals
TWENTY-THREE illegal Ethiopian immigrants are facing deportation.Soldiers stumbled on the immigrants sleeping in a bush near an army camp in Redcliff.Mulumen Mentose Kelbore, 35, and 2...Published: 03 Mar 2016 at 05:25hrs | | by Elizabeth Tsuro
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