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Affordable apartment options in Dubai for Zimbabwean Investors
The Dubai real estate market offers a great chance for Zimbabwean investors looking for reasonably priced apartment choices since it continues to grow and thrive. The most recent figures from Bayut's ...Published: 28 Sep 2024 at 20:02hrs | 433 | by Staff Reporter
Pioneering progress amid resource constraints in African radiology and oncology
Experts are concerned about resource limits and insufficient radiology skills and services in Africa, particularly for cancer detection and treatment. As the continent grapples with the rising burden ...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 07:41hrs | 143 | by Agencies
Zanu-PF's food-for-votes ploy leaves a bad taste
The African Diaspora Forum (ADF) has condemned the dishing out of food packages by Zimbabwean politicians who are trying to woo voters.Zimbabwe is going ahead with general elections in August ...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 07:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new Patriotic Bill just about 'loving your country,' says Mutsvangwa
The heavily criticised Patriotic Bill, which was passed by Zimbabwe's Parliament recently to clamp down on "subverting government", is not meant to suppress freedom of expression.This is accor...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:53hrs | 2 | 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
SA business group unhappy with rise of Zimbabwean expats
THE appointment of Sitholizwe Mdlalose as chief executive of South Africa's telecoms giant Vodacom has triggered xenophobic reactions after the country's Black Business Council (BBC) demanded that loc...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:13hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers send shockwaves abroad
A series of robberies in homes and highways in Zimbabwe have stoked fears in the diaspora community planning to return home for holidays.Local media reports say as many as 200 families in Zimb...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:21hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwean expats keep country afloat, remits $1 billion
Diaspora remittances to Zimbabwe jumped a record 58 percent from US$635.7 million to US$1 billion in 2020, the central bank said on Thursday, highlighting the key role played by expatriates in keeping...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa moves to tighten job terms, expats fear expulsion
Foreign workers in South Africa with expertise deemed vital to the economy are worried that authorities will reduce the number of critical skills eligible for work permits, a move they say could force...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:53hrs | | by Reuters
Zimbabwe was the real life Wakanda, recalls Danai Gurira
DANAI Gurira is taking a break from promoting her blockbuster film Black Panther to talk to a group that does not include any Hollywood reporters. But the playwright turned movie megastar is not actua...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 08:13hrs | | by Sean Braswell
'Out of his depth': Chamisa falls flat in the UK
With the election campaign unofficially underway, MDC-T President Nelson Chamisa took the unusual step of traveling to the UK to drum up support for his bid to become President of Zimbabwe.It ...Published: 11 May 2018 at 09:21hrs | | by Charles, Harare (student)
Come back home, Mnangagwa tells expats
The new dispensation in Harare needs the buy-in and investment of millions of Zimbabweans who left the country and settled elsewhere, particularly the multitudes resident in neighbouring South Africa ...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inhumane detention of Zimbabwean in the UK
LATELY, there has been increased detention of Zimbabweans in the UK with the aim of deporting them. Detentions and enforced removals of Zimbabweans from the UK have risen sharply in recent times with ...Published: 11 Jan 2018 at 18:37hrs | 6 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Partners who join families abroad living the high life or secretly struggling
Most people have left their families to go abroad and work. The idea is if things work they will come back and take their families so that where they will be they will be there also. A decision to go ...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 23:54hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Most Zimbabweans abroad suffer from severe homesickness
There is a feeling you feel and you feel that you had never felt that feeling before. This feeling is described by many as Severe Home Sickness. Being homesick is a normal feeling, one that many peopl...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 19:05hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Namibia expels Zimbabwean engineering expats
The Namibia government is letting go Zimbabwean engineering expatriates seconded there on a government-to-government agreement.This comes ahead of the expiry of a five-year Memorandum Of Under...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 13:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt seek to exclude expats from voting
Government is moving to disenfranchise millions of Zimbabweans in the key 2018 vote by refusing to re-align the Citizenship Act with the new Constitution, opposition parties and civic groups have said...Published: 17 May 2017 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Make bond notes official currency'
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says the country should adopt bond notes as a primary currency to alleviate cash shortages and solve economic challenges.RBZ director Economic Research S...Published: 11 Apr 2017 at 11:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean engineer held for 16 heists in the US
Johannesburg - For two-and-a-half years the Incognito Bandit kept one step ahead of the law as he single-handedly robbed US bank after US bank, his face hidden by a disguise.Now the FBI sa...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 20:35hrs | 5 | by Saturday Star
Zimbabweans ditch phone calls for WhatsApp
Zimbabweans living in South Africa are making fewer phone calls to friends and relatives back home as technologies such as WhatsApp take hold.This is according to a report from the Posts and T...Published: 21 Jan 2016 at 16:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is not the world's second poorest country - FACT
News media reported recently that Zimbabwe is the poorest country in the world after the Democratic Republic of Congo. But Africa Check discovered the ranking is flawed.Is Zimbabwe really the ...Published: 17 Sep 2015 at 14:13hrs | | by Researched by Lebohang Mojapelo
Zimbabwean expats face deportation from UK
The UK is about to introduce a new immigration rule that will require migrant workers who have been in the country for more than 5 years to have an annual income of £35 000 (R665 625 at R19.03/pound)...Published: 25 Jun 2015 at 15:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?
In the lexicon of human migration there are still hierarchical words, created with the purpose of putting white people above everyone else. One of those remnants is the word "expat".What ...Published: 15 Mar 2015 at 18:51hrs | | by Mawuna Remarque Koutonin
South Africa and the denial of xenophobia
The history of the 20th century is one of tragic national denials that became fuel and springboards for numerous wars and on the back of which genocide was invented long before there was a word for it...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 13:08hrs | | by Professor Tinyiko Maluleke
The new special dispensation permit, what it means for Zimbos
When tougher new immigration rules were first announced by the South African government earlier this year the...Published: 18 Aug 2014 at 17:09hrs | | by Researched by Sintha Chiumia and Anim van Wyk
The new special dispensation permit and what it means for Zimbabweans in SA
When tougher new immigration rules were first announced by the South African government earlier this year they sparked panic and uncertainty among many Zimbabwean expats living and working in th...Published: 13 Aug 2014 at 09:06hrs | | by Sintha Chiumia and Anim van Wyk
Zimbabwe's Haru Mutasa hosts Al Jazeera talk show
This Friday on Al Jazeera's talk show South2North, Haru Mutasa chats about millennial leadership with Pakistani author and political commentator Fatima Bhutto and two ambassadors to The One Young Wor...Published: 11 Oct 2013 at 03:41hrs | 14 | by Kevin Kriedemann
Against election backdrop - UK Zimbabweans head to Zimfest
As Zimbabweans around the world ponder the implications of the much criticised 2013 elections that have resulted in...Published: 07 Aug 2013 at 12:08hrs | 1 | by Mike Tashaya
Summer Grants for African students, Call for nominations
My name is Stella Hope, Director of Admissions at the Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance (HEA). HEA is a platform for young African social, busin...Published: 19 Jan 2012 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Stella Hope
Less Zimbabwean expats prefer Botswana
The number of work permit holders continues to decline, albeit at a slower rate, with just over 17,000 permit holders recorded by March this year from over 20,000 at the same time last year.Ac...Published: 04 Oct 2011 at 08:21hrs | | by -
No Excuse for Denying Expats Right to Vote
There is an urgent need for the clarification of confusion caused by contradictory statements by COPAC and the Prime Minister's Office on the subject of the Diaspora Vote.Recently, COPAC spok...Published: 18 Sep 2011 at 16:14hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Violence and crimes in the name of power: The Fear
In his latest book "The Fear", Peter Godwin describes torture, violence and crimes in the name of power in the country that was once a prototype of the "rainbow nation". Why did the paradigm never hap...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 08:14hrs | | by Peter Godwin
Zimbabwe has best climate in the world
International Living's 2011 Quality of Life Index reveals best climate in the world – Zimbabwe and Malta. Maybe it's too early for 1 April, but Zimbabwe has just tied w...Published: 10 Jan 2011 at 03:44hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
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