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Outdated regulations stifling development in Zimbabwe
Councils across Zimbabwe must urgently modernize and adopt private sector-friendly reforms to eliminate bottlenecks in local government systems that threaten the country's ambitious economic transform...Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 15:03hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
Former Wenela miners call for Mnangagwa intervention
Former Zimbabwean miners who worked in South African mines under the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (Wenela) have appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene in efforts to secure th...Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 15:00hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Too old to die? 122-year-old Sekuru Banda denied funeral cover due to age
He has lived through the colonial era, both World Wars, and multiple global pandemics - yet for 122-year-old Sekuru Anuloisa Banda, a peaceful farewell remains an uncertain privilege.Yes, you ...Published: 09 May 2025 at 10:56hrs | 1095 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Matebeleland might have a claim in Botswana's Tati concession
The government of Botswana, through the Ministry of Lands and Agriculture, acquitted 45,000 hectares of land from the Tati company under the willing buyer and willing seller arrangement. The Botswana ...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 10:10hrs | 22683 | by Zenzele Ndebele
Ex-Wenela payouts could be made in November
Thousands of Zimbabweans who contracted respiratory diseases while working in South African gold mines between the 1960s and 1980s may begin receiving compensation from November. Tshiamiso Trust, the ...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:18hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Reconciling nationality and the rainbow nation idea
IT seems dust never settles in Mzansi, the land of gold. Just a few weeks after an election that did not deliver an outright winner, the country is embroiled in what seems to be another identity...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 07:07hrs | 78 | by Tapiwa Gomo
R5 billion for ex-Wenela payouts
AT LEAST 1 000 Zimbabweans who worked in South African gold mines under the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (Wenela) are set to benefit from the provisional compensation pool of R5 billion tha...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:26hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on alert for measles outbreak
Cabinet received an update on the Country‘s Response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a report on the procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by the Chairman of the National Covid-19 Inter-M...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs snub desperate Wenela miners
FORMER Zimbabwean mine workers who toiled under the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (WNLA), also known as "Wenela", have accused the country's lawmakers of ignoring their plight and refusing t...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:03hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans won't flee South Africa to return home
"WHEN you see a rat running into a fire, then you know that what it is running away from is hotter than the fire." - African proverb. Zimbabweans, who are in their millions in South Africa - som...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mining association holds summit in SA over unclaimed social benefits
THE Southern Africa Mining Association (Sama) recently held a summit in South Africa over unclaimed social benefits of migrant workers worldwide.Zimbabwe is one of the countries that was invit...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 12:49hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
South Africa and foreign labour
THE unemployment rate in South Africa hit a new record high of nearly 35% in the third quarter of 2021 which some allege had an influence on the African National Congress (ANC) dismal performance in l...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 2 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Ex-Wenela registration begins
The GOVERNMENT will tomorrow begin a mobile testing and registration exercise for thousands of Zimbabweans who worked in South African gold mines under the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (Wen...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Wenela workers warned against fake agents
Bogus and criminal elements posing as Government officials are understood to be accosting ex-Wenela mine workers and demanding payment to facilitate registration for gratuities due to them.Ex-...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF trashes ANC in explosive meeting
FRESH details have emerged from last week's stormy meeting between Zanu-PF and South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), revealing that the two former liberation movements main...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa interference in Zimbabwe 'problematic'
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's latest diplomatic push to find a solution to the crisis in Zimbabwe drew an angry response from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesmen on Tuesday.Mn...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 07:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus blocks ex-Wenela US$300m gratuities
Thousands of Zimbabweans who worked in South African gold mines during the 1960s may have to wait longer to receive their compensation for respiratory diseases contracted while working in the mines af...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Great Zimbabwe: At the centre of Soweto!
As the wave of violence, threats of violence and looting against foreign nationals and their businesses subsided in Johannesburg, it finally arrived in Soweto!Just after sunset on Wednesday 14...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | 3 | by Walter Nyabadza
Documentation challenges for ex-Wenela miners
EX-WENELA Miners Association of Zimbabwe is facing challenges in ensuring that its members and dependants of the deceased have the requisite documentation to enable them to receive compensation for re...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jobless and witless Sikhala
Well, when I see jobless and witless Sikhala what comes to mind are Tom and Jerry gimmicks! The MDC-Alliance might have tried hard to openly disown him on his utterances, but we are not fooled...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Velaphi Ncube's unheralded journey
ON Thursday, Misheck Ntunduzakovelaphi Velaphi Ncube was laid to rest at the National Heroes Acre in Harare following his declaration as a national hero.Born on 25 July 1937 in Matobo District...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:36hrs | 11 | by Pathisa Nyathi
SA ministers arrive for BNC talks
Three South African ministers arrived in the country last night for the third session of the Zimbabwe-South Africa Bi-National Commission, with president Cyril Ramaphosa expected to jet in today. ...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa flies in tomorrow
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will arrive in Harare tomorrow for the third session of the Zimbabwe-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC) that is expected to deepen bilateral relations an...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Wenela workers to get compensation
SOUTH African mines have reached a conditional settlement to pay compensation of up to R500 000 each to thousands of Zimbabweans who used to work in the neighbouring country's mines in the 1970's, sub...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 11:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
URGENT: Zimbabweans who worked for Wenela eligible for compensation
if you know of any mine worker who used to work in the South African mines and contracted silicosis or TB, may you get in touch with Ms. Phephelaphi Dube. These persons may be eligible for com...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 09:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mgagao clashes: A ZIPRA narrative
COMRADE Joseph Sibuko Mbedzi whose Chimurenga name was Joseph Sibuko was born in 1951 in Beitbridge. He grew up in a family that was heavily involved in politics. His big Brother John Mbedzi was expel...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:38hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Obituary : Rest in peace our eminent revolutionaries
Zimbabwe lost two prominent women in September alone, their deaths occurring hard on the heels of that of Mrs Maud Muzenda, another eminent Zimbabwean revolutionary mother.Mrs Angeline Kamba's...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 01:56hrs | 4 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Letter to SA Home Affair Minister Hlengiwe Buhle Mkhize - MRP
MATABELELAND CRY FOR JUSTICE Madam Honorable Minister Professor Hlengiwe Buhle Mkhize, the Matabeleland people based in your country and those in Matabeleland would like to draw your attention to matt...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 15:32hrs | 3 | by Ackim Gasela Mhlanga - MRP Foreign Affairs Secretary
General Chiwenga threatens war vets
The majority of war veterans have nothing to do with this nonsense that we are now getting daily in our media.The ones who are now championing themselves as the war veterans are members of an ...Published: 02 May 2017 at 06:40hrs | 15 | by Gen Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga
Ex-Wenela workers get back up
A SOUTH African human rights lawyer has vowed to represent about 30 000 Zimbabweans, who used to work at South African mines, to access their compensation that have not been released for more than 30 ...Published: 06 Mar 2016 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Lackson Munkombwe
This and that with Mal'phosa - Long live the love letter
Four ‘love' letters still stand out prominently from among the many I am lucky to have seen and read. Of course, one was written by me and it made me the laughing stock of the whole class if not the...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 14:12hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Former Wenela workers not collecting pensions
Ex-Wenela workers are being sought by a South African mine with a view of paying out their benefits.Scores of Zimbabwe's trickled to South Africa in the 70s to work in the mines.In a n...Published: 23 Dec 2015 at 13:13hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Ex-Wenela workers to receive pensions
SCORES of Zimbabweans who are former employees of the South African mines are set to receive their pensions and other benefits. Their representative body, the Ex-Wenela Miners Association, is making e...Published: 06 Jul 2015 at 07:49hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
When masters of tribalism taste their own medicine
Zimbabweans from Matabeleland region have been working and living in South Africa for many decades dating back to the colonial era. But we never heard of any immigrants who were attacked or killed...Published: 04 May 2015 at 11:59hrs | 1 | by Thabo Kunene
Will I also die? - Poem
Show me sticks that bruised my kinsSticks not as ones at 'Goodman gallery'Spears which failed more other kingsShow me blood spilt in protest of a 'salary'When fists weren't known, ...Published: 27 Apr 2015 at 22:31hrs | | by Zisunko Ndlovu
Not every one in the diaspora hates his/ her Zimbabwe
TWO weeks ago, I penned a piece on Obama and his conditioned inability to use "his" presidency to stop the abuse of blacks in America, abuses with a long history and tradition in that country. I note...Published: 06 Sep 2014 at 11:03hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Lawyers threatens legal fight for Wenela pensions
A South African law firm, Xulu Attorneys Incorporation, is threatening to take legal action against its government, financial institutions and mining companies for their failure to facilitate the rel...Published: 23 Mar 2014 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Zuma, 'It helps to think like an African!'
South African President Jacob Zuma is generally a man who harbours little fear of the negative consequences of his words or actions. Or if he does, he exhibits a certain confidence that he will overc...Published: 23 Oct 2013 at 10:51hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha
Mugabe's mockery of Matabeleland youth means they cannot rely on Zanu-PF
Addressing a Zanu PF star rally in Manicaland, PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe recently made disparaging remarks about Zimbabweans based in South Africa, saying most of them had menial jobs and were cont...Published: 27 Jul 2013 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by Titshabona Malaba Ncube
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