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University of Cape Town give white students higher marks

University of Cape Town (UCT)'s academics in the faculty of social development have allegedly been awarding higher marks to white students while penalising black students in a perpetuation of racism and a culture of inequality. Former…

Published: 03 Aug 2025 at 21:48hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe war veterans lose court bid to block compensation of white ex-farmers

The High Court has dismissed an application by a group of war veterans seeking to block the Government from compensating white former commercial farmers whose land was repossessed during Zimbabwe's Fast-Track Land Reform Programme.The War …

Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:08hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe white former farmers start receiving compensation

The Government of Zimbabwe has begun compensating white former commercial farmers whose land was repossessed during the Land Reform Programme, marking a pivotal step in the country's efforts to resolve a decades-old issue and accelerate it…

Published: 10 Apr 2025 at 09:01hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe fails to pay white farmers who had land expropriated

White commercial growers in Zimbabwe said that the government has failed to pay part of $331 million in compensation to farmers for expropriating their land but reimbursed others who weren't part of the deal.In a joint letter to the financ…

Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 10:08hrs | | by Staff reporter

White teachers at Pretoria High School don't greet black colleagues

A recent investigation commissioned by the Gauteng Education Department has uncovered discriminatory practices at Pretoria High School for Girls, where some white teachers reportedly fail to greet their black colleagues, allegedly assuming…

Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 11:36hrs | 2013 | by Staff reporter

Hundreds of white farmers return to Zimbabwe in boost for agriculture

Family after family fled along this dirt road towards Harare as they were evicted from their farms by Zimbabwean war veterans.The road through the country's prime, red-soiled land was a front line in Robert Mugabe's policy of seizing white…

Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Ben Farmer

Harvard accused of favouring mostly white students

Harvard's practice of granting preference to undergraduate applicants with family ties to the elite college is facing a legal challenge.Advocacy groups have petitioned the government to stop the Ivy League university's legacy admissions.Th…

Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe debt clearance tied to farmers' compensation and credible polls

THE African Development Bank has moved to fast-track Zimbabwe's $3.5 billion compensation to white farmers whose land was seized under former president Robert Mugabe's reforms. The bank is leading efforts to clear Zimbabwe's crippling debt…

Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Zeenat Hansrod

White skin, black masks!

Two developments caught my attention this week. One is a Brenthurst Foundation scholarship invitation to young Africans intent on pursuing postgraduate studies.Brenthurst Foundation is owned and financed by the Oppenheimers, and recently c…

Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:08hrs | 2 | by Jamwanda

Bulawayo's Renkini a white elephant as intercity buses shun it

Renkini Bus Terminus was, for years, the nerve centre for Bulawayo's transport system with people intending to travel to other cities and towns trooping to the station to board buses.Many others were dropped off at the terminus as well but…

Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter

Why I boycotted Queen Elizabeth II

I WAS a Lower Sixth student at Prince Edward School in Harare, Zimbabwe, when Queen Elizabeth II visited our school in October 1991. Zimbabwe was hosting that year's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the queen â€” as the head of…

Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:07hrs | 4 | by Tafi Mhaka

White former farmers blame Zuma, Sadc for loss of farms in Zimbabwe

Last month the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria handed down judgement in a R2 billion damages claim against South Africa by 25 dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers, some of whom were South African citizens, arising from findings by the Constituti…

Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:29hrs | 11 | by Ben Freeth

White farmers compensation gets murkier

Zimbabwe's ministers of Land and Finance issued a joint statement on the farm compensation issue on September 3, 2020, a month after the controversial signing of the Global Compensation Deed between the government and two farming organisat…

Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:01hrs | | by Ben Freeth

Mnangagwa's govt fails to fill gaps in compensation debate

THERE are issues in the compensation debate to which government has closed its mind and, therefore, has miserably failed to justify the decision. They include government's failure to justify compensation in the first place, except by asser…

Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:55hrs | | by Jonathan Maphenduka

An abiding tortoise of White House goons

Politics, as an existential science, can be characteristically hot, heavy and heady.In its very extreme form, politics can be similar to religious fundamentalism, where it becomes a matter of life and death.It is high-octane stuff that can…

Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Bishop Lazi

MDC and the colonial ghost of whiteness

David Coltart, the self-confessed former British South African Police (BSAP) member, who authored a rehashed moribund autobiography, recently rebounded as treasurer of the MDC at the party's congress held in Gweru.It is almost 19 years sin…

Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire

Zimbabwe's white farmers: Who will pay compensation?

In Zimbabwe, thousands of white farmers were forced from their farms, sometimes violently, between 2000 and 2001 under a government programme of land reform. The seizures were blamed for destroying Zimbabwe's economy, and ruined relations …

Published: 16 May 2019 at 20:25hrs | 2 | by BBC

Zimbabwe not white man's burden

We are on the edge of an epoch in Zimbabwe.The nation could experience a new normal, so to speak, as the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has only a matter of days to validate President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa's win, as announced by the Zi…

Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani

Mnangagwa's lease somersault not enough

GOVERNMENT'S recent policy shift to grant the few remaining white farmers in Zimbabwe with 99-year land leases does not address the inherent structural flaws of the legal instrument, which still remains unbankable and untransferable, disco…

Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Tinashe Kairiza

High profile Zimbabwean cleric grabs a white-owned farm

Three shell-shocked generations of the Smart family in Zimbabwe have been violently evicted from the remains of their farm in the Rusape district east of Harare by a top cleric, Bishop Trevor Manhanga, Presiding Bishop of the Pentecostal A…

Published: 06 Jul 2017 at 19:00hrs | 3 | by Ben Freeth

White tiger coat caused by single pigment gene mutation: Research

The spectacular white coats of white tigers are caused by a single change in a known pigment gene, a new study has found.The research, to be published in the June issue of Current Biology, might help end decades of speculation that the tra…

Published: 29 May 2013 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter

Mixed marriage dynamicsâˆšÃ‡

The number of interracial marriages is increasing rapidly among Zimbabweans. When people shipped themselves abroad, records indicate that the number of interracial marriages increased at an exponential rate. This trend reflects the changes…

Published: 12 Jan 2011 at 12:09hrs | | by Byo24News

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Chimanimani emerges as new HIV hotspot

Madzibaba WeShanduko's denied bail over Geza demo

Police dragged into messy Gwasira estate feud

Grade 7 pupil helps deliver neighbour's baby

Zambezi River tiger fish faces extinction

Traditional ceremony ends in murder as siblings kill brother

O-Zapu leader clashes with Binga traditional leaders

ZIFA to name new Warriors coach within a week

Treasury slashes Health Ministry's 2026 national budget bid

'Mnangagwa won't serve beyond 2028': ZANU-PF insider, opposition confirm

Harare woman arrested for stabbing husband over loan shark dispute

Gweru man killed in hit-and-run near church, driver surrenders to police

Zimbabwe's teacher training colleges face sharp decline in male enrolment

Zimbabwe rubbishes remarks by US lawmaker

US lawmaker warns Mnangagwa

George's political Sudoku failed to align

Mohadi awarded Honorary Doctorate

ZRP addresses public concerns over roadblocks

Kasukuwere rubbishes Mnangagwa's 2030 bid

'A junior soldier, not Chiwenga, could remove Mnangagwa' analyst warns of a 'neat, sadly bloody' plot

Jonathan Moyo's legal gymnastics cannot stretch Mnangagwa's term beyond 2028

Bulawayo Councillors Decry Lawlessness Among Public Transport Operators

Filabusi commissions fire tender as new firefighters join local ranks

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Mliswa dares Charamba to a fight

Man in court for stealing iPhone 11, US$70

Businesspeople lose over US$25,000 to con women

Lithium producer Prospect to build 70MW solar plant

Madzibaba WeShanduko charged over Geza protests

Horror crash driver to stand trial