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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 | 805 | 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 begins compensation of BIPPA protected ex-white farmers

Finance and Investment Promotion Minister Mthuli Ncube has announced the commencement of compensation payments to farmers under a US$20 million facility allocated in the 2024 National Budget. The payments are targeted at farmers and invest…

Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 06:41hrs | 783 | 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 | 574 | 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

Zimbabwe will start to pay 444 white farmers after land grabs

Zimbabwe will begin compensating White farmers whose land was seized in 2000 and led to the decimation of agriculture and the economy.The government has cleared 444 former commercial farm owners to receive payment for improvements made on …

Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:09hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter

White South African men linked to R2 billion clandestine drug laboratory

THE bail application for two of the five arrested men linked to the R2 billion clandestine drug laboratory in Limpopo, has been denied in the Groblersdal Magistrateâ€™s Court.IOL has previously reported that Gonzales Jorge Partida, 51; Gut…

Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 13:35hrs | 1328 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe white farmers reject 'bad deal'

Representatives of white commercial farmers whose land was expropriated by the Zimbabwean government have rejected Treasury Bills (TBs) proposed as compensation. This comes after the government's land reform program in the early 2000s, whi…

Published: 03 Aug 2024 at 12:56hrs | 1318 | by Staff reporter

1,300 white farmers seek payouts from Zimbabwe govt

About 1,300 White Zimbabwean commercial farmers, whose land was seized in the early 2000s, have signed up to receive compensation and those who qualify will be paid in 10-year treasury bills, a government official said."We now have to go t…

Published: 18 May 2024 at 21:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe gets white Miss Universe Zimbabwe 2023

Zimbabwe has earned a spot at this year's Miss Universe competition, which will take place in El Salvador, Central America, in two months. Brooke Bruk Jackson, a 21-year-old beautician, was crowned the winner at a glamorous ceremony held a…

Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 07:55hrs | 64 | 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 | 4 | 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 | 31 | 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

African Devt Bank proposes â€˜fast track' compensation for Zimbabwe white ex-farmers

The African Development Bank (AFDB) has developed financial instruments to "fast track and front load" $3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was taken from them by Zimbabwe's government, the bank's president said on Mond…

Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:05hrs | | by Staff reporter

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 | 10 | by Staff reporter

White bride on rural stoep

ONE of the hallmarks of a marriage in the Ndebele culture is ukucola, a ritual to introduce the daughter-in-law to the ancestors which is conducted by the groom's family. The process involves sprinkling bile from a goat on the daughte…

Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | | 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

Kirsty Coventry under fire over all-white hockey team

YOUTH, Sports, Arts and Recreation minister Kirsty Coventry has come under fire from stakeholders following the selection of all white senior women's hockey team to represent Zimbabwe in the Africa Cup of Nations in Accra, Ghana.The tourna…

Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter

Where are the white players in Zimbabwe football?

 COULD it be a true representation of the country's demographics, could it have something to do with negative perception especially on the financial side, could it be deep rooted segregation or its simply lack of talent on their part?…

Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:42hrs | 17 | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo

Mthuli Ncube secures US$1m for former farmers

Government has secured US$1 million that will go towards the payment of compensation to white former farm owners as agreed in the Global Compensation Deed signed last year.Government signed the GCD with the former farmers whose land was ga…

Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff writer

White farmer 'takes over' indigenous farmers' land

INDIGENOUS A2 farmers outside Marondera are up in arms with a white farmer whom they accuse of encroaching onto their land saying he was repossessing it. Rodney Cormack, of Dombi Estates, lost a sizeable piece of land to black beneficiarie…

Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

White farmer 'invades' land

A land reform programme beneficiary in Marondera has accused a white farmer of invading his land and has appealed to authorities to resolve the matter. The affected farmer, Mr Livison Manjengwa, said his farm had been invaded by his neighb…

Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

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 | 3 | by Jonathan Maphenduka

95% white farmers happy with US$3,5 billion govt compensation deal

COMMERCIAL Farmers Union of Zimbabwe (CFU) president, Nick Swanepoel has dismissed reports that the US$3.5 billion Global Compensation Agreement between farmers' representative groups and government was being imposed on the former landowne…

Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:14hrs | | by newzimbabwe

Zuma accuses Ramaphosa of seeking 'white validation'

Former president Jacob Zuma has written to his successor President Cyril Ramaphosa, taking him to task for the latter's letter to party members condemning corruption. In a letter seen by News24, Zuma said Ramaphosa's letter was fundamental…

Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 20:04hrs | | by Staff reporter

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

White Zimbabwean farmer 'resists' to make way for Mnangagwa ally's son

CHIPINGE farmer and retired Swiss banker, Richard Le Vieux, who has established a reputable business of exporting coffee, avocados and macadamia nuts for the past 30 years, appeared in court on Wednesday charged with failing to vacate part…

Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

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

Compensation of white farmers by Zimbabwe - Statement

Press Statement on the Implementation of Compensation of Former Farm Owners by the Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe 1. As stated in the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) (October 2018-December 2020), the Government of the Re…

Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 14:34hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe almost ready to compensate white farmers

Zimbabwe has made significant progress in its efforts to compensate white former farmers with valuations having been carried out for nine of the 10 provinces.Government is of the view that dealing with the twin issues of farmer compensatio…

Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:29hrs | | by Staff reporter

'White foreigners looting Zimbabwe gemstones'

FOREIGNERS from countries outside Africa are looting Zimbabwe's gemstones and smuggling them through Zambia, a mines sector official has said.Briefing guests at a Zimbabwe Miners Federation meeting Tuesday, Kawara said government was only …

Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:07hrs | 3 | by newzimbabwe

Zimbabwe's white farmers 'getting poorer, sicker' as they await govt compensation

WHITE farmers in Zimbabwe, who were evicted from their properties years ago, have been experiencing a drop in food production, and their hope to get government financial help to compensate any losses caused by land seizures is slowly dimmi…

Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by newsweek

Captured Ramaphosa disses the term 'white monopoly capital'

President Cyril Ramaphosa has dissed the term "white monopoly capital" while addressing the inaugural SA Investment Summit dinner on Friday."One thing that I learnt is the three Es: Education, entrepreneurship and an efficient government,"…

Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 18:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

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

Victoria Falls re-opens White water rafting season

VICTORIA FALLS has reopened the White Water Rafting season, following its suspension early this year due to high water flows in the Zambezi River.The adrenaline-pumping adventure closes every year during the rainy season until water levels…

Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter

Ginimbi brings '30 Billion Concert'

FLAMBOYANT business tycoon, Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure, has taken it upon himself to ensure that slippery Nigerian superstar, Davido, who last year stood up Zimbabwean fans on more than one occasion, finally fulfils his assignment in Harar…

Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter

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

White Zimbabwean farmers ordered to drop court cases

NewZimbabwe.com reported that all white farmers who have taken the government to court over disputed farm seizures have been told to withdraw their cases and instead engage the State on how to resolve the wrangles, a government minister ha…

Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter

White farmer pins hope on Shiri

A TOP white Marondera farmer, Phillip Worswick, has said he is pinning his hopes on the government to restitute his land so he can resume operations after a huge chunk of his land was grabbed by new indigenous farmers in August last year.W…

Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

White SA party calls for fresh elections in Zimbabwe

A Whites controlled party in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance, has called for Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe to resign and the country to hold fresh elections, as the security situation in that country deteriorates."This will allo…

Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 10:32hrs | | by Staff reporter

'Mohadi behind white farmer's troubles'

A prominent Beitbridge farmer has accused State Security minister Kembo Mohadi of orchestrating his persecution after the authorities stepped up pressure to force him out of his wildlife conservancy.Ian Ferguson, who has been battling to s…

Published: 24 Sep 2017 at 12:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

'White' ghost torments family

EVER heard of Casper the friendly ghost?His arch rival in the form of a "white ghost" has been terrorising a family from Chingwere village in Mhondoro.The ghost has since forced them to abandon their homestead and move around the country s…

Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

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

De Lille's suspension rock SA whites party

Cape Town Mayor Patricia De Lille's office on Tuesday denied that she had been handed a letter of expulsion by the DA.Her spokesperson, Zara Nicholson, dismissed the claim."It's not true. That's what I know," she told News24.com.The party'…

Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 14:38hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mujuru offers to 'pay white farmer $1.4 million'

Zimbabwe's sacked Vice-President Joice Mujuru has agreed to pay compensation of $1.4m (Â£1.14m) to a white farmer whose land her family took, UK-based Zimbabwean journalist Violent Gonda has told the BBC's Newsday programme.Ms Gonda organi…

Published: 12 Oct 2016 at 19:57hrs | | by BBC

Zimbabwean white soccer player making his mark in division one

TEENAGE soccer star Chris Sainthomas is going against the trend in Zimbabwean football - plunging into a game that has been ignored by hundreds of white footballers - and making his mark in the Eastern Region Division One Soccer League.And…

Published: 16 May 2015 at 14:23hrs | 3 | by Takudzwa Chitsiga

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