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Zimbabwean refugee becomes Mayor in the UK
A MUM who came to Reading as a refugee has been made the first Black female Mayor.She came to Reading in the 1990s as a refugee from her native Zimbabwe.In her acceptance speech, Counc...Published: 24 May 2025 at 08:51hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
UK based Zimbabwean refugee rescued by lawyer after deportation
A Zimbabwean refugee who was unlawfully removed from Britain yesterday has been rescued by his lawyers in Kenya en route to Harare and is now on his way back to the UK. Lawyer Brighton Mutebuk...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 13:09hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Forthcoming Zimbabwean elections not a Chamisa alone spectacle
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa cannot wrestle power from Zanu PF single -handedly without all progressive Zimbabweans putting hands on deck....Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 16:03hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Zimbabweans led mail interception fraudsters who terrorised northern England
Proceeds of crime proceedings have begun against mail interception fraudsters who targeted mainly rural addresses across the North East.Two leading members of the gang were jailed and three ac...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA will slam door shut to Zimbabwean refugees - all we ask, please stop endorsing rigged elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy
Zimbabwe is a textbook case failed state – a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent and lawless thugs who have rigged elections to cement their iron grip on power. 42 years of criminal waste of ...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 21:53hrs | 11 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Ramaphosa under pressure to decant indifference to Zanu PF rigging 2023 elections
The worsening economic situation in SA is forcing ANC to revisit its indifference to Zimbabwe's curse of rigged elections and bad governance. SA cannot afford a new wave of economic and/or political r...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 13:09hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Botswana court shuts out Zimbabwean refugees
A COURT in Botswana has turned down an application by Zimbabwean refugees seeking to avoid deportation after the neighbouring country cancelled their refugee status.Media reports from that cou...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:27hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Disquiet over deportations - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Even after discounting the more questionable assertions by campaigners, disquieting questions remain about the deportation of 14 Zimbabweans from the UK last Wednesday.The UK Home Secretary Pr...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 22:25hrs | 1 | by ZimVigil
Zimbabwean refugees return from Botswana
FORTY-EIGHT Zimbabweans who were refugees in Botswana returned home yesterday following a joint initiative by Government, Botswana as well as the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Most of...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean refugees forced out of Botswana
Scores of Zimbabwean refugees living in Botswana have lost their bid to remain in the country and now face deportation if they do not voluntarily leave.The nearly 300 refugees fled Zimbabwe du...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 5 | by Samantha Power
Gukurahundi victims snub repatriation offer
THE Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army Veterans Association on Sunday held a meeting to lobby government to facilitate the return of their exiled colleagues who fled the country in the 1980s at the ...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Exiled Gukurahundi survivors return
Hundreds of survivors of Gukurahundi atrocities and political violence who have been living at a refugee camp in Botswana were yesterday expected to return to Zimbabwe after decades of residing in the...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:37hrs | 4 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe refugees return home
THE first of group of 335 Zimbabweans who sought refuge in Botswana a few years ago is set to arrive in the country today through Plumtree Border Post in an initiative being championed by the Governme...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 15:31hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zim children in SA miss exams as Home Affairs sends them from city to city
SOUTH Africa: Three Zimbabwean refugee children‚ aged seven‚ 12 and 14‚ have been out of school for two weeks and missed examinations because they had to travel from Johannesburg to Cape Town to...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:53hrs | 1 | by TimesLive.com
Why Zimbabwe should be split into two states
This is the prologue from the book Matabele Rising by David Hilton Barber, Footprint Press, R240Zimbabwe is not one country; to pretend otherwise is a dangerous hallucination. The country has ...Published: 29 May 2018 at 13:56hrs | 1 | by Geoge Mkhwanazi
Obert Mpofu urges Zim refugees in Botswana to 'go home'
HOME affairs minister Obert Mpofu has urged Zimbabwean in Botswana to return home as the Gaborone government made it clear that people could not be refugees forever.According to NewZimbabwe.co...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 19:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
All Zimbabwean refugees urged to return home
THE Government has said all Zimbabweans who are refugees in other countries should come back home as there is no reason for them to continue living outside the country under the new dispensation....Published: 17 Feb 2018 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
How Oliver Mtukudzi sheltered a Zimbabwean refugee in downtown Harare
Music is soulful shelter. I became a refugee when I discovered potential life hidden in the works of Mbare-born guitarist Louis Mhlanga and the late Mozambican Afro-Jazz singer Gito Baloi and slowly r...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 17:07hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
'It's a coup, despite what Chiwenga and Zimbabwe military says'
Analysts have described the Zimbabwean military's house arrest of President Robert Mugabe, his wife Grace, and other top state officials as a coup d'état, despite military leaders denying that it has...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 12:26hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe should be split into two states
'Matabeleland is bigger than Sierra Leone, Liberia, Malawi, Lesotho, Swaziland, Togo, Guinea Bissau, Rwanda, Burundi, Eritrea and Djibouti, all found in Africa' - ...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 15:03hrs | 17 | by George Mkhwanazi
Grace Mugabe unplugged
The furore around Grace Mugabe, her sons, their behaviour and the Mugabe family properties in South Africa illustrates the axiom: Their enrichment has come at the expense of Zimbabweans.There ...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 12:51hrs | | by Tendai Biti and Greg Mills
Opposition leaders will only accept reforms if their lives, not povo's, or burnt bar shed were on the line
A few months ago, Tendai Biti, PDP President's rural home was attacked in what he claimed was a politically motived move. On Tuesday night, it was Elias Mudzuri, one of the three MDC-T VPs whose home ...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 23:03hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe jets off to Botswana
President Robert Mugabe is now in Botswana, where he will join the people of that country and other African leaders for the burial of Botswana's second president, Sir Ketumile Masire.Mugabe, w...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 21:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zim Diaspora demand second independence #Take2Zimbabwe
Leicester, UK_The Zimbabwean diaspora kicked off the UK Refugee week with their #Take2Zimbabwe protest (demanding a second independence) last Saturday. They have held similar protests in London, Birmi...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 13:38hrs | 7 | by Agencies
Zim Diaspora UK commemorate Refugee Week
Leicester, UK, 17 June 2017. The Zimbabwe diaspora rallied in Leicester to kick off the start of UK refugee week with the #Take2Zimbabwe protest.They have held similar protests in London, Birmingham, ...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 21:46hrs | 15 | by Kingstone Jambawo
Lack of succession plan for Mugabe heighten the risk of political instability
The lack of a clear succession plan for aged President Robert Mugabe has heightened the risk of political instability in Zimbabwe amid worsening Zanu-PF factional power struggles ahead of the poll...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 15:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Zanu-PF must apologise for insulting Khama
Pastor Timothy Chiguvare has said Botswana President Ian Khama and his government has been taking care of Zimbabwean people in his country for so long because President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu ...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 07:24hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Open letter to President Jacob Zuma concerning Zimbabwe
Sir:Parliamentary Panel on Zimbabwean Situation NecessaryI write this letter with a heavy heart as I contemplate how best to address you ...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 13:54hrs | 34 | by Ken Sibanda
Dear President Khama, please save Zimbabwe
With the army going unpaid while the government tries to find the money, the Vigil delivered a petition to the Botswana High Commission in London calling for the help of the Southern African Developme...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 16:04hrs | 1 | by ZimVigil
Diarrhoea hits Zimbabwean refugees in SA
Musina - Giggles echo in the dusty, fenced enclosure which has housed tens of thousands of homeless people, mainly Zimbabwean migrants, seeking greener pastures on the lucrative side of the mighty Lim...Published: 10 Jan 2016 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
PDZ President sympathyses with Zim refugees in SA
Progressive Democrats of Zimbabwe Party President Barbara Nyagomo has expressed deep sympathy with some Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa who are struggling to acquire asylum status documents amid r...Published: 22 Nov 2015 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
The raping of Judith Todd for exposing Gukurahundi atrocities in 1983
Judith "Judie" Todd, the daughter of Sir Garfield Todd was a political activist from the early 1960s opposing the minority government of Ian Smith, the same Judie who was responsible for protestin...Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 10:57hrs | 7 | by Cde Cakes Vundla Zapu Youth Front Leader - Facebook
Botswana says refugees must go back home when problems in their country end
Botswana authorities have challenged refugees in that country to go back to their homes when conditions that forced them into Botswana are no longer prevalent in their countries.This was said...Published: 17 Jun 2015 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans' craziest names
Twenty-seven years ago, as the Chiore family of Harare celebrated the birth of their seventh child, they didn't linger long over what to name him. In fact, the choice was obvious."Most people ...Published: 31 May 2015 at 08:53hrs | | by csmonitor
Zimbo locked up in Botswana for falsehoods
A Zimbabwean refugee appeared before Francistown magistrates' court last Wednesday accused of supplying false information to a public officer in order to fraudulently obtain an identity card (Oma...Published: 31 Mar 2015 at 13:48hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwean man denied medication in Botswana jail
A 39-year-old Zimbabwean refugee in Botswana has told the Francistown Magistrate Court that prison officials denied him medical assistance after accusing him of having Foot and Mouth disease whil...Published: 17 Mar 2015 at 13:57hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwean refugees turn down move to Soweto
The Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg says some Zimbabwean immigrants have opted to go back home rather than move to Soweto after the church took a decision to close down its central Johannesbu...Published: 14 Jan 2015 at 16:42hrs | | by Itumeleng Mafisa
Understanding Zapu History - Part 3
This is the final part of the series, however, we intend to continue engaging Dr Taurai Njekete on many different ZAPU historical issues, some will be published here and some will not, but will be pub...Published: 24 Dec 2014 at 17:35hrs | 15 | by Taurai Njekete
President Mugabe, a man of unity
December 22 marks a very important day in the history and future of the Republic of Zimbabwe.Two revolutionary parties that had differed in the approach of executing the war of liberation but ...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 13:26hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Mujuru should have heeded Grace Mugabe's advice
December 22 marks a very important day in the history and future of the Republic of Zimbabwe. Two revolutionary parties that had differed in the approach of executing the war of liberation but remaine...Published: 11 Dec 2014 at 10:33hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Undisputed Motherhood
The flexibility with which the ZANU PF approaches the subject of being revolutionary is timeous and negotiative of the dynamics that coins and anchors deep in solidifying its support base....Published: 01 Aug 2014 at 13:04hrs | 1 | by Caitlin Kamba
Botswana to turn away Zim asylum seekers
Botswana is planning to reject applications for refugee status by Zimbabweans in future, claiming the political situation in Zimbabwe has improved from what it was in 2008 when scores of people fled p...Published: 22 Jul 2014 at 15:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dawning soon! Zimbabweans have turned Negativity into Positivity
Take pride to be Zimbabwean oh Dear Great people! Be proud to be part of a Nation that continues to prove itself amongst great Nations of the World. Raise your self-esteem where ever you are and h...Published: 17 Jul 2014 at 11:19hrs | 2 | by Ryton Dzimiri
SA advises Zim permit holders to be patient
South Africa has advised Zimbabwean nationals who were given permits in 2010 under the Dispensation for Zimbabweans programme to 'wait patiently and with no panic' as Pretoria moves to review the proc...Published: 24 Jun 2014 at 10:34hrs | 1 | by Mthulisi Mathuthu
Voluntary repatriation of Zimbabweans resumes
FRANCISTOWN - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has resumed a voluntary repatriation programme for hundreds of Zimbabwean refugees who fled to Botswana from political persecution...Published: 05 Jun 2014 at 18:21hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zim refugee sexually defile a 15-year-old girl in Botswana
A ZIMBABWEAN refugee in Botswana, Tickey Dube, appeared at the Francistown Magistrates' Court to answer a charge of molesting a 15-year-old girl after being caught in the act by the minor's relat...Published: 13 Mar 2014 at 15:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zim immigrants' fate hangs in the balance
THE fate of millions of Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa hangs in the balance following the neigbouring country's decision to craft regulations to control the influx of immigrants.Sou...Published: 05 Mar 2014 at 12:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Not As Bad!
It's now clear that the Zimbabwean electorate resembles the plebians in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. In one moment they are mourning Julius Caesar and in the next, Mark Anthony hops on stage and g...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 03:04hrs | | by Joram Nyandoro
A day with Zimbabwean refugees in Musina South Africa
MUSINA - There are more Zimbabweans than South Africans in this town according to the last official census in South Africa.Infact Musina, the busy border town between Zimbabwe and South Africa...Published: 23 Apr 2013 at 04:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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