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How Britain plans to keep Zimbabwe poor

After decades of isolation, Britain has returned to Zimbabwe - not with apologies, but with a billion-dollar shopping list and a polished script about "mutual benefit." At the centre of the conversation? Lithium. Suddenly, Zimbabwe's lithi…

Published: 09 Aug 2025 at 13:25hrs | | by Sizwe SikaMusi

Britain's interference in the US presidential election will backfire badly

Foreign interventions in elections or referenda rarely end well for the interventionists. In 2016, then US President Barack Obama foolishly lectured the British people on how they should vote in the upcoming referendum on EU membership, wa…

Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 19:22hrs | 13 | by Nile Gardiner

Colonialism belongs to old time Britain

ASSERTIONS by one Tendai Ruben Mbofana (Zim leaders eagerly defending Chinese colonialism! NewsDay May 25, 2022) that China has colonised Zimbabwe cannot go unchallenged.The contents of the so-called Open Letter to President Emmerson Mnang…

Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Christopher Mahove

Britain and the USA gave Putin the idea of invasion, by doing this in Iraq, Libya, Serbia etc

In the long-ago summer of 2010, I found myself in the beautiful harbour of Sevastopol, surveying the rival fleets of Russia and Ukraine as they rode at anchor in the lovely Crimean sunshine. One great fortress was adorned with banners proc…

Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 08:45hrs | | by Peter Hitchens

Mugabe's remains could be exhumed by family, and sent to Britain for a safer burial

If the Government of Zimbabwe does not want to be humiliated, they should leave Mugabe's remains where family chose to bury him. There would be indelible humiliation if Grace Mugabe   decided to ask the British Government to take…

Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 21:06hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri

Britain desperately needs Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe

THE most outlandish aspect of Britain's past and recent actions is that despite its posturing on Zimbabwe, the former colonial power desperately needs Harare for its economic revival efforts, especially after its rather inglorious exit fro…

Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 05:49hrs | | by Golden Guvamatanga

Britain must pay part of the money to compensate Zimbabwe white farmers

To be fair, just and reasonable, it would be conscionable to Zimbabwe, if the UK government contributed a certain percentage of the money to be paid as compensation to Zimbabwe displaced white farmers.That is because the land in dispute wa…

Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 09:16hrs | | by Njabulo

Britain's New African Empire

Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange control over $1trillion worth of Africaâ€™s resources in just five commodities â€“ oil, gold, diamonds, coal and platinum. My research for the NGO, War on Want, which has just been published, r…

Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:16hrs | | by Mark Curtis

Did Britain back Mnangagwa?

Nyathi said that in the meeting, Laing "sounded to be really forcing a line that Mnangagwa is the person to work with, and she wanted our opinions around that".Zanu-PF's opponents have alleged a years-long close relationship between Laing …

Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:08hrs | | by Rahul Nagvekar

Britain must stop duplicity, treachery

HE outburst by British Minister for Africa, Harriet Baldwin, that the United Kingdom has all but lost confidence in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime is unfortunate.Not that we supported them in the first place or that we totally agree…

Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 19:53hrs | 3093 | by Editorial - newsday

Theresa May lays clear conditions for Mnangagwa to access her Â£4billion pledge

In her Cape Town speech, the UK Prime Minister made clear her conditions for African countries that can potentially benefit from her government's "additional Â£4 billion programme of UK investment". The conditions have become timely for Mn…

Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 12:34hrs | | by Fungayi Mukosera

Britain's bet on Mnangagwa victory hangs in the balance

Efforts to nurse Zimbabwe back to international respectability depended on free and fair elections, but the plan appears to be unravelling.Ever since the then Africa minister Rory Stewart took the strategic bet to rush to Harare in Novembe…

Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 11:24hrs | | by Patrick Wintour

The beating heart of Zimbabwe hypocrisy

The hypocrisy at the heart of the Zanu PF regime was exposed by President Mnangagwa's son Emmerson Jr in a graphic interview he gave in Harare to the London Sunday Times veteran foreign correspondent Christina Lamb about his father's escap…

Published: 28 May 2018 at 14:57hrs | | by ZimVigil

Britain ready to work with Zimbabwe

In terms of value, the combined total value of UK projects approved by the Zimbabwe Investment Authority between 2014 and 2017 was more than US$336 million. These projects are all at various stages of completion.I made a regional working v…

Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 16:37hrs | | by Ambassador Catriona Laing

Mnangagwa: Is the West now seeking new, better puppet?

ZIMBABWE'S political discourse is intriguing. What is particularly striking is how the same old narrative that shaped Rhodesia is today playing a central role in all the factional dynamics bedeviling or otherwise reshaping the country's fo…

Published: 10 Feb 2018 at 09:55hrs | 871 | by Staff writer

British 'excessively defensive' on atrocities in Matabeleland

THIS is the fifth in a series of articles of a detailed research paper by British academic Hazel Cameron on the state-sponsored killings of civilians by Zimbabwean security forces between 1982 and 1987 under the pretext of suppressing diss…

Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 06:09hrs | | by Hazel Cameron, British academic

Britain's vested interests in the newly independent Zimbabwe

THIS is the third in a series of articles of a detailed research paper by British academic Hazel Cameron on the state-sponsored killings of civilians by Zimbabwean security forces between 1982 and 1987 under the pretext of suppressing diss…

Published: 19 May 2017 at 06:57hrs | | by Hazel Cameron ,British academic

What Britain did (and didn't) on Gukurahundi

CONTRARY to allegations that Western governments "did nothing" when Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's army went on the rampage in the early 1980s, they may have helped prevent total slaughter. But they also taught him that he could cali…

Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 16:30hrs | | by Stuart Doran Historian & Author

UK triggers article 50

Here is the full text of Theresa May's letter to European Council president Donald Tusk, beginning the start of Brexit negotiations.Dear President TuskOn 23 June last year, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union…

Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 14:07hrs | 510 | by BBC

Is the UK referendum result to leave EU legally binding?

The question in most people's minds is whether the referendum result "to leave" is legally binding on the United Kingdom. One fundamental truth is that the United Kingdom parliament is sovereign and the leader of the country, in this insta…

Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 05:34hrs | | by Lloyd Msipa

What Britain owes Zimbabwe

I HAVE written several articles that have addressed Zimbabwean human rights and rule of law, as well as South African foreign policy. I now turn my attention to Zimbabwean legal constitutional history and in particular "The Declaration of …

Published: 22 Jun 2015 at 19:40hrs | | by Ken Sibanda

Britain's shameful part in Mugabe tyranny

I CAN'T imagine that anyone in his right mind would actually want to go to the 91st birthday party of Robert Gabriel Mugabe which takes place this Saturday.It promises to be an event of truly spectacular moral ugliness. While his people ar…

Published: 24 Feb 2015 at 07:08hrs | | by Boris Johnson

Poor Britain is now begging us, COMRADES!

CABINET FILES AND NOTEBOOK WITH CZ Dear Cabinet and Politburo members COMRADES, last week our re-engagement team with Europe was in London at the invitation of the British government âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨Â¬Â¶ it is no coincidence that this meeting …

Published: 02 Apr 2013 at 11:26hrs | | by CZ Notebook

British empire just ignoring its crimes

There is one thing you can say for the Holocaust deniers: at least they know what they are denying. In order to sustain the lies they tell, they must engage in strenuous falsification. To dismiss Britain's colonial atrocities, no such effo…

Published: 26 Apr 2012 at 04:03hrs | | by George Monbiot

Britain is skint, what lessons can be drawn!

"Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye?You hypocrite, fi…

Published: 03 Mar 2012 at 07:22hrs | | by Dancase B.Gideon

Could the Zimbabwe - Britain impasse end!

Harare - Will Zimbabwe and Britain ever see eye-to-eye over the land issue?According to some Internet news reports, the two bickering countries might soon be sitting at one table to thrash out a thorny issue whose origins stretch back over…

Published: 27 Jun 2011 at 09:26hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika

How can Britain be so stupid, sell arms to despots then bleat about democracy

The most shaming picture to have been published in a newspaper for some time appeared in yesterdayâˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢s Mail. It showed a British-made armoured personnel carrier speeding past Libyan demonstrators. Perhaps you will think tha…

Published: 24 Feb 2011 at 13:31hrs | 969 | by Stephen Glover

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