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British objections stall Zimbabwe's bid to rejoin the club of colonies

Zimbabwe's bid to rejoin the Commonwealth has hit a stumbling block, with British objections delaying the southern African nation's re-admission, Foreign Affairs Minister Amon Murwira revealed in Parliament last week.Murwira said despite Z…

Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 09:04hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt equips 25 rural hospitals with medical equipment

The Government has distributed anaesthetic and digital X-ray machines to 25 rural district hospitals across Zimbabwe as part of a broader initiative to enhance healthcare service delivery in remote areas, Health and Child Care Minister Dr …

Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 06:15hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe completes Commonwealth re-admission steps

Zimbabwe has successfully completed all the procedural steps required for re-admission into the Commonwealth and is now awaiting further direction from the organisation's secretariat, a senior government official has confirmed.The mileston…

Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 06:14hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter

After all, there's no common wealth in the Commonwealth

When it comes to Zimbabwe, UK's Labour does not work. It was Labour led by Harold Wilson, which duplicitously aided and abetted the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) by Ian Smith's Rhodesia Front in 1965. And it was the same Lab…

Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 16:28hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo

Colonial master blocks Zimbabwe's Commonwealth readmission

Zimbabwe's bid to rejoin the Commonwealth has been effectively blocked by the United Kingdom, which has stated that the country must first address its governance and human rights record before being readmitted. This development comes after…

Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 11:08hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's Commonwealth possible readmission queried

Zimbabwe's bid for readmission to the Commonwealth has raised concerns about the bloc's credibility as a champion of democracy and justice, with critics arguing that the country's human rights record undermines its qualifications for membe…

Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 07:12hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa gets Commonwealth leaders support in bid to rejoin bloc

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's efforts to get Zimbabwe back into the Commonwealth are being backed by the grouping's secretary general, Patricia Scotland, who believes he has done enough to warrant a return.This is despite a report by its …

Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:38hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe inches closer to rejoining Britain's colonies club

Zimbabwe's "remarkable democratic progress" has positioned the nation closer to rejoining the Commonwealth, the bloc's secretary-general, Ms. Patricia Scotland, has said.As Zimbabwe intensifies its re-engagement efforts under President Emm…

Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Commonwealth chief bids for Zimbabwe readmission despite rights abuses

Zimbabwe could be readmitted to the Commonwealth â€“ despite concern over its human rights record â€“ following support from Baroness Scotland, the organisation's controversial Secretary-General.She has recommended the country be allowed t…

Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:27hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter

Call for reparations: A mere excuse by failed African leaders!

As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) kicked off this week in Samoa, the topic of reparations for slavery and colonialism has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Several African nations have taken this opportunity …

Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 287 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Chamisa loyalists opposed to Zimbabwe's Commonwealth readmission

A faction of the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) party, primarily loyal to former leader Nelson Chamisa, has publicly opposed Zimbabwe's attempt to rejoin the Commonwealth under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration. The Commo…

Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 11:20hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF grovels to Canada for backing in bid for Commonwealth readmission

The ruling Zanu-PF party has reached out to Canada for assistance in its efforts to end its pariah status and rejoin the Commonwealth, a move that dates back to Zimbabwe's withdrawal from the group in 2003 during Robert Mugabe's presidency…

Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 08:07hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter

India to support Zimbabwe Commonwealth, UNSC bid

India has pledged to lobby for support towards Zimbabwe's bid to re-join the Commonwealth and for a seat as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. This was stated by Mr. Puneet Roy Kundal, additional secretary from …

Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 11:24hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mwonzora calls for Zimbabwe to rejoin the club of ex-British colonies

Douglas Mwonzora, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance, has called for Zimbabwe to rejoin the Commonwealth of Nations to promote economic prosperity. Speaking in Bulawayo, Mwonzora highlighted the benefits of rejoining, su…

Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 10:53hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe to rejoin Commonwealth in 2024

In a pivotal development underscoring President Mnangagwa's diplomatic doctrine of engagement and re-engagement, Zimbabwe stands on the brink of a historic return to the Commonwealth in early 2024. This prospective reintegration is strateg…

Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:25hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu

Commonwealth readmission a must for Zimbabwe

WE reported yesterday that Britain is pushing for Zimbabwe's readmission to the Commonwealth.President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been pushing for Zimbabwe's readmission to the club of nations under his "friends to all and enemies to none" man…

Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:20hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

'Britain keen on Zimbabwe's Commonwealth readmission'

BRITISH ambassador to Zimbabwe, Peter Vowles, has said his country is keen to have Zimbabwe readmitted into the Commonwealth and end two decades of isolation.In an exclusive interview with NewsDay on the sidelines of World Children's Day c…

Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 05:37hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter

'Elections key for Zimbabwe's Commonwealth readmission'

ZIMBABWE'S elections in the next four months will decide the country's chances of being readmitted into the CommonwealthZIMBABWE'S elections in the next four months will decide the country's chances of being readmitted into the Commonwealt…

Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's Commonwealth bid in danger

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's bid to re-join the Commonwealth bloc could be in serious jeopardy after a grouping of lawyers within the bloc raised questions over the country's deteriorating human rights situation.This came as Mnangagwa ye…

Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 07:52hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's Commonwealth bid still on course, claims Govt

FOREIGN Affairs deputy minister David Musabayana has said government is still locked in negotiations to re-join the Commonwealth group of nations.Zimbabwe was first suspended from the Commonwealth in early December 2003, after the late for…

Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:43hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe makes Commonwealth inroads?

ZIMBABWE continues to make headway in its quest to rejoin the Commonwealth after a Cabinet minister was invited to attend the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisations Ministerial Alliance for Digital Nations meeting in the United King…

Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

After allowing authoritarian Rwanda to join, Commonwealth faces tough dilemma over Zimbabwe

After allowing a wave of authoritarian regimes to become members in recent years, the Commonwealth and member states such as Canada are now pondering one of their toughest dilemmas: whether to approve Zimbabwe's bid to rejoin their club.Th…

Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 14 | by Geoffrey York

Commonwealth has appalling human rights record

This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting - presided over by…

Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 173 | by Jonathan Moyo

Chamisa left the fact-finding Mission deeply unimpressed

One Morris too manyWhat it's a name?The name of the old Triple C activist "beaten" in Murehwa is Morris Seremani. Morris as also the name of one turncoat freedom fighter who betrayed the Liberation Struggle, and led Rhodesian soldiers to Z…

Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:22hrs | 14 | by Jamwanda

Does Zimbabwe need the Commonwealth?

ZIMBABWE joined the Commonwealth in 1980 after gaining independence from Britain - in what appeared to be a major victory for the Commonwealth. Twenty-three years down the road, Zimbabwe quit the Commonwealth in dramatic fashion when the a…

Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 14 | by Vusi Nyamazana

Commonwealth readmission will not solve Zimbabwe's problems

IT looks very likely that in the near future Zimbabwe will be readmitted into the Commonwealth, the grouping of former British colonies, boosting President Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-engagement efforts and the country's profile. But the possi…

Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:29hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Foreign-funded NGOs give conditional backing for Zimbabwe's Commonwealth bid

THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (ZHRNGO Forum), a union of 22 rights organisations whose relationship with government have been shaky for over a decade, has expressed its support for re-admission of the country into the Commonwealth, a…

Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:23hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa meets Commonwealth delegation, gives damning report on Mnangagwa

CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa met the visiting Commonwealth delegation Wednesday and highlighted the continued persecution of political opponents by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government in a development tha…

Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa rips into Mnangagwa

CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday laid bare the worsening human rights situation in the country before a Commonwealth team currently visiting to assess its suitability to be readmitted into the club.The Co…

Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's readmission to the Commonwealth could help Zimbabwe a lot

Human Rights are indivisible. Human Rights are an integral part of all human beings. Human Rights are  inalienable (no one can take them away). Human Rights are universal (for all the world). That is why they must not be trampled…

Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 21:51hrs | 9 | by Njabulo

Zimbabwe Commonwealth readmission uncertain

ZIMBABWE'S bid to rejoin the Commonwealth will not be a stroll in the park, NewsDay has heard.The visiting Commonwealth team will assess the country's eligibility using a template which includes critical areas such as rule of law, democrac…

Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:51hrs | 21 | by Staff reporterÂ§

'Win we shall! God is in it!' Chamisa proclaimed - Curse of discerning mind ossified into fat

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.…

Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 15:57hrs | 7 | by Nomusa Garikai

Will 11 SADC leaders ask Rwanda CHOGM 2022 to follow them and lower election standard to readmit Zimbabwe

Rwanda is hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2022 next week, 20 to 25 June 2022. President Mnangagwa has, no doubt, been lobbying hard for Zimbabwe to be re-admitted to the Commonwealth. The regime is notorious fo…

Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:16hrs | 28 | by Patrick Guramatunhu

Zimbabwe's Commonwealth re-admission at crossroads

A REPORT produced by the Commonwealth after observing Zimbabwe's 2018 elections will potentially scupper the country's desperate bid to rejoin the group, four years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration applied for readmissio…

Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:58hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe keen to rejoin Commonwealth

Government will prioritise rejoining the Commonwealth as a launch-pad to unlock international goodwill and sustain re-engagement milestones already realised through resumption of political dialogue with international blocs such as the Euro…

Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:09hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter

Dozens of laws should be repealed in Gambia

The Commonwealth has said dozens of discriminatory gender laws should be repealed or revised in The Gambia to guarantee equal rights for women and girls within the legal framework.A report - produced jointly by the Government of The Gambia…

Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 16:40hrs | 20 | by Stephen Jakes

Stunning finish for Zimbabwe as New Zealand are crowned champions

It was the end of an intriguing world cup at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool where eight teams showcased their last and best performances of the world cup.It started with Zimbabwe's Gems taking on the She Cranes of Uganda which was rea…

Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:50hrs | 222 | by Daniel Itai

Mnangagwa is a worse devil than Mugabe

Mnangagwa took over the presidency of Zanu PF and Zimbabwe in the background of a November 2017 coup that toppled long serving president Robert Mugabe.  The people of Zimbabwe  and the international community celebrated  the…

Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 12:55hrs | 21 | by Frazer Muzondo

While Mugabe likened Commonwealth to 'Animal Farm' ,what can be said of the African Union?

African Heads of State have now gathered for the 32nd Ordinary Summit of African Union Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia.An honest observation would be to  say a gathering of African problems to discuss nothing!Com…

Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 08:52hrs | 22 | by AT Kadada

Mnangagwa on his own after UK ditches him

BRITAIN, Zimbabwe's only most promising ally in its quest to re-join the Commonwealth and pay arrears to international financial institutions says it will not be supporting Harare following the brutal crackdown on protesters by security fo…

Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:19hrs | 1729 | by Editorial - Newsday

UK to block Harare's Commonwealth return

Britain's minister for Africa Harriett Baldwin says her country supports an extension of EU sanctions against Zimbabwe and will not back its plan to return to the Commonwealth.The frosty relationship between Zimbabwe and its former colonia…

Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:08hrs | 580 | by Business Day

Commonwealth condemn ED elections as 'biased and unfair' - what are we going to do about it?

In Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe but never rains but pours and now it is pouring cats and dogs! Ever since coming into a year ago following the ouster of Zimbabwe's former corrupt and ruthless tyrant, Robert Mugabe, Mnangagwa promised to move the c…

Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 19:06hrs | 4136 | by Patrick Guramatunhu

MDC-Alliance protests unjustifiable

The move that was taken by the MDC-Alliance supporters, early this month to demonstrate against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, (ZEC), criticising it, of failing to announce the Presidential election results at their convenience and cla…

Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 15:50hrs | 37 | by Peacemaker Zano

Letter to Commonwealth SG: Zimbabwe's rejoining is on condition it holds free election

Dear Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Ms Patricia ScotlandWe hear your office is pursuing Zimbabweâ€™s request to re-join the Commonwealth. We humbly suggest that you should not do anything regarding this matter until there is eviden…

Published: 27 May 2018 at 18:16hrs | 17 | by Wilbert Mukori, Secretary General of Zimbabwe Social Democrats

Commonwealth to save Zimbabwe?

The Commonwealth is reported to have agreed to a rescue mission for Zimbabwe at its meeting in London this week during the visit by Zimbabwe's Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutenant-General Sibusiso Moyo. The Lond…

Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:04hrs | 4 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary

'No barriers to Zimbabwe rejoining Commonwealth'

Zimbabwe was a member of the Commonwealth since its independence in 1980, but was suspended in 2002 after a diplomatic fallout between Harare and London. The country then pulled out of the Commonwealth in 2003 after its suspension was exte…

Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:06hrs | 548 | by Sifelani Tsiko

'British govt sweating to get Zimbabwe back in the Commonwealth'

In a desperate bid to give the Commonwealth some measure of respect and relevance, the British government is once again sweating to have Zimbabwe back in the 53-member club which has been accused of espousing neo-colonial interests.Accordi…

Published: 09 Nov 2013 at 19:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter

Commonwealth: An over hanging of colonialism!

The British expansionist policies of the past centuries left indelible marks of anger, hatred, a sense of injustice and marginalisation whose legacy continues to prevail in a different fashion today. The Western world strategically set-up …

Published: 02 Nov 2011 at 07:59hrs | 20 | by Hilton Munendoro

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