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'Zimbabwe has huge export potential in floriculture'
Zimbabwe's national trade development and promotion agency, ZimTrade, has spotlighted floriculture as a profitable and viable agricultural venture, urging farmers to diversify into flower production t...Published: 07 May 2025 at 09:21hrs | 120 | 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. Sever...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 281 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
UK tightens home care workers' visa regime
Some Zimbabwean home care workers based in the United Kingdom are facing tough times as it has become increasingly difficult to renew their immigration permits. Grosvenor Healthcare, the UK's ...Published: 14 Mar 2024 at 16:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Rising sudden death cases among newly arrived diasporans - medical expert speaks
MICHAEL Mawema had barely been in the United Kingdom (UK) for two months when he died suddenly in December last year, explained a GoFundMe appeal launched to raise funds for repatriation of his body t...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:42hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Economic gloom feeds Christmas rush to get passports to leave Zimbabwe
Atop many Christmas wish lists in economically troubled Zimbabwe is a travel document, and people are flooding the passport office this holiday season ahead of a price hike planned in the New Year....Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 08:44hrs | 11 | by Associated Press
Zimbabwe care workers abused in UK
A recent survey has highlighted that Zimbabweans, among other foreigners, are being subjected to exploitation in the United Kingdom's care work sector. The report from the United Kingdom's national he...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans among top 5 most exploited nationals in UK
A LATEST situational report by a non-profit organisation in the United Kingdom (UK) has painted a gloomy picture that reeks of massive exploitation, bordering on slavery, of migrants from developing c...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 19:30hrs | 2 | by James Muonwa
'UK-based Zimbabwean caregivers being exploited'
SOME Zimbabwean caregivers in the United Kingdom (UK) are allegedly subjected to, among other ill-treatments, unfair labour practises such as working for long hours on poor wages and sacked from work ...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
128 trafficked women return home
SENATE President Mabel Chinomona says 128 women who were victims of human trafficking have been repatriated to the country from several countries.Many Zimbabweans, especially women, have been ...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Qatar, Angola wants Zimbabwe teachers
THE demand for Zimbabwean professionals around the world continues to increase with Angola and Qatar the latest countries that have requested for teachers and other professions to work in the public s...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nurses recruited from Zimbabwe are being caught in UK 'bonded labour' schemes
Zimbabwean care workers are being tricked into coming to the UK by unscrupulous middlemen who withhold up to half their wages and force them to live in squalor.The scam, which plays on the acu...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:20hrs | 4 | by Ray Mwareya
'Mnangagwa has failed Zimbabwe workers'
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) yesterday called on the country's working class, including opposition political parties to unite in the fight to restore the dignity of workers.CiZC cha...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
In Attorney Jessie Majome and Hilma Shindondola-Mote, Meme Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela Mandela lives on!
It is barely three months when we celebrated the life of of our heroine Ma Winnie Mandela in style: we never cried our eyes out mourning Winnie Mandela; instead, we had the opportunity to reflect on h...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Fundamental difference between a German domestic worker and a Zimbabwean domestic worker
It is not so much the labour rights: it is the minimum wages and human rights that the German Domestic servants enjoy in this great country to unlimited proportions. When I was a student in 1985 at th...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabweans in UK, we are in voluntary slavery
THE way life works today, where money is mostly 97 percent debt-money, makes indentured slaves of us all. The way the world works now is to use the banks to bind humanity in voluntary slavery which is...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 07:47hrs | 5 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
UK cracks down on modern slavery in Nigeria
LONDON - The UK is cracking down on the barbaric crime of modern slavery, International Development Secretary Priti Patel announced from Nigeria today, as she called for a world free from this abhorre...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 07:10hrs | 8 | by APO
Of elections, media space, donor and mental slavery
Zimbabwe is a small country with a small population of about 15 million people, most of whom are youth, young, vibrant and energetic,but with no employment. It's a peaceful country compared to her sis...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 16:40hrs | | by Tendai Mazenge
Oliver Mtukudzi reveals his political views
When music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi performed at the One Million Man March organised by Zanu-PF last year, a section of music followers were rattled to witness what they viewed as a "sell-out" move b...Published: 04 Jun 2017 at 20:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA family want a 'nice-smelling Zimbabwean domestic' for R2,000 a month
A Plumstead family has defended its advert for a pleasant-smelling domestic worker who will be paid less than the minimum wage to work seven days a week, and who has to hand over her passport....Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 09:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Domestic work in Zimbabwe means modern slavery of the 21st Century
Case study: Sibusisiwe Dlodlo I was born in Bulilimangwe in 1955. I managed to pass standard six well with division two. I did not have the money to...Published: 02 May 2015 at 19:12hrs | 24 | by Nomazulu Thata
WMA Condemns Way of Importing Physicians by Brazil Government
Serious concerns have been raised by the World Medical Association about a new program called "Mais Medicos" (More Physicians) that is currently being rolled out in Brazil.It says the Brazilia...Published: 06 Sep 2013 at 07:05hrs | | by WMA
To be forever free!
Renewed focus on modern slavery on anniversaries of the transatlantic slave trade Every day sees visitors breaking down in tears while touring 97,0...Published: 22 Mar 2013 at 17:12hrs | 2 | by Kingsley Ighobor
Zimbabwe: Beware of Chinese Dragons
Has anyone noticed the looming beautiful artistic scenery of the Chinese dragons put up around the Heroes Acre/National Sports stadium area and at some spots around the city of Har...Published: 24 Dec 2012 at 05:04hrs | 1 | by Chris Tongogara
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