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Mnangagwa calls for repatriation of Zimbabwe skulls from British museums
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has renewed calls for the repatriation of the remains of Chimurenga war heroes from Britain, emphasizing the need for their interment in "a dignified manner." This stateme...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:27hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells Britain to apologise
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on the British government to apologize for its century-long colonial rule in Zimbabwe, which dispossessed indigenous people of their land and subjected them to ...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:17hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
UK still holding unto Zimbabwean skulls
The British Government has expressed its commitment to repatriating the skulls of Zimbabwean heroes taken to Britain during the colonial era, British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Peter Vowles said yesterday...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 08:30hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa praises Zimbabwe as freedom fighters' remains return
In a heartfelt tribute, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged Zimbabwe's significant contributions to the fight against apartheid during a ceremony on Friday, commemorating the repatria...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:24hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe war heroes' graves in Zambia, Mozambique desecrated
Recent reports have revealed a distressing situation regarding the graveyards of liberation war heroes, particularly those located in Zambia and Mozambique, which have been desecrated as farming activ...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 08:24hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hands over remains of 16 South African freedom fighters
In a poignant ceremony held at the Zimbabwe Museum of Human Sciences in Harare, the Zimbabwean government officially handed over the remains of 16 South African freedom fighters to South African autho...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 09:30hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
William Ruto visits Germany: German press rebukes his claims about labour contracts.
It does not matter how one looks at this story; it is not only shameful to Kenya: it must shame all Africans equally. Recently, President Willian Ruto was on a state visit to Germany, and was proud to...Published: 17 Sep 2024 at 22:06hrs | 794 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe to repatriate remains of SA heroes
The remains of South African freedom fighters buried in Zimbabwe during the anti-apartheid struggle are set to be repatriated to their homeland. These fallen heroes were part of the broader regional e...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 07:23hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
15 Zimbabweans who died in SA bus accident named
Zimbabwe's embassy in South Africa has released the names of 14 out of the 15 Zimbabweans who lost their lives in two separate accidents involving Mzansi Express and Tamuka cross-border buses. One vic...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 15:20hrs | 1730 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe CIO boss's daughter dies in Ireland
FIRST Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa on Friday visited the family home of Central Intelligence Organisation Director-General Ambassador Isaac Moyo to pay her condolences following the death of their eldes...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 Zimbabweans escape from South Africa's Lindela repatriation camp
SIXTY-NINE foreign nationals, among them five Zimbabweans, on Wednesday escaped from Lindela Repatriation Centre - under South Africa's Department of Home Affairs– where they were staying while awai...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt mourns 15 SA crash victims
The Government yesterday extended its condolences to families of the 15 Zimbabweans who died in a road accident when a Simlex Transport and Logistics (Pvt) Limited cross-border bus collided with a hau...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean tour guide trampled by jumbo in South Africa
A 36-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean tour guide based in neighbouring South Africa, David Kandela, was trampled to death by a charging elephant on Sunday at Gondwana Private Game Reserve.Kandela, from Kar...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:15hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mix up at South African mortuary, 2-year body swap resolved
IN September 2021, then-31-year-old Bongani Ngwendu was attacked by a vigilante group in a suspected xenophobic attack at an informal settlement in Pretoria, South Africa, where he was burnt to death ...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa grants Rahman Gumbo state-assisted funeral
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has accorded late Rahman Gumbo a state assisted funeral as Zanu-PF appeared Wednesday to have hijacked the Zimbabwe national football team and Highlanders legend's funeral...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:57hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Remittances anchor Zimbabwean economy
THE World Bank recently released global diaspora remittance statistics, which show that expatriates from low and middle-income countries sent over US$647 billion to their home countries in 2022....Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:52hrs | 9 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwean man, pregnant daughter found dead a week apart in Cape Town
The death of a 49-year-old Zimbabwean man and his 23-year-old pregnant daughter in the small Eastern Cape Town of Makhanda has sent shockwaves through the community, where police have since opened a m...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 19:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean prisoners in SA want to be paroled and repatriated
A campaign has kicked off to repatriate thousands of Zimbabwean prisoners eligible for parole.A letter sent by attorneys representing the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit Holders Association (Zepha) ...Published: 23 May 2023 at 21:22hrs | 11 | by Ciara Ryan
Are investors in African equities poised for wins amidst global turmoil?
It has been a tumultuous first quarter of 2023, and African equities have not been spared.Global markets started the year on a very positive note, with the S&P 500 up 9.0% at its peak in e...Published: 12 May 2023 at 11:17hrs | 6 | by Rami Hajjar, portfolio manager of the Allan Gray Africa ex-SA Equity Fund
Zimbabwean street vendor shot dead in SA
The body of 37-year-old Lloyd Bhebhe, shot dead while trying to sell fruit in an Alberton North business complex, was repatriated to Zimbabwe at the weekend.Activists from the African Diaspora...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:39hrs | 2 | by Kimberly Mutandiro
Zimbabwe govt ramps up anti-human trafficking efforts
What seemed to be a good escape from poverty back home in Zimbabwe quickly turned into a nightmare for Chipo* when she landed in Oman in 2022.Like many economically impoverished citizens, Chip...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mulls stiffer penalties for human traffickers
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga has revealed that the country will impose stiffer penalties for human traffickers who he accused of robbing the nation of human capital in the name of recruiting pr...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police hunt for human trafficking suspect
Police have launched a manhunt for Jacqueline Takure nee Chikukwa, 45, who is a suspect in a case of human trafficking.According to police, sometime in 2022, Takure posed as an employment agen...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:51hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Pastor faces sex worker murder charge
A Seventh Day Adventist Church (SDA) pastor based in FrancistowÂn, Botswana has been linked to the alleged murder of a suspected Zimbabwean commercial sex worker who was found dead in her house in Ma...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 20:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Car crash ends 10-day marriage
PAINFUL wails and heart-wrenching sobs filled a local mortuary hall in Bulawayo yesterday as two families that were brought together through marriage 10 days ago said their goodbyes to the couple that...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fugitive ex-killer cop repatriated back to Zimbabwe
FORMER Criminal Investigations Department (CID) officer, Jaison Muvevi, who shot and killed three people in Wedza last Friday before his arrest in Mozambique Tuesday, is now custody of the Zimbabwe Re...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 15:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tough foreign exchange regime suffocating economy
Zimbabwe's broad money supply has grown from just under ZW$364,60 billion as of September 2021 to more than ZW$1,920 trillion as of September 2022. This represents growth of over 426% over a period of...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 00:02hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Human trafficker in court
GOVERNMENT has rescued three female human trafficking victims after they were "unknowingly" transported to Oman for labour and sexual exploitation, a Harare magistrate heard yesterday.This eme...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe clamps down on illegal recruitment
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said the Government is strengthening inter-agency cooperation to deal with unscrupulous recruitment agencies using unethical means to recruit desperate job seekers and ultimate...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe optimistic of IATA re-admission
THE country's national airline, Air Zimbabwe, is optimistic of being re-admitted into the International Air Transport Association (IATA) as Government has cleared 90 percent of its debt to the interna...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:29hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe seeks suitors for long-haul aircraft
AIR Zimbabwe, the country's State-owned carrier, is courting potential takers to lease out its long-haul aircraft, as part of efforts by the national airline to consolidate its revenue base as it emer...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
4th Zimbabwean die from anti-immigrant violence in South Africa
The death toll from violent attacks on immigrants last month in Chavani village outside Elim in Limpopo has risen to four.Zimbabwe Consul General Melody Chaurura confirmed Monday that Zimbabwe...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is rising again, says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe is a giant that is now awake and ready to take its pride of place among the fast-developing countries, regardless of the sanctions imposed by the West, President Mnangagwa has said.Ad...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Policy flaws chasing Forex from the formal market
It is estimated that US$2.5 billion is circulating outside the formal banking system in Zimbabwe with households, businesses and foreign investors preferring to store their hard-earned foreign currenc...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 12:05hrs | 8 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe buys new Embraer plane
IN a move expected to boost the fleet of national airliner Air Zimbabwe, Government has bought a new state of the art Embraer ERJ-145 jet that is expected to take to the skies in the next eight weeks....Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Border jumping, smuggling between Zimbabwe, SA persist
ILLEGAL travel between Zimbabwe and South Africa has persisted, despite joint efforts to thwart the practice by both countries, it has emerged.The two governments recently launched a joint ope...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Over 500 000 Zimbabwe immigrants were forced to return home'
AN estimated half a million Zimbabwean immigrants in foreign lands were forced to return home since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest International Organisation for Migrat...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foreign banks troop to Zimbabwe forex auction
UNITED States-based multinational investment outfit JP Morgan was among global lenders that repatriated a combined US$30 million through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s forex auction system by th...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Consulate to assist in repatriating Elvis Nyathi's remains
The remains of murdered Zimbabwean national Mr Elvis Nyathi who died in a xenophobic attack in South Africa last week are set to be repatriated back home.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and In...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 17:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
100 stranded in Oman: Govt
AT least 100 Zimbabweans are stranded in Oman after being trafficked to the Middle East country on false job promises, a top government official has said.Secretary for Home Affairs, Aaron Nhep...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
PPC sees annual Zimbabwe cement sales up 25%
PPC, Africa's biggest cement company, says cement sales in Zimbabwe grew 25% year-on-year up to March, on better-than-expected demand from individual buyers and government projects.Cement sale...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean maids lured to slavery in Oman
SCORES of Zimbabwean women employed as domestic workers in Oman are being subjected to deplorable living and working conditions that include constant beatings, overwork, underpayment and forced labour...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anti-human trafficking efforts hit snag, says Minister
THE government has accused law enforcement agents in countries such as Oman of refusing to co-operate with local police to curb human trafficking.Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa told Ne...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe ready to rejoin IATA
NATIONAL airline, Air Zimbabwe, expects to rejoin the International Air Transport Association (IATA) within the next three months, which will enhance the company's prospects to expand its internationa...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe ready to rejoin IATA, leases long-haul fleet
NATIONAL airline, Air Zimbabwe, expects to rejoin the International Air Transport Association (IATA) within the next three months, which will enhance the company's prospects to expand international ro...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe evacuates 118 students from Ukraine
Zimbabwe has evacuated 118 students from Ukraine to safer places following an ongoing military operation in that country and will provide them with air tickets for their return home, Information, Publ...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Monetary Policy Analysis
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) presented its first monetary policy statement for 2022 on the 7th of February. The monetary policy comes after a 53.5% surge in foreign currency receipts from US$6.3...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 19:41hrs | 8 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwean deportees not tested for COVID-19
SOUTH African officials have revealed that not all illegal immigrants, particularly Zimbabweans deported from the neighbouring country, are tested for COVID-19 before being sent back home amid concern...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrants repatriated from SA
A South African-based Zimbabwean human rights activist Nobuhle Ajiti has assisted in the repatriation of at least 22 desperate Zimbabweans who were living on the streets.Her intervention comes...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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