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University of Cape Town give white students higher marks

University of Cape Town (UCT)'s academics in the faculty of social development have allegedly been awarding higher marks to white students while penalising black students in a perpetuation of racism and a culture of inequality. Former…

Published: 03 Aug 2025 at 21:48hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe war veterans lose court bid to block compensation of white ex-farmers

The High Court has dismissed an application by a group of war veterans seeking to block the Government from compensating white former commercial farmers whose land was repossessed during Zimbabwe's Fast-Track Land Reform Programme.The War …

Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:08hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe white former farmers start receiving compensation

The Government of Zimbabwe has begun compensating white former commercial farmers whose land was repossessed during the Land Reform Programme, marking a pivotal step in the country's efforts to resolve a decades-old issue and accelerate it…

Published: 10 Apr 2025 at 09:01hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe begins compensation of BIPPA protected ex-white farmers

Finance and Investment Promotion Minister Mthuli Ncube has announced the commencement of compensation payments to farmers under a US$20 million facility allocated in the 2024 National Budget. The payments are targeted at farmers and invest…

Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 06:41hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe fails to pay white farmers who had land expropriated

White commercial growers in Zimbabwe said that the government has failed to pay part of $331 million in compensation to farmers for expropriating their land but reimbursed others who weren't part of the deal.In a joint letter to the financ…

Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 10:08hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter

White teachers at Pretoria High School don't greet black colleagues

A recent investigation commissioned by the Gauteng Education Department has uncovered discriminatory practices at Pretoria High School for Girls, where some white teachers reportedly fail to greet their black colleagues, allegedly assuming…

Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 11:36hrs | 2023 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe will start to pay 444 white farmers after land grabs

Zimbabwe will begin compensating White farmers whose land was seized in 2000 and led to the decimation of agriculture and the economy.The government has cleared 444 former commercial farm owners to receive payment for improvements made on …

Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:09hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter

Hundreds of white farmers return to Zimbabwe in boost for agriculture

Family after family fled along this dirt road towards Harare as they were evicted from their farms by Zimbabwean war veterans.The road through the country's prime, red-soiled land was a front line in Robert Mugabe's policy of seizing white…

Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | 15 | by Ben Farmer

Harvard accused of favouring mostly white students

Harvard's practice of granting preference to undergraduate applicants with family ties to the elite college is facing a legal challenge.Advocacy groups have petitioned the government to stop the Ivy League university's legacy admissions.Th…

Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 08:53hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe debt clearance tied to farmers' compensation and credible polls

THE African Development Bank has moved to fast-track Zimbabwe's $3.5 billion compensation to white farmers whose land was seized under former president Robert Mugabe's reforms. The bank is leading efforts to clear Zimbabwe's crippling debt…

Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:40hrs | 15 | by Zeenat Hansrod

White skin, black masks!

Two developments caught my attention this week. One is a Brenthurst Foundation scholarship invitation to young Africans intent on pursuing postgraduate studies.Brenthurst Foundation is owned and financed by the Oppenheimers, and recently c…

Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:08hrs | 15 | by Jamwanda

Bulawayo's Renkini a white elephant as intercity buses shun it

Renkini Bus Terminus was, for years, the nerve centre for Bulawayo's transport system with people intending to travel to other cities and towns trooping to the station to board buses.Many others were dropped off at the terminus as well but…

Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:39hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter

Why I boycotted Queen Elizabeth II

I WAS a Lower Sixth student at Prince Edward School in Harare, Zimbabwe, when Queen Elizabeth II visited our school in October 1991. Zimbabwe was hosting that year's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the queen â€” as the head of…

Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:07hrs | 10 | by Tafi Mhaka

Kirsty Coventry under fire over all-white hockey team

YOUTH, Sports, Arts and Recreation minister Kirsty Coventry has come under fire from stakeholders following the selection of all white senior women's hockey team to represent Zimbabwe in the Africa Cup of Nations in Accra, Ghana.The tourna…

Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:49hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter

Where are the white players in Zimbabwe football?

 COULD it be a true representation of the country's demographics, could it have something to do with negative perception especially on the financial side, could it be deep rooted segregation or its simply lack of talent on their part?…

Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:42hrs | 28 | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo

White former farmers blame Zuma, Sadc for loss of farms in Zimbabwe

Last month the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria handed down judgement in a R2 billion damages claim against South Africa by 25 dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers, some of whom were South African citizens, arising from findings by the Constituti…

Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:29hrs | 19 | by Ben Freeth

White farmers compensation gets murkier

Zimbabwe's ministers of Land and Finance issued a joint statement on the farm compensation issue on September 3, 2020, a month after the controversial signing of the Global Compensation Deed between the government and two farming organisat…

Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:01hrs | 12 | by Ben Freeth

Mnangagwa's govt fails to fill gaps in compensation debate

THERE are issues in the compensation debate to which government has closed its mind and, therefore, has miserably failed to justify the decision. They include government's failure to justify compensation in the first place, except by asser…

Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:55hrs | 11 | by Jonathan Maphenduka

Zuma accuses Ramaphosa of seeking 'white validation'

Former president Jacob Zuma has written to his successor President Cyril Ramaphosa, taking him to task for the latter's letter to party members condemning corruption. In a letter seen by News24, Zuma said Ramaphosa's letter was fundamental…

Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 20:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

An abiding tortoise of White House goons

Politics, as an existential science, can be characteristically hot, heavy and heady.In its very extreme form, politics can be similar to religious fundamentalism, where it becomes a matter of life and death.It is high-octane stuff that can…

Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:18hrs | 148 | by Bishop Lazi

MDC and the colonial ghost of whiteness

David Coltart, the self-confessed former British South African Police (BSAP) member, who authored a rehashed moribund autobiography, recently rebounded as treasurer of the MDC at the party's congress held in Gweru.It is almost 19 years sin…

Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:16hrs | 17 | by Ranga Mataire

Zimbabwe's white farmers: Who will pay compensation?

In Zimbabwe, thousands of white farmers were forced from their farms, sometimes violently, between 2000 and 2001 under a government programme of land reform. The seizures were blamed for destroying Zimbabwe's economy, and ruined relations …

Published: 16 May 2019 at 20:25hrs | 13 | by BBC

Zimbabwe's white farmers 'getting poorer, sicker' as they await govt compensation

WHITE farmers in Zimbabwe, who were evicted from their properties years ago, have been experiencing a drop in food production, and their hope to get government financial help to compensate any losses caused by land seizures is slowly dimmi…

Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:03hrs | 17 | by newsweek

Zimbabwe not white man's burden

We are on the edge of an epoch in Zimbabwe.The nation could experience a new normal, so to speak, as the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has only a matter of days to validate President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa's win, as announced by the Zi…

Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:21hrs | 11 | by Conway Tutani

Mnangagwa meets white Zimbabweans - report

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for collective efforts by all Zimbabweans regardless of colour or race in solving the challenges bedevilling the country.President Mnangagwa made the remarks while addressing multitudes of minority g…

Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 16:30hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

SA white party support land redistribution

The Democratic Alliance announced on Monday that it would support land restitution and redistribution."We support efforts to undo the terrible legacy of forced land dispossession, which still reverberates in our society today," DA leader M…

Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 14:45hrs | 839 | by Staf reporter

Ginimbi brings '30 Billion Concert'

FLAMBOYANT business tycoon, Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure, has taken it upon himself to ensure that slippery Nigerian superstar, Davido, who last year stood up Zimbabwean fans on more than one occasion, finally fulfils his assignment in Harar…

Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:16hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's lease somersault not enough

GOVERNMENT'S recent policy shift to grant the few remaining white farmers in Zimbabwe with 99-year land leases does not address the inherent structural flaws of the legal instrument, which still remains unbankable and untransferable, disco…

Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 07:27hrs | 1582 | by Tinashe Kairiza

White Zimbabwean farmers ordered to drop court cases

NewZimbabwe.com reported that all white farmers who have taken the government to court over disputed farm seizures have been told to withdraw their cases and instead engage the State on how to resolve the wrangles, a government minister ha…

Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 08:41hrs | 2853 | by Staff reporter

White farmers fight eviction

TWO white commercial farmers in Marondera have taken the government to court contesting the cancellation of their land offer letters and transfer of their property to an indigenous farmer.In their High Court challenge, David Alexander Tipp…

Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 06:56hrs | 1479 | by Staff reporter

Zuma denounces white monopoly economic power

South African President Jacob Zuma reiterated a call on Monday for radical reforms to shift the balance of "monopoly" economic power away from whites who dominated under apartheid, saying without such change blacks would stay poor for a lo…

Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 10:45hrs | 502 | by Reuters

Muchechetere confiscates white farmer's property

Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings'  (ZBH) chief executive officer Happison Muchechetere has been dragged to the High Court by a white farmer, who accuses him of confiscating his farm equipment.In the application, Stodart Brothers …

Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 14:01hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

'Mohadi behind white farmer's troubles'

A prominent Beitbridge farmer has accused State Security minister Kembo Mohadi of orchestrating his persecution after the authorities stepped up pressure to force him out of his wildlife conservancy.Ian Ferguson, who has been battling to s…

Published: 24 Sep 2017 at 12:02hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa's 'white' campaign team causes problems in ANC

Racial tension is apparently threatening to scupper Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa's campaign to become the next ANC leader. The Sunday Times reported at the weekend that all the members of Ramaphosa's campaign management team responsibl…

Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 08:33hrs | 1782 | by Staff reporter

High profile Zimbabwean cleric grabs a white-owned farm

Three shell-shocked generations of the Smart family in Zimbabwe have been violently evicted from the remains of their farm in the Rusape district east of Harare by a top cleric, Bishop Trevor Manhanga, Presiding Bishop of the Pentecostal A…

Published: 06 Jul 2017 at 19:00hrs | 15 | by Ben Freeth

White tiger coat caused by single pigment gene mutation: Research

The spectacular white coats of white tigers are caused by a single change in a known pigment gene, a new study has found.The research, to be published in the June issue of Current Biology, might help end decades of speculation that the tra…

Published: 29 May 2013 at 07:43hrs | 516 | by Staff Reporter

The paradox of the 'white African' - when white is black and white

"I move that the House take note that tomorrow (Thursday) I will move a motion to nationalise and prescribe all Marange diamond fields."The year was 2011; the month was October, slightly over the first week of October. The speaker was Eddi…

Published: 22 Jul 2012 at 10:44hrs | 18 | by Nathaniel Manheru

Beitbridge White farmers strike again

Two Beitbridge White farmers George Watson (30) and his wife Elaine Du Plooy (25) reportedly smashed workers' huts before setting them ablaze to punish them for failing to drive stray cattle from nearby villages out of their farm The incid…

Published: 07 Jun 2011 at 22:07hrs | 4 | by Matthews Estell

Mixed marriage dynamicsâˆšÃ‡

The number of interracial marriages is increasing rapidly among Zimbabweans. When people shipped themselves abroad, records indicate that the number of interracial marriages increased at an exponential rate. This trend reflects the changes…

Published: 12 Jan 2011 at 12:09hrs | 39 | by Byo24News

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Zicosu students seek dialogue with Mnangagwa

South Africa plans toll fees at Beitbridge Border

4 Beitbridge customs agents arrested over Zimra fraud

Jeys Marabini to thrill Bulawayo fans with 'Umjolo' live performance

MSU students arrested for opposing Mnangagwa term extension

Robert Mugabe Jnr granted US$300 bail

Trio aces new charges in Bulawayo break-ins

3 missing Kuwadzana children found dead in car boot

Mliswa accused of launching a sponsored hatchet job

US govt shutdown affects Zimbabweans

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Zimbabwe banker's diploma gains UK accreditation

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Zimbabwe's mixed weather explained

RBZ, Ministry collide over platinum miners' payments

Zanu-PF Conference to be dominated by factionalism

2 NetOne executives on the run

Councillors outraged by directive to allocate stands to MPs

4 killed in Harare - Shamva road accident

SA-based medical expert Dr Raksha Balbadhur to grace Bulawayo spiritual event

JR Goddard conferred with Honorary PhD in Civil and Water Engineering

Zimbabwe comes second at Enactus World Cup

Mliswa dismisses reports that he fled Zimbabwe for SA

Busisa Moyo conferred with Honorary Doctorate

Sekuru Nyangatayani Invites Sangomas and Africans to Glendale Bira Ceremony

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