WHEN does someone who does not meet the requirements of the Immigration Rules, but has a claim to family life, succeed in that claim, in circumstances where there are no children and the other party on whom they depend does … Read more
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Nehanda, Lobengula, Lumumba and Machel dictators too?
THE indisputably barbaric killing of Muammar Gaddafi last Thursday by a high-tech US drone controlled by some freaky soldier in Las Vegas aided by a French jet fighter assisted by NATO special forces on the ground has been received in … Read more
Children and UK citizenship
A NUMBER of people have had their asylum cases decided as legacy cases by the UK Border Agency. In the majority of those cases, applications could have been made a number of years ago resulting with an eventual grant of … Read more
Tsvangirai at the Deep End of his political career
NOW it is official and indisputable as it comes from the horse’s mouth. And hear this: Morgan Richard Tsvangirai’s political career is “opposing the government of Robert Mugabe”. This startling revelation which contextualises and explains Tsvangirai’s politics over the years … Read more
Key changes to UK points-based system
ON May 23, 2011, section 19 of the UK Borders Acts 2007 was brought into force with immediate effect. This section of the Act inserts section 85A into the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002. Section 85A basically states that … Read more
Barwe’s mindless sycophancy
CDE Reuuben Barwe was on ZTV news the other day accusing this writer and a few other non-resident journalists of peddling what he described – without explaining – as “anti-Zimbabwe” propaganda. For those not quite in the know, Cde Barwe’s … Read more
Edgar Tekere: the non-compliant warrior
EDGAR Tekere, is no more. Tuesday, June 7, 2011, will remain etched in the story of Zimbabwe as the exit day of one of Zimbabwe’s founding fathers. His place in Zimbabwe’s history is secure but his legacy will occupy the … Read more
Why kingdoms fall
SIR Arnold Toynbee, an Oxford-University educated English historian who taught for years at the University of London came to a most startling and foreboding conclusion sixty years ago. He wrote a twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of world … Read more
Heroes: history has longer memory than Zanu PF thinks
IF THERE was any lingering doubt in the minds of the most ardent Zanu PF zealots that their party had utterly reduced the conferment of national hero status to a mere party spectacle, Didymus Mutasa will have conclusively cleared that. The … Read more
