By The Citizen “It is a shame that most people do not understand that we cannot simply go back to Zimbabwe, because economically and politically nothing is right there. So to hear people becoming excited about chasing us away is very concerning. Zimbabweans living and working on the North Coast on the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit
IOL Durban — A public health professional who graduated with her sixth degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal is already registered for a seventh, a Master’s in Clinical Psychology. “I am extremely proud of this great achievement,” said Dr Sabina Medal Govere who graduated with a PhD in Public Health. “The PhD journey was a
By AFP CAPE TOWN – A South African superhero who prefers fighting inequality rather than villains is going down a storm as Cape Town hosts the continent’s largest pop culture, fantasy and gaming festival. Captain South Africa, a star of Comic-Con Cape Town, is a far cry from her US counterpart. Unlike Captain America, the superheroine
By Sarah du Toit CAPE TOWN – Until he was six years old, Gibson Ncube didn’t utter a word. Today, that same boy speaks four African and three international languages and works as a lecturer at Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Department of Modern Foreign Languages. He’s considered one of the brightest rising stars in academia. Dr
By Zelda Venter for Pretoria News PRETORIA: With the intervention of the court, a child born nearly four years ago will, for the first time, officially have a name and legal standing in South Africa after bureaucratic red tape has denied him of this up to now. The parents of the child (not identified as
By Staff Reporter LEGENDARY South African gospel artist Rebecca Malope’s legacy in the music industry will be celebrated during her much-anticipated show set for the Piccadilly Banqueting Suite in Birmingham, United Kingdom this Saturday. Diaspora Insurance is one of the key partners and sponsors for the much-anticipated show which has been dubbed ‘Legendary Night in Concert Live
By moneyweb.co.za SOUTH AFRICA: Law enforcement authorities have detained a truck that was ferrying illicit cigarettes worth some R20 million on Monday, after it was stopped in Bronkhorstspruit and the driver fled the scene. The illicit cigarettes were brought through the Beitbridge border, where the consignment was falsely declared as tea leaves, the South African
By Chana Twiggs/Ebony.com NORTH CAROLINA: Authentic Southern African cuisine is not easy to come by in the United States. Originally from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Zweli Williams could not find flavours of her homeland after relocating to the States to study hospitality and tourism at North Carolina Central University 24 years ago. She and her husband Leonardo
By Staff Reporter THE London Business School has introduced a scholarship fund in honour of the late Zimbabwean business excecutive Themba Muchaneta, who died in a car accident in Wiltshire in South West England last year. Muchaneta, who passed away at the age of 40, was one of London Business School’s most successful former students.
By Staff Reporter THE annual Zim Link Up festival will kick off on Sunday in Birmingham, the United Kingdom with a star-studded line-up of some of Zimbabweans finest performers. The two-day festival, which is being sponsored by Diaspora Insurance, is headlined by the trio of Freeman, Takura, Killer T, Ex-Q, and Nutty O, among others.
By UK Correspondent Annamore suggested she had a premonition about the tragedy on the night Trust was fatally stabbed. “I was worried; I don’t know why but just I had this worried feeling inside of me.” THURSDAY’S funeral service for Trust Junior Gangata forced tears and smiles from the hundreds of people who attended the
By Bernard Chiguvare for GroundUp Melissa Gwarimba came to South Africa ten years ago from Zimbabwe. When she could not find work, she ended up living on the street in Musina, Limpopo. Her four-month-old son Panashe lives with her in a ditch under a mango tree near the Post Office. Next to the Musina Post
News24 No one has approached the Zimbabwean embassy for assistance to return home ahead of the 30 June ZEP expiry. There is a court challenge against the looming deportations of many Zimbabweans. Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa says there are opportunities back home. No Zimbabwean citizen has approached their government for assistance in being repatriated back
Great Yarmouth Mercury Everybody needs good neighbours – even robots. William Sachiti, a technology tycoon who is developing self-driving cars and helper bots for the NHS, has brought a herd of Scottish deer to his company’s headquarters at a former military base in Norfolk. The deer’s arrival is part of his plans to combine technology development
By UK Correspondent LONDON: The Harare government’s oft-repeated mantra is that ‘Zimbabwe is Open for Business’ and treasury chief, Professor Mthuli Ncube, last week led a delegation to the UK on a charm offensive aimed at attracting investment. However, while Zimbabwe is supposedly ‘Open for Business’, not enough is being done to improve the ‘ease
OXFORD University LMH alumna (Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, 2017), and former Foundation Year student, Vee Kativhu has recently been named as a Legacy Award recipient of the Diana Award. Vee is an education activist, creator of a YouTube channel with more than 260,000 subscribers, author of the book Empowered – a publication where she describes how to set your life
By Staff Reporter Dr Felicia Munjaidi, who is responsible for tourism at the embassy in London, faced challenging experiences trying to bring visitors to Zimbabwe at the height of the political stand-off between Harare and the West. Speaking at the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) England edition, Dr Munjaidi said there were moments when she was
By Staff Reporter TWO Australia-based Zimbabwean chefs Ralph Kahango and Rumbidzai “Rue” Mupedzi will feature in the latest season of the hugely popular cooking reality show MasterChef Australia which premieres on May 1. The pair who are now both based in Western Australia were born in Zimbabwe before moving to Australia at a young age.
News24 The gruesome discovery of a young mother and her 3-month old daughter who had been “slaughtered” has sent shock waves through the small settlement of Katanga, Thabong. A neighbour discovered the two bodies on Sunday 16 April when he went outside to relieve himself. The throats of the woman and the baby had been
By Germany media On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of German police television series ‘Tatort’ which stars detective Thorsten Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring, 55), the makers chose a highly explosive and topical topic. Screenwriter Julia Drache shows the sometimes depressing existence of people in Germany without papers. “The worst thing is the hopelessness in
