Our list of the ten wealthiest Zimbabweans includes telecommunications entrepreneur Strive Masiyiwa, mining and transport mogul Billy Rautenbach and Lonmin CEO Ben Magara.
Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party – which has been in power since democracy in 1980 – is set to enter the country’s mining sector as a competitor in a bid to raise funds
Zimbabwean assemblies are currently facing unpaid hotel bills of USD 750 000 as well as various unpaid travel and expenses allowances for MPs.
Kallum Alexander imagines what would have happened if Tony Blair had invaded Zimbabwe in 2001.
Every year tourists from all over southern Africa and the globe descend upon the mighty Victoria Falls for a once-in-a-lifetime New Year’s celebration.
Zimbabwe’s gold sector is slowly recovering after declining sharply in the last decade after output of the precious metal reached an all-time low of 3.0 tonnes in 2008 from a peak of 29 tonnes in 1999.
As over 100 Zimbabwean prisoners have passed away in the past year from malnutrition, MPC-T legislator and shadow minister, Jessie Majome, is questioning where all the funds for Zimbabwean prisons are actually going.
South Africa’s former president says he was put under pressure to cooperate in a military invasion of Zimbabwe by the last Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, who planned to topple Robert Mugabe by force.
You are kindly invited to attend ZIMAA UK 2013 to be held this year at Holiday Inn, High Wycombe on 30 November 2013. It will be a great night that celebrates Zimbabwean arts and culture and honours the cream of the crop. A 3 course buffet dinner will be rounded off by an exciting entertainment […]
Foreign business owners in Zimbabwe have been told they must hand control of their companies over to indigenous Zimbabweans by 1 January 2014 or they will be arrested.
The son of Zimbabwe’s notorious first post-independence president Canaan Banana is being investigated for benefit fraud after being accused of claiming taxpayers’ money for a council house while living elsewhere with his wife – who won £95,000 on ‘Deal or No Deal’ in 2011.
We look at some of the top people with Zimbabwean roots who have made it big in Britain.
Over seven incredible years, Shingai Shoniwa (born in London to Zimbabwean parents) and Dan Smith have delivered their own pop with an exotic twist, and now they are back in a special gig showcasing their eclectic mix of intoxicating melodies and funky and rhythms.
Speaking in Oxford recently, MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai said major threats to Zimbabwe’s diamond mining industry include corruption, militarisation and China.
Zimbabwe’s reigning ‘Mr Ugly’, William Masvinu, has made it to the national final of this year’s pageant that celebrates ‘the other side of beauty’.
Although set in Zimbabwe’s future, the plot of this play could be set in any postcolonial, post-conflict society, particularly on the African continent where numerous self-styled ‘Black Jesus’ characters have created mayhem in the name of loyalty to their nations.
At the 2013 Zimbabwean International Travel Exchange in London, a panel promoting tourism in the country reassured those concerned that rumours of Disney rides coming to Victoria Falls were not true and insisted Zimbabwe is safe for visitors.
London’s Middle Temple will provide the perfect setting for an evening of wine, food and entertainment in aid of Zimbabwe A National Emergency, including a recital by South African flutist Marlene Verwey.
Zimbabwe. 2015. Eunice Ncube, working for the new Truth and Justice Commission, interviews Gabriel Chibamu, one of the most infamous of the old regime’s enforcers. This stunning new play receives its world premiere in London in October
A Leicester grandmother who has sung for the Queen and won the Good Neighbour Award 2013 has been detained to be deported back to Zimbabwe – and her family is worried she may be persecuted for speaking out against Robert Mugabe’s leadership.
The decaying carcasses of at least 100 elephants were found in Hwange National Park after poachers poisoned the park’s watering holes and land.
Robert Mugabe swears in new Zimbabwean cabinet full of old faces
NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel ‘We Need New Names’ has been shortlisted for the £50,000 literary award from the most ‘wonderfully’ diverse longlist
Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi unveils plans to covert Victoria Falls into an entertainment attraction to boost visitor numbers, but will it be more of a low-budget Disneyland than a Garden of Eden?
“The UN has hit a new low with naming Mugabe as a UN tourism envoy as if North Korea chairing the Conference of Disarmament and Cuba serving as vice-president of the Human Rights Council had not been enough”