Archive for Category: "Diaspora"
Jailed Zim trouser thief made £150 000
A Zimbabwean thief made over £150,000 by stealing expensive pairs of trousers from department stores, a UK court heard. Mandla Ngwenya made the huge sum by leaving stores with trousers on underneath tracksuit bottoms and conning refunds. A judge at Teesside Crown Court branded him a liar and a devious professional criminal and ordered him [...]
Minister Moyo to Address UK Conference
LONDON – A high-powered delegation of representatives from Zimbabwe’s inclusive government and the business sector will unveil the country’s Diaspora engagement policy at a conference to be held in London later this month to discuss investment, development and migration. The one-day Zimbabwe Diaspora Investment Conference, which is being hosted by the independent Zimbabwe Diaspora Development [...]
Zim Nurse Nicked in UK fake ID scandal
A trainee nurse from Zimbabwe who used forged ID documents to obtain a £19,700 bursary was caught when she was just one exam away from qualifying, a court heard. Viola Marume, aged 32, of Berrywood Road, Duston was granted the bursary to study nursing having used forged passport pages to secure it in 2006. At [...]
UK fundraiser for murdered Zimbabwean
By Mike Grienshields Young people around Slough in the United Kingdom have rallied together to celebrate the life of Tarirai Ransome Munjanja, a Zimbabwean who was murdered in a knife attack last week. Friends of the 23-year-old, also known as ‘Terry’, have organised a fundraising night in his memory and to raise awareness of knife [...]
Married UK Zim nurse had sex with rapist
British tabloid newspaper The Sun reports that a married Zimbabwean nurse Rhoda Elizabeth Makambaire has been arrested over claims she had a 4 month fling with a violent rapist in Broadmoor. Makambaire is said to have had several sex sessions with 29 year old brutal rapist Kelly Edney. They allegedly romped on the mental hospital’s [...]
Jusa video set for MTV debut
By Showbiz Correspondent Zimbabwean dancehall starlet Jusa Dementor is scaling new heights with his latest video African Air Horn Dance set to be added to the MTV play list. Speaking to SW Radio Africa’s On the Pulse with Lance Guma, Jusa said they worked on the video with a ‘serious dedicated team of producers and [...]
Controversial UK mobile directory crashes
Controversial new mobile phone directory service 118800.co.uk has crashed, after thousands of users flocked online to remove their numbers from the site, according to reports. The site, which launched last month, now displays holding page which reads service suspended while we make improvements. The firm obtained up to 16 million mobile numbers from market research [...]
UK to grant amnesty to asylum seekers
By Tom Whitehead At least 144,000 asylum seekers will be allowed to stay in Britain due to a backlog of claims. More than 63,000 of the 450,000 historic cases that were found to have slipped under the radar for years have now been told they can stay. Many are because they have been in the [...]




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