Diaspora

My life is choked by new media — Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype, Google+, e-mail, voice calls, YouTube — the list goes on. I know that social media are indispensable, especially when it comes to the passing on of information…
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Last week, both President Robert Mugabe and his deputy Joice Mujuru addressed the issue of Diasporans, the former, chiding them for leaving their own country, and the latter imploring them to return and help “rebuild” Zimbabwe.
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HARARE - Acting President Joice Mujuru yesterday conceded that the economy was on a downward spiral and appealed to Zimbabweans in the Diaspora to come back home and help government fix the problem.
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With an ever increasing awareness being given to Zimbabwean issues; by people within the Diaspora, a group of motivated Zimbabweans within Edmonton Canada have begun to organize forums in which to encourage a united economic front for…
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Around Christmas time and at the beginning of every year, I have routinely sent cash to my extended family back home in Zimbabwe. That’s been the pattern since I joined the World Bank mid-career and settled in Washington DC 23 years ago.
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Since the liberation struggle days, Zimbabweans have found it difficult to unite against a common purpose. The Frontline States and the Then Organization of African Unity (OAU) did their utmost to try to get Zimbabweans to establish a…
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Having been on both sides of the fence, the Diaspora and Home, I like to think I have a fair bit to share, especially with my colleagues in the Diaspora. There are certain stereotypes on either side, which both find extremely irritating and…
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HARARE - Zimbabweans in the Diaspora must be given voting rights in the forthcoming referendum and watershed elections, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has ruled.
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WASHINGTON, 21 December 2009 (IRIN) - Zimbabweans living abroad may have to pay tax in exchange for voting rights and retaining their citizenship rights if the government embraces a proposal made by finance minister Tendai Biti in London on…
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Francistown — Tati Town police last Thursday fined four Zimbabweans after bumping into them in an unventilated freight truck along the Francistown-Maun Road near the Orapa turn off. The driver of the Massyn Moves freight truck who was…
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