Makone meets UK minister over deportations
BIRMINGHAM- Zimbabwe’s Co-Home Affairs Minister Theresa Makone met with UK immigration minister Damian Green about the possibility of granting a deportation amnesty for failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers...
View ArticleZim woman jailed in £100k UK bedsit scam
LONDON- A Zimbabwean asylum seeker was jailed for four years by the Croydon Crown Court in the UK after being convicted of 11 counts of fraud. Thirty-two year old Rose Chimuka ran an elaborate...
View ArticleUK court to rule on Zimbabwean asylum seekers
Attempts by the British Government to force Zimbabwean asylum-seekers to return home and lie about their political allegiance to avoid persecution will be challenged in the Supreme Court today.
View ArticleActivist facing second UK deportation attempt
Concern has once again been raised for the safety of a UK based Zimbabwean activist, facing a second deportation threat by the British authorities this week. Nottingham based Trevor Chanetsa is set to...
View ArticleZimbo jailed for credit card fraud in the UK
A luxury hotel’s telephone line was diverted to a Zimbabwean conman’s mobile phone where customers’ credit card details were taken. Failed asylum-seeker Gaylord Hove, from Northampton, was found with...
View ArticleAsylum seeking Zimbo killed aspiring UK model
An asylum seeker from Zimbabwe was accused of killing a model in a head-on crash while driving the wrong way down a motorway. A court was told that Rebecca Caine, 20, suffered fatal injuries when...
View ArticleZimbo woman jailed in UK for fraud
Wolverhampton, UK - A Zimbabwean woman, living in Smethwick, who received nearly £30,000 in asylum benefits while working illegally, has been jailed for 12 months. Itai Yvonne Mambo was sentenced at...
View ArticleZimbabwean admits causing death of UK model
A Zimbabwean asylum seeker has admitted that he caused the death of an aspiring young model, when he drove the wrong way on the M62 motorway. Wilfred Museka 31, from Clayton, Manchester, had been at...
View ArticleMakosi in shock Zimbabwe visit after 7 years
Seven years after winning an asylum claim to stay in Britain, controversial former UK Big Brother contestant Makosi Musambasi was back in her native Zimbabwe over the weekend to promote her new...
View ArticleStone Age Attitude – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Results of the 2011 census in England and Wales were released this week and they show some extraordinary changes since the last stocktaking a decade earlier. People from all over the world, including...
View ArticleZimbabweans to demo against UK Home Office
Zimbabweans living in the UK are preparing for what they hope will be a big demonstration in Leeds on Monday against the UK Home Office, accusing its Border Agency of stepping up deportations to...
View ArticleZimbabwean ‘forgery’ nurse escapes UK jail
SCOTLAND - A Zimbabwean asylum seeker who used a forged residence permit to secure a job as a nurse in Glasgow has escaped a prison sentence after a judge ordered her to carry out 160 hours unpaid work...
View ArticleTsvangirai call to diaspora is misguided
I am saddened by the news that the United Kingdom Border Agencies is deporting Zimbabweans basing on the rhetoric that “Morgan Tsvangirai recommended that Zimbabweans should go back home and help...
View ArticleCanada orders deportation of Zim musician because he failed to disclose HIV...
Charles Kokanai Mzite’s life has been one of shifting fortunes, from international touring with an acclaimed African musical troupe, even performing for Oprah Winfrey, to fleeing political repression...
View ArticleZimbabweans denied refugee status in South Africa amid fears of policy change
A growing number of Zimbabwean asylum seekers in South Africa are reporting being refused refugee protection, amid fears that the decision to endorse the Zim elections has resulted in a change of...
View ArticleZimbabwean man who burned woman’s face with melted plastic cannot be deported...
A violent criminal originally from Zimbabwe who burned a woman’s face with melted plastic and scalded her with boiling water has defeated a bid to deport him from Britain because of his human rights,...
View ArticleZimbo granny to be deported from UK
A grandmother from Zimbabwe has been told she will be removed from the UK at the end of the month. Evenia Mawongera, an outspoken critic of Robert Mugabe's regime, is being detained at Yarl's Wood...
View ArticleUK deports Zimbabwean grandmother
LONDON – British immigration officials on Thursday finally deported a Zimbabwean grandmother Evenia Mawongera after they put her on a Kenya Airways flight from Heathrow Airport at 8pm.
View ArticleZimbabwe’s Ambassador Jacqueline Zwambila asks Australia for asylum
Zimbabwe's outgoing ambassador to Canberra has lashed out at the regime of President Robert Mugabe and wants a protection visa so she can stay in Australia.
View ArticleAmbassador Zwambila asylum claim personal: MDC-T
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party has issued a statement saying a decision by the country’s outgoing ambassador to Australia, Jacqueline Zwambila to claim asylum was a ‘personal’ one and not made by the...
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