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Dr Masimba Mavaza The ugly face of fraud and theft manifesting in the COS nightmare in the UK has claimed many Zimbabweans and many more are in the shadows of death. Five people have been arrested in Barnsley, United Kingdom, after a 26-year-old Zimbabwean man was stabbed to death on February 21. Lazarus Makono, who […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza Racism and other longstanding inequities have prompted a global outcry against injustice. This has specifically risen due to the influx of people in diaspora communities who have been given COS visas. COS regime has brought up issues that affect diaspora populations in the UK. Issues ranging from physical abuse and emotional abuse. […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza After our article on the unfairness and intimidation in headman Chigodora’s courts, many families have requested a follow up article. This week we explain further the alleged injustices and extortion in Chief Chigodora’s court. In choosing to be adjudicators, we should set aside our own personal morality and strive to find those […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza Many people in the Diaspora have voiced their disquiet over the manner some headmen conduct themselves in the traditional courts. Zimbabwean tradition has been misrepresented by Headman Chigodora and his assessors. The assessors are so rude and disrespectful to the people who come before them for justice. They are so over excited […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza Most medical and health workers in Zimbabwe’s private hospitals or clinics have sold their hearts to the devil. They have clearly shown their love for money and have not put their patients first. If ever there is an area the devil mastered and succeeded is in private hospitals. Most private hospitals accept […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza As we approach the end of 2023, Zimbabweans in the UK look back at the year with great amusement. They have made history and some of the events have shaken the very pillars of humanity. A windfall which changed the lives of many Zimbabweans in diaspora came in the form of what […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza As Zimbabwe joins the world in the two week fight against gender-based violence, the world has coiled itself in incredibly diverse environments. This has cruelly shaken the world into realisation that gender inequality knows no boundaries. Gender equality is universal and it exposes the world to a cruel culture of oppression against […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza Some Zimbabweans have been leaving their homes to fly to the United Kingdom. There is nothing peculiar about this. The whole world is on the move, thereby reducing the world to a global village. People migrate for many reasons, ranging from security, demography and human rights to poverty and climate change. The […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza Dreams of riches are wiped out as reality sinks in. At times it takes just a week to realise that your slave master is your own brother. You might think that slavery is something you only read about in history books. Unfortunately, the sad and shocking truth is that slavery exists today […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza “Culture is the pattern of taken-for-granted assumptions about how a given collection of people should think, act, and feel as they go about their daily affairs” Culture is all socially transmitted behaviour, arts, architectures, languages, signs, symbols, ideas, beliefs, norms, traditions, rituals, etc, which is learnt and shared in a particular social […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza Many Christians have a dream to set their foot where Jesus Christ set His. It was a dream come true when Thomas Magura was awarded a trip to Jerusalem in Israel. It was a trip of a life time. We arrived in Israel on a Wednesday, our tour guide, an Israeli, came […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza Across denominations, churches serve as a liminal space between the secular and sacred; they embody religious practices and eternal symbols while operating. Being a Christian in the diaspora exposes the entanglements foreign churches have with local churches. Many Zimbabweans are shocked by the way God is worshipped in England and if he […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza Life was very good for Mr and Mrs Machaza and their four beautiful children. Machaza was a medical doctor and his wife Mitchell was a nurse. Mitchell remembers with a smile the day Dr Machaza was invited for an interview at the British High Commission in Harare. He came back home smiling […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza MARRIAGES of Zimbabweans in the Diaspora are in trouble. The divorce rate among Zimbabweans living out of the country is increasing minute after minute. The centre can’t hold any longer, and Zimbabweans in Diaspora are wondering how they can face the monster devastating their marriages in the Diaspora. The United Kingdom is […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza and Lean Chachoka Many Zimbabweans consider sending their kids back to Zimbabwe for cultural lessons, but with the way our culture is being eroded, the majority have been seriously disappointed. Children who are born from parents who are immigrants are normally called third culture generation. They live a particularly interesting life growing […]