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Rhodesia and British citizenship: Could you have a claim to British nationality? (Partner Content) If you or your parent has a link to Rhodesia, as Zimbabwe was previously known, you may have a claim to British citizenship. Our UK nationality experts unpack the various ways you could qualify. Who can claim UK British citizenship? Up until 12 September 1923, Southern Rhodesia was treated as a foreign country with extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) by the UK government. Thereafter, Rhodesia formed part of the Crown Dominions and became an independent Commonwealth country for British nationali...

THE prospect of Alex Salmond returning to parliament has spread panic in the Holyrood chicken coop. It only took one opinion poll suggesting his new party, Alba, might deliver a handful of seats, to reveal the instincts of the Scottish political establishment: which is to shut him out by discrediting Holyrood's electoral system. The Liberal Democrats, who were co-architects of the Additional Member System back in the day, are now talking of scrapping it for the Single Transferable Vote hoping that would put Salmond back in his box. It wouldn't. Under STV, voters elect MSPs on large multi-...

Conversations must focus on production February 3, 2021 in Opinion By Andrew Lampard Driving through Zimbabwe’s once vibrant industrial hubs in Belmont (Bulawayo), Paulington (Mutare), Southerton, Graniteside, Working, Msasa (all in Harare), and elsewhere, one gets the sense that the country is burdened by white elephants. The economic crises of the last two decades left Zimbabwe’s industries in ruins, and needing a restart to achieve the government’s vision of transforming Africa’s once thriving nation into an upper middle class economy by year 2030. Needless to say, there are patch...

Cde Moton Dizzy Paul Malianga (1930-2021) Celebrating the life of liberation stalwart Chimurenga liberation struggle freedom fighter and one of the first renowned nationalists, 90-year-old Moton Malianga, died in Harare on January 15, 2021 from complications of aspiration pneumonia. A mighty hero, a steadfast strategist and key player in every twist and turn of the liberation struggle (Chimurenga) for Zimbabwe, has fallen.   He was declared a national hero, uncontested, and was laid to rest on January 20, 2021 at the Zimbabwe National Heroes Acre. Cde Malianga was born at Old Mutare Mission ...

The Saint Lucia National Reparations Committee (NRC) earlier this week co-hosted, with the Jamaica-based UWI Center for Reparations Research...