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Zuma insists on reforms before fresh polls

2012 May 17 | 349 Views

Harare - South African President Jacob Zuma, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) appointed mediator in the Zimbabwe crisis, insists on the adoption of an elections roadmap before Harare calls for fresh polls.President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF have been on an over-drive demanding that...

by Staff reporter

Tsvangirai pledges to reverse land reform, indigenisation - ZBC

2012 March 28 | 521 Views

Zimbabwe State Media claims that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is reported to have promised British Prime Minister David Cameron to reverse the land reform programme and the indigenisation policy if he gets financial support from London to win the anticipated general elections.Sources close to P...

by Staff reporter

MDC will fight for critical reforms before elections - Moyo

2012 February 23 | 422 Views

The MDC will push for the implementation of critical reforms before going for elections in order to guarantee that the country holds free and fair elections, the MDC National Chairperson, Lovemore Moyo has said.He made the remarks at the opening of the MDC national organising workshop.The leadership...

by Nare Msupatsila

Sanctions not stalling progress in critical Zim democratic reforms

2012 February 13 | 398 Views

Restrictive measures imposed on Robert Mugabe and his allies must NOT be removed as he is the one stalling critical democratic reforms in Zimbabwe.It is of critical importance to keep the measures in place because they have been successful and effective in piling pressure on the targeted individuals...

by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri

Zim security sector reforms a foreign agenda - Chihuri

2011 December 01 | 391 Views

POLICE Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri yesterday said calls for security sector reforms in the country by some political parties was a foreign agenda aimed at "breeding" chaos.He made the remarks during the closing ceremony of the senior officers' conference at Darwendale."We have been tagged...

by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe land reform has created peasants instead of farmers

2011 November 20 | 428 Views

PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has once again attacked Zimbabwe's land reform programme, saying it had created peasants instead of farmers since the beneficiaries have no security of tenure on the land.Addressing delegates at an Agribusiness Forum in South Africa last week, Mr Tsvangirai said whil...

by Staff reporter

We will revisit land reform: Tsvangirai

2011 October 18 | 393 Views

Tsvangirai told a South African talk radio station (702) that he and his party the MDC, will revisit the land reform when he gets into power. He said white farmers will be brought back to stabilise the agriculture sector.He also stated that Zimbabwe's indigenisation is an elitist policy and it will...

by Ndou Paul

When Mugabe addressed the issue of land he was demonised: ANCYL

2011 August 28 | 385 Views

Durban - Julius Malema is being isolated because he advocates economic freedom for black people and nationalisation of mines, the ANC Youth League's KwaZulu-Natal chairperson said on Saturday."All these investigations are not coincidental. He is isolated so that he can be silenced," provincial chair...

by Sapa

Controversial land reform programme costs Zim $12 billion

2011 August 07 | 379 Views

Zimbabwe's Dispossesed farmers say the country's controversial fast-track land reform programme has heavily weighed-down the economy, costing the nation $12 billion since it was launched in 2000, Daily News revealed.The total cost is 50 percent in excess of Zimbabwe's projected $8 billion Gross Dome...

by Taurai Mangudhla

South Africa, a second Zimbabwe if white business 'does not come around'

2011 July 18 | 394 Views

This interesting article was extracted from BussinesDay as it it. It goes like, Confederation of Black Business Organisations warns that Zimbabwe's farm invasions started 20 years after independence and with SA just three years away from the same milestone. ZIMBABWE's farm invasions started 20 yea...

by BusinessDay

Zimbabwe's main political parties fail to reach agreement on security reforms

2011 July 10 | 381 Views

Zimbabwe's three main political parties have failed to reach an agreement on the electoral roadmap and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) might be forced to intervene and whip the warring rivals into line.President Robert Mugabe's party and the two MDC formations were mandated by SADC...

by Moyo Roy

Zuma quell fears of Zimbabwe-style land grabs

2011 June 27 | 377 Views

Land reform must be conducted within the confines of the Constitution, President Jacob Zuma says."Land reform is urgent but requires careful handling and consultation, and must be conducted within the confines of the Constitution of the Republic," he said at the Congress of SA Trade Unions' (Cosatu...

by Sapa

UN Security Council needs reforms: Mnangagwa

2011 May 20 | 418 Views

Zimbabwe is preparing to join the world in commemorating the International Day of the United Nations Peacekeepers on May 29, amid calls from Defence Minister, Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa for the reformation of the UN Security Council in order to stop unilateralism of western nations in decision making. ...

by Nare Msupatsila

Proposed media reforms illegal: Shamu

2011 May 01 | 420 Views

MEDIA, Information and Publicity Minister Webster Shamu has questioned the intentions of some negotiators to the Global Political Agreement who want sweeping changes to be made to the management of the public media.In their roadmap to Zimbabwe's elections document yet to be adopted, the MDC formatio...

by Ndou Paul

We have a fresh list of land grabbers: Zimbabwe newspaper

2011 April 24 | 405 Views

The MDC-T aligned Daily News say it is in possession of a fresh list of who has grabbed what farms in the country which shows that land grabbers now own five million hectares of Zimbabwe’s best agricultural land, or a third of all the land seized from white commercial farmers and some black busin...

by Ndou Paul

SA's Zimbabwe land cases judgement reserved

2011 April 15 | 369 Views

Pretoria - Judgment was on Thursday reserved in an application by the Zimbabwe government to set aside three High Court orders granted in favour of dispossessed farmers.Disowned farmers Louis Fick, Richard Etheredge and the late Michael Campbell, assisted by civil rights group AfriForum, in February...

by Byo24News

Brics bloc urges UN reform

2011 April 14 | 379 Views

Sanya - The leaders of five of the world's major emerging powers called Thursday for UN Security Council reform to give developing nations more of a say on pressing global issues.Presidents Hu Jintao and Dmitry Medvedev of China and Russia - permanent UN Security Council members - joined fellow Bric...

by Byo24News

Zimbabwe gov to implement Wildlife-Based Land Reform Policy

2011 March 09 | 450 Views

The Zimbabwe government is now implementing the Wildlife-Based Land Reform Policy after five years of resistance from conservancy owners.This will see 59 indigenous people getting leases from the Government or sharing conservancies with white for-mer owners.The Government has promised to tackle an...

by Ndou Paul

New farmers dominate Zimbabwes tobacco sales

2011 February 17 | 382 Views

Zimbabwe's tobacco-selling season opened on Wednesday with beneficiaries of President Robert Mugabe's land reform programme forming the majority of those who brought their bundles to be sold at market.Agriculture Minister Joseph Made said the farmers who cultivate small plots were expected to deliv...

by Byo24News

Land seizures mooted in South Africa for agri villages

2011 January 13 | 432 Views

THE dreaded e-word — expropriation — looms large in the South African government’s new draft land- tenure security policy, raising fears of disruption to the economic stability of rural areas and potential threats to food security and employment expansion.The policy, released just before Chris...

by Byo24News