Columnist / Ben freeth
White former farmers blame Zuma, Sadc for loss of farms in Zimbabwe
Last month the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria handed down judgement in a R2 billion damages claim against South Africa by 25 dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers, some of whom were South African citizens, ...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:29hrs | 6 | by Ben Freeth
White farmers compensation gets murkier
Zimbabwe's ministers of Land and Finance issued a joint statement on the farm compensation issue on September 3, 2020, a month after the controversial signing of the Global Compensation Deed between t...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:01hrs | | by Ben Freeth
High profile Zimbabwean cleric grabs a white-owned farm
Three shell-shocked generations of the Smart family in Zimbabwe have been violently evicted from the remains of their farm in the Rusape district east of Harare by a top cleric, Bishop Trevor Manhanga...Published: 06 Jul 2017 at 19:00hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Another high profile cleric takes over a white-owned farm and evicts farm workers
Zimbabwe: Jambanja by Bishop Trevor ManhangaThree shell-shocked generations of the Smart family in Zimbabwe have been violently evicted from the remains of their farm in the Rusa...Published: 06 Jul 2017 at 07:00hrs | | by Ben Freeth
The Zimbabwe Government remains in contempt of court and continues to flout the rule of law
International rule of law expert Sir Jeffrey Jowell QC points out the Zimbabwe Government's continued contempt of court, which begs the question whether it is legal and ethical for the international c...Published: 17 May 2017 at 21:54hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Open letter to all disposessed Zimbabwean farmers
The Issue of Compensation, the Compensation Steering Committee and the Valuation Consortium (Valcon) Dear All After 17 years, the compensation i...Published: 09 May 2017 at 16:35hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Command Agriculture - the latest 'plan' to resolve Zimbabwe's hunger problem
Ever since 2001, a year after the brutal invasion of Zimbabwe's commercial farms began, the country has been dependent on vast volumes of international food aid. Thanks to the generosity of farm...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 08:46hrs | | by Ben Freeth, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean farmer remains under siege from British doctor's invaders
A Zimbabwean farmer and his wife, Phillip and Anita Rankin, remain under siege from thugs who have surrounded their farmhouse at the instigation of a British citizen, Dr Sylvester Nyatsuro (45) from N...Published: 22 Oct 2015 at 15:59hrs | | by Ben Freeth
British doctor involved in Zimbabwean farm grab
A British doctor and his wife have joined the relentless onslaught by ruling party officials on Zimbabwe's few remaining white commercial farmers and are currently involved in the invasion of a tobacc...Published: 14 Oct 2015 at 16:53hrs | | by Ben Freeth
SADC heads of state bar citizens access to illegally reconstituted regional court
Following the decision to deny the 258 million SADC citizens access to the regional court of the SADC Tribunal, taken during the 35th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government in Botswana [17-18 Au...Published: 21 Aug 2015 at 20:53hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Ongoing Centenary farm court case saga, test of new Zimbabwe constitution
The ongoing harassment via Zimbabwe's highly compromised court system of commercial farmer David Conolly, the owner of Centenary farm in the Figtree district of Matabeleland South province, is impacti...Published: 22 Jul 2015 at 11:12hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Tsvangirai's greatest gift to Zimbabwe would be to step down
Ben Freeth says Morgan Tsvangirai's greatest gift to his country would be to step down as the grandfather of the MDC-T.As Zimbabwe slides deeper into economic crisis, despondency and decay, pe...Published: 09 May 2015 at 15:28hrs | | by Ben Freeth
How to fight Zimbabwe-style land grabs
Speech by Ben Freeth to the Guide on Land Grabs in South Africa, AfriForum Conference, Pretoria, March 18 2015The Fight Using the Light for Property Ri...Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 09:33hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Stealing farms will not empower society or grow Zimbabwe economy
In the lawless world of Zimbabwean agriculture in 2014, all it takes for a man to steal someone's home, his livelihood and his crops is an "offer letter" - signed by the Minister of Agriculture, Mech...Published: 18 Sep 2014 at 11:27hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Time for a new MDC-T leader
Just over a month ago a great wave of optimism was building and sweeping across Zimbabwe. People were furtively - then later even openly - daring to hope that they would ride in on the great wave that...Published: 27 Sep 2013 at 18:03hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Why I cannot endorse Zimbabwe's new constitution
We have all waited long for Zimbabwe's new constitution. I wish to focus on a fundamental and principle part of this long and wordy document which, at 164 pages, stretches to the length of a sho...Published: 31 Jan 2013 at 09:51hrs | | by Ben Freeth
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