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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, arising from findings by the Constituti…

Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:29hrs | 19 | 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 the government and two farming organisat…

Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:01hrs | 12 | 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, Presiding Bishop of the Pentecostal A…

Published: 06 Jul 2017 at 19:00hrs | 15 | 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 issue for jambanjad (taken over by force, often violently) commercial farms in Zimbabwe is back …

Published: 09 May 2017 at 16:35hrs | 20 | 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 August 2015], SADC Tribunal Rights Watch …

Published: 21 Aug 2015 at 20:53hrs | 8 | 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 impacting severely on his displaced farm worke…

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, people question the options under a dictator and …

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 RightsI have been given a daunting task today.  I was asked to talk to you about how …

Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 09:33hrs | 15 | 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, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development. It…

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 was forming. For some the mood was bec…

Published: 27 Sep 2013 at 18:03hrs | 3874 | 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 short novel.[i] Before doing so, it is per…

Published: 31 Jan 2013 at 09:51hrs | 12 | by Ben Freeth

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