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Govt happy with arrears clearance progress
The Zimbabwean Government has expressed optimism over the progress and milestones achieved in reforms under the arrears clearance and debt resolution process. During a meeting with Sector Working Grou...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 08:32hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will start to pay 444 white farmers after land grabs
Zimbabwe will begin compensating White farmers whose land was seized in 2000 and led to the decimation of agriculture and the economy.The government has cleared 444 former commercial farm owne...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:09hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Over 400 ex-settlers to get compensation
In a significant development for former farm owners, over 400 individuals have been cleared for compensation under the Global Compensation Deed, aimed at addressing losses incurred during Zimbabwe's f...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 08:59hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe scores milestones on arrears clearance process
The Government of Zimbabwe has received commendations for significant progress in the implementation of reforms under the Arrears Clearance and Debt Resolution process, a vital step towards transformi...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 08:57hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in high level talks with South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol
President Mnangagwa arrived yesterday for the inaugural South Korea-Africa Summit and is set to engage in high-level talks with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol today, as Zimbabwe continues its en...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe arrears clearance, debt resolution talks resume
THE next round of high-level talks on Zimbabwe's arrears clearance and debt resolution process will be held next month, marking yet another pivotal moment in the country's quest to clear its internati...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe commits to resolve debt, arrears
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday committed to resolve Zimbabwe's long overdue debt arrears, and re-engaging with development partners and creditors to reposition the economy for sustained growth anchored...Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ups tempo on debt resolution
President Mnangagwa's scheduled engagements at the African Development Bank (AfDB)'s annual meetings in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, this week will add impetus to Zimbabwe's arrears clearance and debt resol...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hosts fourth Structured Dialogue Platform on arrears clearance and debt resolution process
Zimbabwe has concluded a fourth Structured Dialogue Platform meeting on debt clearance with creditors and development partners.Government and development partners met Thursday 11 May, to revie...Published: 15 May 2023 at 11:09hrs | 4 | by APO
AfDB facilitates 3rd Structured Dialogue Platform meeting in Harare on Zimbabwe Arrears Clearance and Debt Resolution process
HARARE - Zimbabwe moved closer to resolving its debt issues last week as it hosted the third debt and arrears clearance structured dialogue platform meeti...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 18:18hrs | 3 | by APO
Biden claims immunity from SA courts in Zimbabwe sanctions case
The US Embassy in Pretoria has issued a diplomatic note to SA claiming the Johannesburg High Court lacks jurisdiction over the US in the case brought a year ago by the Zimbabwe Anti-Sanctions Movement...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 15:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sanctions choke Zimbabwe, says AfDB chief
Economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States (US) and its Western allies remain the biggest impediment to the country's ability to clear its arrears and resolve its debt, president of t...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo seal 8 agreements
Underpinned by ambitions to engage and re-engage the international community in pursuit of socio-economic development, President Mnangagwa, is in Equatorial Guinea for high-level discussions covering ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt, white farmers head for showdown
White former commercial farmers, whose land was acquired under the land reform programme are reportedly worried about a "longer" period that the compensation process may take after Zimbabwe Government...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chissano to lead Zimbabwe re-engagement drive
ZIMBABWE has roped in the services of former Mozambican President Joachim Chissano to head a delegation that will seek to resolve the nation's long-standing impasse with its creditors and the internat...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court reverses takeover of Bippa farm
A SENIOR army official, who attempted to grab a farm belonging to an Irish farmer using a peace order, has lost the case after a Mutare magistrate dismissed his application early this month.Ma...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gauteng High Court asking the court to declare US sanctions on Zimbabwe illegal and unconstitutional
The Zimbabwe Anti-Sanctions Movement is asking the court to declare US sanctions illegal and unconstitutional.In a potentially ground-breaking international case, a group called the Zimbabwe A...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 16:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Anti Zimbabwe sanctions crusades heat up in SA
THE legal case, in which a South African-based anti-sanctions lobby group is suing United States President Joe Biden over the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (Zidera), has escalated with ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anti-sanctions crusades heat up in SA
THE legal case, in which a South African-based anti-sanctions lobby group is suing United States President Joe Biden over the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (Zidera), has escalated with ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 17:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Implement 2013 constitution
It is completely unnecessary to keep on crying of sanctions and ignoring the corruption which is bleeding the country dry.We continue unleashing the hungry, frail looking, poor rural folks to ...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 19:10hrs | | by Leonard Koni
CFU asks dispossessed farmers to compile evidence
THE Commercial Farmers' Union (CFU) has urged its members who were evicted from their farms since 2000 to bring forward photographs and videos, among other evidence, showing how they were removed from...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:03hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe defense forces (ZDF) refutes land grab allegations
Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF)has dismissed reports in some sections of the media that ZDF commander, General Philip Valerio Sibanda, invaded Goede Hoop Farm in Mazowe. In a statement yest...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 08:31hrs | | by Shelton Muchena
ZDF dismisses reports of farm invasion by commander
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces has dismissed reports in some sections of the media that ZDF commander, General Philip Valerio Sibanda, invaded Goede Hoop Farm in Mazowe. In a statement yest...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:21hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lauds thawing relations with France, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Spain
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa,, says Zimbabwe's frosty relations with key European Union (EU) countries have improved markedly ever since his government embarked on its dogged re-engagement drive with ...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 17:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe's land reform programme is non-negotiable
IN A sign that Harare may be hardening its stance towards the West, President Emmerson Mnangagwa says meaningful re-engagement with Washington and Brussels will only happen when they accept that there...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 20:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matanga, Sibanda sued for land grab
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Phillip Valerio Sibanda have been taken to court for grabbing a Mazowe farm protected under the Bilateral Investments P...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmers sue army, police chiefs
GOEDE Hoop Farm proprietors have approached the High Court for a second time seeking to rescind offer letters for land granted to Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Valerio Sibanda and police commissio...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on course to rejoin Commonwealth?
ZIMBABWE'S re-engagement efforts continue to bear fruit with the country now on course to rejoin the Commonwealth. The country is already in the second stage of the application process.In May ...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga brews shocker
The government is mulling yet another amendment to the constitution to effectively nationalise commercial farms owned by foreign nationals in Zimbabwe, barely a year after making concessions on the ma...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
EU ready to work with Mnangagwa
THE European Union (EU) has joined the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA) in re-affirming its readiness to offer more support to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 15:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF functionaries invade protected farm
ZANU-PF Masvingo provincial officials have grabbed a massive flourishing ranch in Chiredzi owned by an Italian national and ring-fenced under a Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement ...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nampak engages Govt over estates
Listed paper and packaging group, Nampak, says it is holding discussions with the Government over a possibility of getting back control of its estates, group managing director John Van Gend said in a ...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's UK re-engagement bid comes apart
ZIMBABWE'S attempts to restore normal relations with Western powers could be in jeopardy after British prime minister Boris Johnson's administration slapped sanctions on four top government officials....Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 18:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth, sanctions removal Mnangagwa's top priority
Rejoining the Commonwealth and seeking the removal of illegal economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, principally by the United States (US) and her allies, are the top priorities of the Ministry of Fo...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must fulfil promises for sanctions to go,' says sanctions denialist UK
THE BRITISH government has reiterated its readiness to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration if they fulfil their promises of reform that were made when the late former president...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube reduces taxes
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday gave struggling workers something to cheer about ahead of the festive season when he presented his 2021 National Budget in Harare - significantly easing tax thr...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
White farmers lease farms as beneficiaries give up, says Biti
MDC Alliance co-vice president Tendai Biti says a growing number of white commercial farmers are quietly returning back to their farms and leasing the land from non-productive black beneficiaries who ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa predicts agric boom
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said there will be a rapid agricultural boom that will ensure food security for citizens and spur unprecedented economic growth in the country.This comes...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Land deal eases government re-engagement efforts
FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday said the government's decision to compensate white former commercial farmers has eased the country's international engagement and re-engagement efforts...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told by USA, Nichols that Zimbabwe can rise again
THE United States of America (USA) has reiterated its desire to see President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government succeed in improving the lives of long-suffering Zimbabweans.Speaking to the...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Let's support the Global Compensation Deed agreement, says Musikavhanu
Zanu-PF Chiredzi West Member of Parliament, Farai Musikavanhu, has come out gun blazing in full support of Government decision to sign the Global Compensation Deed (GCD) saying the move demonstrates t...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:22hrs | 1 | by David Mwanza
UK, US in renewed calls for Zimbabwe reforms
THE United Kingdom (UK) and United States of America (US) have once again accentuated the need for Zimbabwe to implement sound political and economic reforms in order to address the country's crises a...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 17:13hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
UMD supports fair, just land reform programme
The Zimbabwean masses have been unequivocally sold out and abandoned by the Zanu-PF government in their quest to be legitimate owners of pieces of land in their motherland. The announcement to...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Lovemore Moyo, UMD president
War vets reassure farmers over land
WAR veterans, who played a leading role in the Land Reform Programme at the turn of the millennium, have reassured farmers to prepare their land and disregard acts of mischief from the opposition whic...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC just playing to gallery
It is laughable that a political party that was always opposed to the Land Reform Programme now claims rather incredulously that the Zanu-PF Government which restored stolen land to black Zimbabweans ...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
War vets back Mnangagwa over land
WAR VETERANS say they "strongly support" Government's recent move to compensate white former commercial farmers, black Zimbabweans and investors whose land was covered by Bilateral Investment Treaties...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
U-turn on white farmers: Mugabe turning in his grave
GOVERNMENT's dramatic turnaround to offer farms to former white farms is indicative of the Zanu-PF government's policy inconsistency, which has decimated the once flourishing agriculture sector, and i...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | | by Tinashe Kairiza
No need to panic over land?
Zimbabweans who benefited under the Land Reform Programme should not panic, but focus on improving productivity since their farms will not be repossessed, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Servi...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We erred on land, says Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF has conceded that it erred by engaging in the "chaotic" land reform exercise in 2000 where it parcelled out commercial land to its supporters without following procedure.The ruling par...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
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