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Mnangagwa under fire over farms title deeds
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial land tenure reforms have come under intense scrutiny amid criticism from war veterans and political observers, who argue the policy threatens to reverse Zi...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:40hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Black and White farmers rebuild Zimbabwe's agricultural ties
In a field rich with paprika plants near the heart of Zimbabwe, fourth-generation white farmer Daniel Burger and newcomer Miriam Mupambawashe - a black farmer who arrived with the land reforms of the ...Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:51hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe land reform scam - 13 years after the genocide in Matebeleland and Midlands
This article intends to capture the poignant moment when Zanu began its unpunished abuse of public office soon after Zimbabwe's independence.All along Zanu felt a false sense of achievement in...Published: 14 May 2025 at 21:00hrs | 355 | by Moses Mzila Nkalange (Ndlovu)
White and black farmers still bear the scars of Zimbabwe's land grabs
Guy Watson-Smith felt hurt and betrayed when his 5,000-hectare (12,355-acre) farm in Beatrice, in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East province, was violently invaded by three armed men in the early 2000s....Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:49hrs | 808 | by Farai Matiashe, Al Jazeera
Removing Mukuru will open Pandora's box!
Whether we are in the Diaspora or in the homeland, events unfolding in Zimbabwe will affect us all. The story of Pandora comes from the Greek poem, Theogony by Hesiod circa 700 BC. Once a...Published: 23 Feb 2025 at 18:09hrs | 2774 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwe in massive maize, wheat imports
Zimbabwe has imported 1.3 million metric tonnes of maize and wheat through the private sector to alleviate ongoing shortages caused by poor land utilisation, lack of funding, inadequate farming capaci...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 11:21hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
Mr. Mnangagwa, before talking about colonial reparations, why not pay Gukurahundi reparations first?
In a recent address at State House, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa renewed his call for former colonial powers to pay reparations to their ex-colonies, suggesting that such reparations could ...Published: 31 Oct 2024 at 21:25hrs | 462 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The real story behind Britain's withdrawal from Zimbabwe's land reform: Exposing corruption and mismanagement
AS SOUTHERN Africa approaches another 'SADC Anti-Sanctions Day,' the Zimbabwean government is once again amplifying the narrative that economic sanctions, particularly from Western countries like the ...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:37hrs | 875 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe compensates farmers over land invasions
The Zimbabwean government will this month pay an initial $20 million to foreign white and local Black farmers who lost land in farm invasions under former leader Robert Mugabe at the turn of the centu...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:34hrs | 1594 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa to host GNU dinner
In a media briefing on Wednesday, presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya outlined President Cyril Ramaphosa's programme and addressed topical issues of interest.In his address, Magwenya sa...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 20:04hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Meet the Zimbabwean who paid R8m for a SA bull
Over the weekend, Zimbabwean farmer Collins Tafireyi paid R8 million for a single bull at an auction in Mpumalanga, suddenly bringing attention to his ambition to become one of Africa's biggest pedigr...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 10:18hrs | 1127 | by Staff reporter
Robbers kill black farmer, rape two relatives
POLICE in Kwekwe, the Midlands province, have launched a manhunt for a gang of armed robbers which broke into a farmhouse and killed an 85-year-old farmer before raping his two relatives.Provi...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 10:01hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt workers march against sanctions
On Wednesday, civil servants in Harare are set to participate in a march protesting against the sanctions imposed by the United States and Europe on various leaders and associates of the Zanu-PF party...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 12:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Adam Molai's Pacific Cigarette Company forced into voluntary corporate rescue
Pacific Cigarette Company (PCC), led by local business magnate Adam Molai, has voluntarily initiated corporate rescue proceedings due to a substantial $19 million tax liability. This move comes amid a...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 16:00hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's black farmers should take agriculture seriously
Mr. Elvis Ncube, the Chief Human Resources Officer of Proton Bakers, emphasized the importance of taking agriculture seriously due to its significant contributions to economic development through the ...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 06:28hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Hundreds of white farmers return to Zimbabwe in boost for agriculture
Family after family fled along this dirt road towards Harare as they were evicted from their farms by Zimbabwean war veterans.The road through the country's prime, red-soiled land was a front ...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | 3 | by Ben Farmer
Mwonzora to compensate land reform displaced farm employees
OPPOSITION MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora says he will compensate black farm workers who lost their jobs when Zanu-PF embarked on a land reform programme if he is elected as president on August 23....Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe and Other Leftist Heroes: Progressive Endorse Tyranny
The death of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe sparked a controversial debate about leftist heroes and their legacy. Many progressive activists and intellectuals have hailed Mugabe as a liberator who ...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 11:32hrs | 15 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
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
Reza takes over Malunga prosecution as farm battle rages
Deputy Prosecutor General Michael Reza left his station in Harare on Friday to personally take charge of the prosecution of rights lawyer Siphosami Malunga and two business partners who are charged wi...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Esidakeni persecutions counterproductive'
ZAPU leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo has described the continuing wrangle around the ownership of Esidakeni farm as counter revolutionary.The wrangle is between Kershelmar Farms Private Limited (the...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 07:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
More than 260,000 on waiting list for land, says Minister
Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka has said at least 260,000 people are on the waiting list to be allocated farms.Masuka was speaking during a field day in Kwekwe, before putting unproductive...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Malunga and Esidakeni partners face arrest
Police are preparing criminal charges against prominent rights advocate Siphosami Malunga and his two business partners in an escalation of a fight over a coveted Matabeleland North farm.Polic...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 20:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Land reform under attack in Zimbabwe?
The Esidakeni Farm saga has set a dangerous precedence which could affect land reform in its entirety in Zimbabwe. Farmers with offer letters are now wondering what will happen to them should former o...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 11:44hrs | 15 | by Thabo Nkiwane
Zimbabwean farmers to cash in on cannabis global boom
Zimbabwean farmers looking to cash in on a global boom in medicinal cannabis face a litany of costs and regulatory barriers, but growers like Munyaradzi Nyanungo are betting it will boost their fortun...Published: 11 May 2022 at 11:36hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe repossessing unused land from black farmers
Zimbabwe has begun repossessing idle land from black farmers who benefitted from controversial land reforms two decades ago, Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka said Wednesday.People whose far...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 09:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs defend US$1.6bn Command Agric looting
Zanu-PF members of Parliament are defending the looting of US$1.6 billion under the Command Agriculture programme and are plotting to crucify vocal individuals, mainly from the opposition, they accuse...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Poverty is a tool to retain control
COLONIALISM is about the control by a powerful State over those perceived to be weaker societies. It takes place when one nation or group of foreign people subjugates indigenous people and their area ...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 05:15hrs | 6 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Agriculture as the trigger to industrialisation
"The sacrosanct cornerstone and golden thread upon which any successful productive economy can be built is the legal protection of private property ownership."We all know that Zimbabwe's agric...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 05:56hrs | 14 | by Vince Musewe
Dumisani Madzivanyati kick out of Esidakeni
The Deputy Sheriff on Tuesday ended the illegal occupation of Esidakeni Farm in Umguza, Matabeleland North, after evicting Dumisani Madzivanyati and his workers.Madzivanyati, a lecturer at the...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 10:04hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar
IT IS quite unfortunate that the land reform was politicised. Land resettlement was one of the main reasons for the liberation struggle. The idea was that everyone gets access to land, despite their r...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 16:17hrs | 11 | by Kudakwashe Gwabanayi
Zimbabwean young farmers lead the charge in agriculture
Agriculture in Zimbabwe is on an upswing and young people are the driving force. For example, the country is set to harvest 2.8 million tons of maize this year, triple the 2020 harvest, and making it ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 15:42hrs | 5 | by Audrey Simango
Row over farm seizure deepens as owners produce deed of title
HOLDERS of Kershelmar Farms (Pvt) Limited - which legally owns Kershelmar Farm currently at the centre of a fierce row between politicians in Matabeleland North province and its lawful property owners...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 21:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lands minister distances self from Malunga farm seizure
LANDS and Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has distanced himself from the seizure of a farm belonging to prominent human rights lawyer Siphosami Malunga and his business partners, with his juniors ...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 15:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CIO big shot behind Malunga farm grab
A TOP Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director and senior ruling Zanu-PF officials in Matabeleland North province are behind the illegal seizure of a farm belonging to a local inter...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
REDISTRIBUTION: MDC-T in dramatic U-turn…As Zanu PF vows to create 1 million jobs
DOUGLAS Mwonzora's MDC-T MPs are demanding that the Zanu PF government should allocate them farms, accusing the ruling party of partisan land redistribution that excluded them.The demand was m...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 19:30hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Give us farms' MDC Mwonzora MPs pleads with Mnangagwa's minister
MDC-T MPs Thursday took to task Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka on why the government's land distribution exercise remained partisan leaving out MDC members, especially MPs.The minister wa...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Britain desperately needs Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe
THE most outlandish aspect of Britain's past and recent actions is that despite its posturing on Zimbabwe, the former colonial power desperately needs Harare for its economic revival efforts, especial...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 05:49hrs | | by Golden Guvamatanga
US, UK will beg us for dialogue, says Zimbabwe war vets
ZANU-PF and war veterans have threatened to take drastic measures against the United States and its ally Britain that will force the two super- powers to beg for dialogue within a fortnight.Th...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim sanctions a CIA regime change agenda project
The illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe are a CIA regime change agenda project being spearheaded by the African-American USA Ambassador to Harare, Brian Nichols, with the assistance of his MDC-Alliance runn...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 10:02hrs | 3 | by David Mwanza
Who is to blame for Zimbabwe's land reform disaster?
0N August 31, the government of Zimbabwe announced that foreign white farmers settled in the country who lost land between 2000 and 2001 under the late former President Robert Mugabe's controversial l...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:29hrs | 3 | by Tafi Mhaka
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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Farm workers angry with Mnangagwa over compensation
FARM workers rendered jobless during the chaotic land reform programme after government forcibly grabbed farms from their employers, mainly white commercial farmers, have accused President Emmerson Mn...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt fails to fill gaps in compensation debate
THERE are issues in the compensation debate to which government has closed its mind and, therefore, has miserably failed to justify the decision. They include government's failure to justify compensat...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:55hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, war vets cross swords over land compensation
WAR veterans have written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government demanding that he shelves his US$3,5 billion compensation pact with white former commercial farmers, describing the move as highl...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:41hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves to stop farm seizures
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has moved to stop new farm invasions, calling them acts of indiscipline which will not be tolerated by his government.Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, s...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 14:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Uproar as Mnangagwa promises to give back land to white farmers
Zimbabweans on social media have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of reversing the gains of Independence promising to give some white farmers land. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncu...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 10:31hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa creating a bourgeoisie class
WHEN it staged the November 2017 coup, the military was very candid in its statement that the grave action was an effort to "restore Robert Mugabe's legacy", a heritage that over time had been reverse...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
High Court jails 21 black farmers for contempt of court
At least 21 former Stanely Farms (Pvt) Ltd residents in Chegutu, have been slapped with an effective one year jail term each for contempt of court after refusing to vacate the farm in defiance of a co...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
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