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Zimbabwe white farmers reject 'bad deal'
Representatives of white commercial farmers whose land was expropriated by the Zimbabwean government have rejected Treasury Bills (TBs) proposed as compensation. This comes after the government's land...Published: 03 Aug 2024 at 12:56hrs | 1304 | by Staff reporter
Marapira to officiate Manicaland inaugural tech-transfer expo
Preparations for the inaugural Manicaland Rural Development, technology advancement and knowledge transfer exhibition are at an advance stage at Mutomba Hillside Citadel in Buhera, whilst the deputy M...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 14:33hrs | 13 | by Edson Mapani in Buhera
GMB pays US$3, 29 million for grain deliveries
The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) of Zimbabwe has announced a significant payment milestone for farmers, dispersing US$3.29 million for maize and other grains delivered since April 1, 2024. Dr. Edison B...Published: 16 Jun 2024 at 09:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Farmers expect decent harvest
FARMERS are now expecting to get a decent harvest following the weakening of the El Nino phenomenon which was expected to cause severe drought in most parts of Southern Africa including Zimbabwe....Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 468 000t wheat harvest
The successful land reform paid dividends to wheat farmers this season following the attainment of a resounding record wheat harvest of 467 905 tonnes compared to 375 000 tonnes last season with farme...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe poised to be fifth largest lithium producer
Zimbabwe is poised to be the world's fifth largest primary producer of lithium by 2025 taking advantage of the several massive investments worth almost a combined $1 billion injected in the past two y...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:47hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lines up 40 000 tonnes maize exports
Zimbabwe is ready to resume grain exports this year with initial exports of 40 000 tonnes of grain to East Africa from the substantial surpluses grown by the farmers as the Second Republic's agricultu...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:39hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF surpasses 2018 set targets
Zanu-PF party has surpassed its set targets of 2018 with the agriculture sector now an US$8 billion industry this year up from US$2 billion while the mining sector boomed from a US$2,8 billion to surp...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa dedicates 120MW for winter wheat farming
With planting of the 2023 winter wheat already underway in some parts of the country, the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has pledged to provide uninterrupted electricity to farmers to al...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa offers CFU president a Ministerial post?
The Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) president, Andrew Pascoe, is set to be appointed Minister of State, a move which will ensure the smooth flowing of compensation of former farm owners, Business Times...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 10:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Malema threatens to reclaim hijacked flats in Hillbrow
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Sello Julius Malema has threatened to take over all the hijacked buildings in Johannesburg and to clean up the town accusing people who stay there of land damage. ...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 16:37hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's govt to mortgage platinum royalties to pay off farmers
ZIMBABWE will mortgage platinum mining royalties to pay US$3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was expropriated by the government, moving a step closer to resolving Robert Mugabe's...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pfumvudza targets 3,5 million Zimbabwean households
The Pfumvudza/Intwasa programme will be extended to 3,5 million households for the 2022/2023 summer cropping season, and the Government has already released $20 billion towards the goal, as efforts to...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poor harvests loom in Matebeleland provinces
THE southern region faces poor harvests and hunger amid revelations that 30 to 40% of crops have wilted due to the dry spell prevailing in most parts of the country.Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dry spell sparks drought fears
FARMER groups have warned of foods shortages in the country owing to the prolonged dry spell."The dry spell has disastrously affected farmers. Things are not looking good here Zimbabwe Commerc...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | 9 | by Staff reporter
Were MDC human rights violated in 2008?
MDC was created by the CFU (Commercial Farmers Union), capitalists and the west, so that they take power from Zanu-PF, reverse land reform and indigenization; pull the Zimbabwe National Army out of Co...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 18:23hrs | | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
Zimbabwe banks declare 99-year leases worthless
LOCAL banks are demanding personal assets, including houses as collateral to finance agriculture, amid the unresolved confusion over the bankability of 99-year leases.Banks say the risk of fin...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's fresh headache
Cash-strapped government is struggling to raise US$1.75bn to compensate former commercial white farmers who lost their farms under the land reform programme amid revelations a bid to raise funding fro...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:20hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
High hopes as crop assessment begins
THERE are expectations the 2020/2021 summer cropping season would be one of the most productive seasons post-land reform, as the Government prepares to undertake a national crop and livestock assessme...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:19hrs | | 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
95% white farmers happy with US$3,5 billion govt compensation deal
COMMERCIAL Farmers Union of Zimbabwe (CFU) president, Nick Swanepoel has dismissed reports that the US$3.5 billion Global Compensation Agreement between farmers' representative groups and government w...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:14hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Normal rainy season forecast
GOVERNMENT will begin procuring inputs this week and distribute them to farmers by the end of the month to enable them to timeously prepare for the 2019-2020 summer cropping season, which experts beli...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive boost for agriculture
Government will begin procuring inputs this week and distribute them to farmers by the end of the month to enable them to timeously prepare for the 2019-2020 summer cropping season, which experts beli...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Man urinates on Cecil John Rhodes' grave
A video of an unidentified man urinating on the grave of Zimbabwe's colonial Imperialist Cecil John Rhodes has resurfaced online. The man is seen peeing on the grave and insulting Rhodes all t...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 11:47hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US$53m compensation for displaced farmers reconfigured to RTGS$
THE US$53 million that was allocated in this year's budget to compensate white farmers, who lost farms during the chaotic land redistribution exercise of 2000, has been reconfigured to RTGS$53 million...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa owns Zuva Petroleum, says Biti
In this undated video, MDC Vice President, Tendai Biti, alleges that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the owner of Zuva Petroleum.Below is what Biti said:"The retail sector has got 2 mo...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 17:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
737 white former commercial farmers register for Zimbabwe compensation
Government has completed the registration of white former commercial farmers eligible for compensation for improvements on farms in line with the country's laws. The exercise ends tomorrow, 737 farmer...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-white farmers hail Mnangagwa
FORMER commercial farmers have praised President Mnangagwa and his Government for taking the initiative to compensate their members who lost land and property during the country's land reform programm...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's white farmers: Who will pay compensation?
In Zimbabwe, thousands of white farmers were forced from their farms, sometimes violently, between 2000 and 2001 under a government programme of land reform. The seizures were blamed for destroying Zi...Published: 16 May 2019 at 20:25hrs | | by BBC
Mnangagwa in trouble over land compensation
National Patriotic Front Jealousy Mawarire is blowing his top over revelations that former white commercial farmers might get back land as compensation than agree to take money. Commercial Far...Published: 15 May 2019 at 20:49hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe farm compensation to cost at least US$10bn'
GOVERNMENT'S decision to offer RTGS$53 million in compensation to white farmers who were dispossessed of their land has been met with mixed reactions. While some of the ex-farmers who are now in dire ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
900 white Zimbabwe farmers register for compensation
AT least 900 white former commercial farmers who lost land during the country's agrarian reform have registered for compensation as Government intensifies efforts to pay them for improvements they mad...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Whites score big against blacks - land compensation
Land is and was at the centre of all political developments for the indigenous black Zimbabwean population's pre and post independence movements. The liberation war against white minority rule's black...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 15:37hrs | | by Terence Simbi
Tiger Woods Makes One of World's Greatest Comeback Ever
It had been 11 years since Tiger Woods had last won a major tournament.At 43 years old, and having had multiple back surgeries, it appeared as though Wood's last triumph at a major would be th...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 11:37hrs | 1 | by Mthokozisi Gwizi
The case for the compensations of former white farmers
Last week Government announced the commencement of the process of identifying and registering the former white farmers, who lost land during the land reform programme, in an exercise which is being co...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 11:33hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Government starts registering white former farmers for compensation
GOVERNMENT has started identifying and registering former farm owners who lost land during the country's agrarian reform to pave way for compensation after RTGS$53 million was set aside for the exerci...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Compensation of white farmers by Zimbabwe - Statement
Press Statement on the Implementation of Compensation of Former Farm Owners by the Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe 1. As stated in the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) (Octobe...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 14:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to flesh out compensation plan for white farmers ahead of US trip
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is travelling to the United States next week, but before then he will announce that the government is ready to pay out $53 million compensation to former white land owner...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 16:32hrs | | by ZimLive
Zimbabwe farmers call for cloud seeding
Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers' Union (ZCFU) has called on Government to consider cloud seeding in the wake of the unreliable rainfall patterns characterising 2018 /19 agricultural season. Some p...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 08:33hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Farmers bemoan high bank interest rates
FARMERS are saying the interest rates being charged by banks are stifling the growth of the agricultural sector.Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers' Union (ZCFU) president Mr Wonder Chabikwa said the ...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe white farmer pay-out could favour foreigners
Foreign former landowners from Zimbabwe may get compensation before white farmers, Ben Gilpin, director of the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) has told News24.On Thursday Finance Minister Mthul...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 15:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
New farm wages announced
The National Employment Council (Agriculture) comprising the social parties that is , ZAEO, ZCFU,CFU, ZFU and Agro employer representatives on the employers side have agreed on wages of Agro sector ef...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 08:17hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa join hands with white farmers
White farmers in Zimbabwe, under the ambit of the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU), have expressed interest in working with the Government and contributing towards the success of the country's agricultu...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe wheat production to surge, but imports to continue
ZIMBABWE'S winter wheat production this year is projected to reach over 100 000 metric tonnes (MT) from about 20 000MT in 2017, due to command agriculture-related investments, an official of the Zimba...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chamisa's supporters invade results centre
MDC Alliance supporters have come to Results centre, they are angry, Say election has been stolen. Police on stand by #Harare they are not letting opposition supporters in.https://www.you...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
'My money is on the MDC'
Zimbabwe arrived at a monumental crossroads this morning as millions of citizens poured into polling stations to cast their votes in a crucial election, which seeks to break the country's relationship...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 14:35hrs | | by City Press
White farmers pin hopes on compensation talks
Zimbabwe's former commercial white farmers are hoping that a new dialogue with the government over compensation for lost properties will succeed and help send a positive message to foreign investors o...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Command Agriculture requires $1,3 billion
Zimbabwe's main agro-import substitution programme, commonly referred to as Command Agriculture, requires close to $1,3 billion to take off as the country steps up efforts to raise local production an...Published: 27 May 2018 at 10:08hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe white farmers call Britain to order
THE Commercial Farmers' Union, largely composed of white ex-farmers, says the British government should play a leading role in compensating them for losses incurred as a result of Zimbabwe's Fast-Trac...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
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