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Chilonga villagers wary of govt 'reorganisation
The Zimbabwean government has reaffirmed its commitment to the controversial Chilonga lucerne project, clarifying that the evictions of over 1,000 families remain an integral part of its plans, now fr...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 14:04hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Chilonga villagers turn to ConCourt
CHILONGA villagers in Chiredzi have approached the Constitution Court (ConCourt) to stop their imminent eviction from their ancestral land to pave way for an irrigation project.In January, Hig...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets greenlight to evict Chilonga villagers
THE fate of 12 000 villagers in Chilonga, Chiredzi, has been effectively sealed after the High Court on Thursday ruled there was "finite wisdom" in gave President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration's...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:51hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
High Court reserves judgment in Chilonga villagers case
HIGH Court judges yesterday reserved judgment on an application by Chilonga villagers who were challenging provisions of the Communal Lands Act arguing that it did not respect African traditional valu...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves to douse Chilonga flames
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has directed that no villagers should be displaced by an irrigation project to be implemented by government in the Chilonga area of Chiredzi. Last month, the State...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CNRG calls for Dendairy to publicly renounce its interest in Chilonga
THE Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) says the threat of evictions remains for Chilonga villagers despite government repealing Statutory Instrument (SI) 50/2021 which had legalised their d...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Displaced people risk losing voting rights'
PEOPLE displaced from their original wards may fail to participate in elections if there are no proper voter education campaigns conscientising them on the need to update their voter registration stat...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt dangles compensation to Chilonga villagers
GOVERNMENT yesterday in a volte-face agreed to compensate Chilonga villagers in Chiredzi district set to be evicted to make way for an irrigation scheme.This was revealed in Statutory Instrume...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 06:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
State agents swarm Chilonga
STATE security agents have reportedly deployed heavily in Chilonga, Chiredzi district amid fears that they want to flush out strangers and contain the flow of information on government activities in t...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chilonga villagers plot resistance
CHILONGA villagers, whose impending eviction from their ancestral communal lands has caused a major outcry, have vowed to stay put, accusing government of toying with them.Some of the villager...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
If Zim govt calls Dendairy's displacement of people from their ancestral land 'investment', so can we say Rhodes was an 'investo
To say I was shocked by the lame, disingenuous, and shamefully ridiculous attempts by the Zimbabwe government to sanitize the septic, cruel, and repulsive displacement of over 12,000 Chilonga villager...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 12:23hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's govt plots backdoor Chiredzi evictions
THE Zanu-PF government, stung by public outcry and a recent court ruling which annulled its planned mass eviction of Chilonga villagers in Chiredzi, has come up with a subtle ploy to pursue the matter...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Evictions fiasco rocks Mnangagwa govt
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government was forced to hold crisis meetings after a controversial edict paving the way for the eviction of thousands of Chiredzi villagers caused an uproar.The...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 13:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF and it's Vile Chiredzi Evacuations.
At a time when a government is supposed to stand in solidarity with the people that they claim voted them into office and assisting them during these covid19 infested times. The Emmerson Mnangagwa led...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 12:25hrs | 1 | by Prince Njagu
Chamisa's MDC calls for Dendairy product boycott
MDC Alliance is calling on Zimbabweans to boycott Dendairy (Pvt) Limited products to protest the company's bid to dislodge some 12 500 Chilonga villagers from their Chiredzi ancestral land to make way...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 18:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's associates under fire from the public over Chilonga land seizure
OUTRAGE is growing over government's plan to displace over 12 500 villagers in the Chilonga area of Chiredzi to accommodate President Emmerson Mnangagwa's cronies at Dendairy.Darren Coetzee, D...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:04hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Chilonga villagers challenge eviction
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) has filed an urgent chamber application at the Masvingo High Court seeking to interdict government from going ahead with its plan to displace more tha...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt should not worship capital
THE proposed relocation of Chilonga villagers in Chiredzi district to pave way for a private farming project has attracted a lot of debate given that they are being moved from their ancestral land aga...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Chief Chiduku
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