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Outcry over inhumane evictions
GOVERNMENT has been criticised for carrying out inhumane mass evictions in Masvingo and Chiredzi, among other areas, leaving families homeless.The latest wave of farm evictions targeting land ...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 19:24hrs | 2 | 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
Zanu-PF demands orderly evictions
Zanu-PF has moved in to save thousands of illegal settlers by demanding that Government offers them alternative land first before evicting them, the party Caucus has heard. The move comes afte...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 08:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele communal farmers evicted to pave way for shonas in Filabusi
Threats by the government to evict communal farmers in Filabusi, Matabeleland South, to allegedly pave way for those from outside the province are stoking fears of tribal clashes in the area, analysts...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Farm evictions loom in Midlands
Government has issued 500 eviction letters to flush out people who illegally resettled themselves on commercial farms thereby disrupting production and causing massive land degradation in the Midlands...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Government evicts 500 illegal farm settlers
Cabinet has approved the eviction of 500 illegal farm settlers across the country under the 100 days priority projects approved by cabinet for immediate implementation under the Ministry of Lands, Agr...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 16:31hrs | 5 | by Collen Ncube
Mnangagwa to name and shame land barons
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will name and shame land barons and multiple farm owners when the Commission of Inquiry into sale of urban and rural land completes its report.Responding to issues...Published: 13 May 2018 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Court stops farm evictions
NEARLY 400 families illegally occupying Heany Junction Farm in Umguza district, Matabeleland North got a reprieve after the High Court temporarily blocked Government from evicting them without a court...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe ordered to stop evictions
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has descended hard on First Lady Grace Mugabe and ordered her to stop her violent eviction of villagers and the hostile takeover of Arnold Farm in Mazowe fo...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Attempts to stop Mazowe farm evictions to make way for Grace Mugabe
The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has approached the High Court on behalf of 8 Mazowe villagers to interdict Ministry of Lands, Home Affairs Minisster Ignatius Chombo and Police Commiss...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Wikileaks said about Jonathan Moyo
Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has been a news attraction since he joined the Constitutional Review Commission in 1999.According to thezimbabwedaily, the draft constitution that the c...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 06:11hrs | | by thezimbabwedaily
Zim Asset is failing
"In pursuit of a new trajectory of accelerated economic growth and wealth creation, my government has formulated a new plan known as the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformati...Published: 05 Jul 2015 at 08:08hrs | | by Tendai Kwari @tendaikwari
Susan 'Mother Chinja' Tsvangirai's legacy lives on
Born: 24 April 1958 Tragically passed on: 6th March 2009 Tears may dry, but memories the wound of thinking and missing you will never heal. The...Published: 15 Mar 2015 at 20:16hrs | | by Moruti Chadya Tapiwa Diamond
Lions, elephants used in Grace Mugabe farm evictions
Parks and Wildlife Management Authority employees were yesterday busy fencing Manzou Farm as they prepare to bring in the first batch of wild animals, reportedly lions and elephants.The move ...Published: 18 Jan 2015 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farm evictions are for Grace Mugabe's benefit'
Observers say claims by Zanu-PF and Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs minister Martin Dinha that First Lady Grace Mugabe is not behind the ongoing illegal evictions of poor villagers at Manzou F...Published: 12 Jan 2015 at 17:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe defended
Zanu-PF legislator Shadreck Mashayamombe has leapt to the defence of First Lady Grace Mugabe who has been under fire for kicking out hundreds of villagers from Manzou Farm in Mazowe, apparently to pa...Published: 12 Jan 2015 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Grace Mugabe has nothing to do with farm evictions'
The First Family does not own Manzou Farm in Mazowe and has nothing to do with the eviction of illegal settlers taking place in the area, Minister of State for Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs A...Published: 10 Jan 2015 at 08:39hrs | | by Felex Share
History repeats itself
All unfolding events in Zanu Pf is it not analogous to the Uganda government under Idi Amin? Where all mechanisms got dysfunctional, where the country was dragged to absolute poverty, where the vocal ...Published: 17 Nov 2014 at 09:11hrs | | by Concerned citizen
Union threatens 'Zimbabwe-style' farm evictions in SA
Cape Town - Zimbabwe-style farm evictions would become inevitable if government proposals on land reform were not immediately implemented to stop mass farm worker evictions, the Building and Allied Wo...Published: 08 Oct 2014 at 19:40hrs | 1 | by Natasha Bezuidenhout I Cape Argus
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