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Zanu-PF councillor grabs farm, jailed

A Zanu-PF councillor in Bulawayo has spent nearly a month behind bars after defying a series of court orders to vacate a disputed farmhouse in Umguza district, Matabeleland North.Ward 1 councillor Josiah Mutangi was jailed last month after…

Published: 22 Aug 2025 at 13:15hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter

Farm manager convicted of stealing 500 bricks

A farm manager from Mhangura has been convicted of theft of trust property after stealing 500 heavy-duty bricks that had been left in his custody.Warren Mukondiwa (58) appeared before the Mhangura Magistrates' Court, where he was sentenced…

Published: 20 Aug 2025 at 09:39hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter

21 villagers in court over Fairfield farm invasion

Twenty-one villagers who have been illegally settled at Fairfield Farm in Headlands appeared in court this week, charged with defying a High Court order directing them to vacate the property.The accused, represented by Mr Tendai Bvuma of B…

Published: 19 Aug 2025 at 19:04hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Fresh land invasions rock Zvimba farm

A fresh wave of land invasions has hit Warwick Farm, a once-thriving agricultural estate on the shores of Lake Chivero in Zvimba district, with politically connected land barons accused of pegging and selling residential stands to desperat…

Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 10:06hrs | 173 | by Staff rporter

Mugabe minister's farm assets auctioned over $750,000 debt

Farming equipment and livestock belonging to former Water Resources minister Munacho Mutezo are set to be auctioned today in Odzi, Manicaland, as part of efforts to recover a US$750,000 debt owed to his former business partner.The auction,…

Published: 15 Aug 2025 at 22:19hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter

Jiri praises farmers at disputed Springs farm

Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development permanent secretary Obert Jiri last week officiated at a field day at the hotly contested Springs Farm in Mashonaland East Province, where the government has been embro…

Published: 05 Aug 2025 at 17:46hrs | 482 | by Staff reporter

Esidakeni farm dispute spills to Supreme Court

The long-running Esidakeni Farm ownership dispute has taken a fresh turn after four government-allotted beneficiaries filed an appeal at the Supreme Court, challenging a recent High Court decision which nullified their offer letters and de…

Published: 22 Jul 2025 at 18:00hrs | 823 | by Staff reporter

Storm brews over 1 000ha Mashonaland farm

A storm is brewing in Zimbabwe's agricultural sector after the government allocated a farm to businessman Billy Rautenbach, displacing farmers who had been allocated and developed the land during the controversial land reform programme. Th…

Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 07:40hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter

Expropriation of Malunga farm unlawful and unconstitutional

The High Court in Bulawayo has delivered a landmark judgment declaring the government's expropriation of land owned by prominent human rights lawyer Siphosami Malunga and his business partners Zephaniah Dlamini and Charles Moyo as unlawful…

Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 11:06hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter

Jokonya's farm invaders to remain in custody

Eight men accused of criminal trespassing at the farm of the late national hero and diplomat, Tichaona Jokonya, will remain in custody for two more nights after a Harare magistrate postponed their bail hearing to Wednesday.The suspects, wh…

Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 16:06hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter

Thieves steal US$7,000 tobacco at farm

Police in Rusape have launched a manhunt for five armed robbers who attacked Riplemade Farm on Monday night and made off with 12 tobacco bales valued at US$7,039.The robbery, which occurred around 10pm, left a farm security guard injured a…

Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 18:52hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter

19 arrested over Chinhoyi farm invasion

Chinhoyi magistrate Nyasha Marufu on Friday granted bail to nineteen individuals charged with unlawfully occupying gazetted land at Dandrennam Farm in Lions' Den. Each accused was released on bail of US$20 and ordered to remain at their re…

Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 10:57hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter

Land dispute and murder allegations stir tensions at Dandrennam farm

A storm is brewing at Dandrennam Farm in Lions Den, Mashonaland West Province, as a long-standing land dispute intensifies amid revived murder accusations and alleged political interference. The 578.54-hectare farm, strategically nestled b…

Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:39hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF activists ordered off invaded farm

Thomas Chidzomba, the Zanu-PF losing candidate for the Chinhoyi constituency in the August 2023 elections, has been ordered to vacate a farm he allegedly invaded along with three other party members. Chidzomba, together with Elington Chane…

Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 15:14hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter

No rally at Mnangagwa's Precabe farm, says Zanu-PF

ZANU-PF has firmly rejected claims of a star-studded rally planned for President Mnangagwa's Precabe Farm, clarifying that the only scheduled event involves senior party leadership rather than the general public.In a statement posted on X …

Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:06hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter

Fresh wave of farm invasions in Matebeleland

The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has strongly condemned what it describes as a disturbing resurgence of illegal farm invasions in Matebeleland, accusing ruling ZANU-PF officials and state security agents of orchestrating land grabs in th…

Published: 21 May 2025 at 12:39hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe farm invaders evicted

After months of failed attempts, the deputy sheriff on Friday successfully carried out evictions and demolitions at Cloverdale Farm, Goromonzi, displacing dozens of families who had invaded the land.The 250-hectare property, owned by Glori…

Published: 18 May 2025 at 11:56hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter

Midnight raid exposes backyard dagga farm in Gwabalanda

A Bulawayo man's secret cannabis cultivation scheme came crashing down in the early hours of Friday morning after a midnight tip-off led police straight to a thriving backyard dagga farm in Gwabalanda.Michael Silas (23) was arrested on May…

Published: 17 May 2025 at 12:03hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter

Farmers' group rejects compensation deal for past land seizures

A group representing many of the white farmers whose land was seized during Zimbabwe's land reforms over two decades ago has rejected a compensation deal and said it wants to reopen negotiations with the government.The group has criticised…

Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 09:50hrs | 1147 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's crocodile farming industry sets global standard

ZIMBABWE'S crocodile farming sector has set a new international benchmark with the commissioning of a state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant at Padenga Agribusiness's Kariba facility. The US$1.2 million treatment plant is designed to …

Published: 22 Mar 2025 at 12:14hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter

Illegal miners invade Rhodes Estate in Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwean Government has deployed security and environmental agencies to the Rhodes Estate in the Matopos National Park following growing concerns over illegal gold mining activities that are threatening livestock production at one of…

Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 06:53hrs | 368 | by Staff reporter

Farm tour signals Zanu-PF's strategy for Mnangagwa's term extension

The recent tour of Precabe Farm by legislators is being interpreted by political observers as an effort to show loyalty to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and to pledge their readiness to facilitate his term extension.The push for Mnangagwa's…

Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 14:16hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter

Push to extend Mnangagwa's tenure undemocratic

The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has strongly criticized the proposed extension of the presidential term from 2028 to 2030, calling the move undemocratic and a threat to electoral integrity.The proposal, driven by Zanu-PF to ex…

Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 14:15hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa farm tour sparks outrage and political backlash

A recent field tour of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Precabe farm by a faction of opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmakers has sparked a wave of outrage and condemnation across the political spectrum in Zimbabwe. The even…

Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:27hrs | 1937 | by Staff reporter

Police arrest 1 of 6 armed robbers in farm heist

In a breakthrough following a violent armed robbery at Pircy Farm in Goromonzi, police have arrested one of the six suspects captured on CCTV as they ransacked the property, escaping with US$3,000 and valuables worth an estimated US$10,000…

Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 11:39hrs | 1707 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe army to evict land invaders

In a bid to address the growing issue of illegal settlements on farms, the Zimbabwean government has enlisted the assistance of the army to support the police in evicting land barons responsible for creating unlawful settlements across the…

Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 07:04hrs | 19691 | by Staff reporter

Chiyangwa farm battle turns nasty

More than 150 families at Old Citrus Farm, located on the outskirts of Chinhoyi, find themselves homeless after their homes and belongings were destroyed amid a contentious land ownership dispute. The residents, primarily settlers who move…

Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:20hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter

War veterans reject Mnangagwa's third term

In a significant political development, war veterans have publicly declared their opposition to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's push for a third term as part of the ED2030 campaign, signaling widening divisions within the ruling ZANU-PF par…

Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 13:41hrs | 2786 | by Staff reporter

Esidakeni Farm case struck off the roll

The Esidakeni Farm case involving Siphosami Malunga, Zephania Dlamini, Charles Moyo, and the State has been struck off the roll by High Court Judge Justice Bongani Ndlovu, who noted that the case file was disorganized.Justice Ndlovu direct…

Published: 19 May 2024 at 10:35hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa a good farmer but then...

While Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Precabe Farm in Sherwood, near Kwekwe, is doing well and is often used to showcase isolated success stories of the state-sponsored chaotic land reform programme, it is also true that powerful…

Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 16:29hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF MP ordered to vacate farm

KAROI magistrate Moreblessing Makati on Friday fined Zanu-PF Hurungwe East legislator Chenjerai Kangausaru and ordered him to vacate Chitonga Farm he had occupied using forged documents. Passing the long-awaited sentence after convict…

Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:53hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe fights illegal settlers on state land 'sold' after being repossessed from white farmers

Two decades after a disastrous attempt at land reform, which drove out more than 400 white commercial farmers, the Zimbabwean government is fighting illegal settlers on state land handed out by traditional leaders, land barons and corrupt …

Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt sets new US$ fees for lost documents

GOVERNMENT has introduced a basket of new fees exclusively pegged in United States dollars for citizenship application or replacement of lost identity documents.According to Statutory Instrument (SI) 8 of 2024 titled Citizenship (Amendment…

Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:00hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Farm invaders fined US$50

TWENTY-FOUR villagers have been convicted and fined US$50 each for invading a farm owned by the late MDC politician, Roy Bennet.They were arrested two weeks ago and appeared before Karoi magistrate Johane Mkwesha who also slapped them with…

Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

War vets in trouble for invading farm

A group of war veterans from Mashonaland West are facing prosecution after invading a farm owned by the son of Zimbabwe's former ambassador to the United Nations Tirivafi Kangai.The former liberation war fighters fronting the Zvimba East V…

Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:42hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter

Man steals from MP's farm

Three individuals appeared before a Kezi magistrate after they were apprehended for the theft of scrap metal from a farm owned by a Member of Parliament's spouse.Shelton Nyathi (20), Thulani Ngwenya (23), and Samuel Mugwagwa (37) stood bef…

Published: 21 Oct 2023 at 21:01hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

'Mnangagwa after my farm,' says Kasukuwere

SELF-EXILED former Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere claims President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is out to grab his ConCorpia Farm in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central province, following a foiled bid to contest fo…

Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 06:33hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter

Esidakeni challenge 'not abandoned'

A court application challenging the government's planned seizure of Esidakeni Estate, a coveted former dairy farm in Matabeleland North, is still pending before the courts and has not been "abandoned", the Registrar of the High Court has c…

Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:48hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe-born Italian rugby star recounts farm invasions horror

Sebastian Negri still remembers the gunshots. A staccato volley piercing the still Zimbabwean night. He was eight years old when a violent gang of war veterans came to seize his family farm. Around the turn of the millennium, Robert Mugabe…

Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF activists grab sugar plantation from white farmer

Two Zanu-PF activists have seized a sugar plantation belonging to a white commercial farmer in Mwenezi, Masvingo province, leaving the owners and scores of workers and their children homeless.Webster Cuthbert Muzara and Emmanuel Mandipa Ch…

Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 16:02hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Fresh Zimbabwe farm invasions loom

RULING Zanu-PF members have formed a shadowy group dubbed "Land for Economic Development (ED)" to fast-track parcelling out of "unutilised" land to party youths ahead of next year's crunch polls.Land for ED is one of the several Zanu-PF as…

Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:39hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter

Mwonzora pampered with vast farm, Mercedes-Benz

MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has taken delivery of a brand new Mercedes-Benz from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, adding to a farm he was also given for free early this year in what is seen as a reward for his role in the grand…

Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:46hrs | 9754 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa consoles Esigodini veld fire victims' families deniess them state assistance

President Mnangagwa has consoled the families of 10 people who died while trying to put out a veld fire in a farm in Matabeleland South Province.The tragedy occurred at lot 43 farm belonging to Mr Abel Moyo on Monday. The veld fire which s…

Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 19:39hrs | 716 | by Staff reporter

3,000 hectares of wheat in Mat North

FARMERS in Matabeleland North have increased their wheat hectarage from last year's 950 hectares to about 3 000 hectares as the province moves towards enhancing the country's food security and attainment of a US$8,2 billion agriculture eco…

Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Oppenheimer family blocks mineral exploration at their cattle ranch in Matabeleland

The Oppenheimer family has secured a court interdict in Zimbabwe to block mineral exploration at its cattle ranch in Matabeleland South.The 65 000-hectare Shangani Ranch holds at least 8 000 cattle and is believed to be rich in gold, silve…

Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 19:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean doctor at centre of Grace Mugabe farm 'gift' charged with medical misconduct; risks being struck off by tribunal

A doctor at the centre of a 2016 farm seizure row in Zimbabwe is appearing before the UK Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) over allegations of mistreating patients.The tribunal, underway in Manchester, is determining Dr Sylvest…

Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:50hrs | 2797 | by Staff reporter

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