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Zanla story on Salisbury fuel tanks is utter fiction
THERE has been a lot of confusion on the role ZIPRA played during the liberation struggle and a lot of twisting of facts related to certain operations that are perceived to have changed the course of ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 08:41hrs | 2 | by Barbatone Irvine Sibhona
Give Gukurahundi victims IDs, says Chamisa's Harare MP
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator for Hatcliffe constituency, Allan Markham, has recommended that the national identity registration blitz cater for Gukurahundi victims and ex-farmworker...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmworkers challenge eviction order
At least 16 farmers who were evicted on a farm in Concession left by its former owner under their care are challenging an eviction order granted by Bindura Magistrate court which cites Nicholas Mattis...Published: 05 May 2021 at 16:45hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Undocumented migrants bolster indigenous truck owners' businesses
THE refusal by bigger companies like Botswana Couriers, Sprint Couriers, Skynet Couriers, UPS, TNT Express and FedEx to accept parcels from individuals without identity documents has created an opport...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmworkers demand forex
FARM workers say the government must consider paying farmers in foreign currency for deliveries of cash crops so that the producers can pay their workers reasonable wages.Raymond Sixpence, a P...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Workers arrested for refusing $8 wages
Farm Workers were taken by 2 ZRP trucks at a farm in Ward 34 in Mazowe after a salary dispute with the farm owner. The Tevitdale farmworkers were bundled into police trucks after a wage dispute with t...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 12:31hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
Ambassadors accredited to Zimbabwe told to stick to protocol
Ambassadors accredited to Zimbabwe should comply with diplomatic protocols that compel them not to interfere with internal affairs, a Cabinet Minister has said. Information, Publicity and Broa...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Cyril Ramaphosa defends white farmers
Just over a week ago, Brendin Horner, a young farm manager in the Free State, was murdered in an appalling act of cruelty. His killing should anger and upset every one of us. ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Cyril Ramaphosa
Robert Mugabe: A leader loved and hated in equal measure by Zimbabweans
Longtime Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has died. He was 95.Loved and hated in almost equal measure by Zimbabweans, the former teacher was best known for leading Zimbabwe to independence, ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 08:38hrs | | by Compiled by Alet Janse van Rensburg
Israel's Desert Agriculture experience and technologies can help transform agriculture in Zimbabwe and Africa
Agriculture in Israel is a highly developed industry. Israel is a major exporter of fresh produce and a world-leader in agricultural technologies despite the fact that the geography of the country is ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 13:22hrs | 4 | by Enos Denhere
Military evicts Mnangagwa's elderly cleric at gunpoint
ZIMBABWE'S military, enforcing a government order, has forcibly evicted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's elderly cleric neighbour - at gunpoint - from a well-developed and equipped 250-hectare farm on t...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa reveals support for white farmers'
On 14 January 2016 the Telegraph reported that, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, revealed the "secret" that he personally protected scores of white farmers from being driven from their land at the height...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 14:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gudyanga booted out of Parliament
HIGHER Education secretary Francis Gudyanga and his 13 subordinates were yesterday booted out of Parliament after they failed to adequately answer questions pertaining to a report on the ministry's sh...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans living in SA in Catch-22 situation
With a big basket, Hitele Hlalathi furiously picks grapes in a vast plantation that goes as far as the eye can see at a farm on the outskirts of South Africa's largest city.It is still 6am, bu...Published: 04 Nov 2017 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uproar over 'slavery' on Zimbabwe farms
Farmworkers in Zimbabwe can now be employed for four and half years by the same employer on short-term contracts, an arrangement that leaves them vulnerable to abuse and without terminal benefits....Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 10:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Armed men now occupy my farm' - evicted white Zimbabwe farmer
A white Zimbabwean commercial maize and tobacco farmer, Robert Smart, 70, who was evicted from his property by authorities last week has told ...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim community in SA hails Rosettenville residents for driving out drugs dealers
Zimbabwe Communists in South Africa have hailed the residents of Rosettenville in that country for driving away drug dealers.Zimbabwe Communist Group and the Zimbabwe Communist League in South...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 05:36hrs | 8 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's white farmers once helped feed Africa
Martin Fletcher is former foreign editor of The Times and a foreign correspondent. Follow him at @mfletchertimes. His assignment in Zimbabwe was financed by the Pulit...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 12:52hrs | | by Martin Fletcher
'Underpaid' Zimbabwean farm workers lose R1,6 million SA case
A South African magistrate has thrown out a bid by 300 Zimbabwean farm workers who sought to recover R1,6 million from a Limpopo farmer who has been underpaying them for the last 10 years.Mr V...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 11:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
VP Mnangagwa interview makes troubling reading- Moyo
Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has said the piece that features an interview with Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was making a troubling reading on many fronts and was terri...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 05:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Shocker as goat gives birth to kid with human face
A farmer was shocked after he found a newborn goat on his farm had the face of a human baby. Ibrahim Basir shared pictures of what people have claimed is a fawn - the mythical fusion of g...Published: 27 Apr 2016 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Driven hunt organizer implicated in land deal irregularities
The playgrounds of trigger-happy trophy hunters are far removed from the fertile fruit farms of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape. But a recent television expose of driven hunting - has established a ...Published: 18 Sep 2015 at 10:22hrs | | by Hazel Friedman
The Chinotimba Dilemma
When Zimrights, one of Zimbabwe's oldest civil society organisations, awarded a human rights defender award to Zanu-PF MP and war-veteran, Joseph Chinotimba towards Christmas, I thought the organisati...Published: 23 Jan 2015 at 11:27hrs | | by Alex T. Magaisa
'No Zimbabwean-style land reforms for SA'
Pretoria - The law will not allow South Africa to embark on a land redistribution process similar to that in Zimbabwe, Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti said on Thursday....Published: 16 Oct 2014 at 16:05hrs | | by Sapa
Mugabe's farm invasions bring smiles to new farmers
Bonus Matashu points to a three-tonne truck he bought for $15 000 in cash and says President Robert Mugabe's often violent programme of seizing white-owned farms and giving them to black Zimbabwea...Published: 05 Nov 2013 at 02:26hrs | | by Bloomberg
Zanu-PF wants to grab Mutinhiri's farm
Ex-Zanu-PF Women's League political commissar and legislator Tracy Mutinhiri claims her former comrades are moving in to grab her farm as preparations for elections gain momentum.Mutinhiri, w...Published: 15 Mar 2013 at 09:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Disastrous by-elections could make Mugabe's dream of an early election come true!
Are Zimbabweans going to regret the Supreme Court's Ruling to have by-elections before the full implementation of the GPA?Recently, the Supreme Court gave a green light to hold by-elections i...Published: 26 Jul 2012 at 08:42hrs | 1 | by Mathula Lusinga
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