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Mthwakazi State proponents have exhausted internal remedies
Mqondisi Moyo, leader of the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), has announced that the party has exhausted all internal avenues in their quest to restore the Mthwakazi State and address issues such as th...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 07:15hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Why a farmer is riding from Zimbabwe to Windhoek on a horse
When Ben Freeth headed west on horseback from the derelict Mount Carmel farm near Chegutu in Zimbabwe on 28 November, he had to lay low. For about 800km, Freeth avoided roads and stuck to the bush, fo...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 20:05hrs | 6 | by GroundUp
Chiwenga's wedding was a political statement
HIGH-PROFILE weddings, especially those of the rich, famous and powerful - very important persons (VIPs) - are renowned worldwide for their grandeur, luxury and vibrant celebrations.These ausp...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 17:26hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala fundraising drive launched
ZIMBABWEAN political leader Job Sikhala is severely ill, according to his legal team, but remains in custody at the Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.The opposition politician for the Citizens...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa boycotts, Nhlanhla Ndiweni calls for sanctions on Zimbabwe
On Wednesday this week, the Mike Campbell Foundation (MCF), held its 10th Anniversary Celebrations at the Royal Geographical Society in London, themed: "An exciting journey of hope: Stories from the p...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:57hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mugabe and Smith denied povo title deed, 'not to relinquish control over them' revealed late John Robertson
"John Robertson (85), a highly respected Zimbabwean economist who lived through the rise and fall of the country's increasingly volatile economy and three successive governments, passed away in Harare...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 18:03hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
White former farmers blame Zuma, Sadc for loss of farms in Zimbabwe
Last month the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria handed down judgement in a R2 billion damages claim against South Africa by 25 dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers, some of whom were South African citizens, ...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:29hrs | 6 | by Ben Freeth
'No economic reprieve without respect for property rights'
THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal Rights Watch has warned that Zimbabwe is likely to continue missing out on international lines of credit as long as it does not respect prope...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:11hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Has Sadc Tribunal Rights Watch signed a treaty with Zimbabwe?
I READ with great interest a re cent letter to the editor by Ben Freeth in which he raises issue with the government of Zimbabwe regarding the land compensation question and property rights of individ...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | | by Jonathan Maphenduka
White farmers compensation gets murkier
Zimbabwe's ministers of Land and Finance issued a joint statement on the farm compensation issue on September 3, 2020, a month after the controversial signing of the Global Compensation Deed between t...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:01hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Let them eat cake
At the time of the French Revolution Queen Marie-Antoinette, when told that people had no bread, is reported to have said 'Let them eat cake'. Some 230 years later Zimbabwe's new Minister of Energy, F...Published: 26 May 2019 at 21:14hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa's victory not free, not fair, not credible
When Zimbabwean soldiers shot civilians during riots against alleged election-rigging on August 1, 2018, many Zimbabweans were horrified - but they weren't surprised.The previous November, the...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:11hrs | | by Rahul Nagvekar
Zanu PF goes mad – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
'Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad', goes the old adage. It seems to be coming true in our new 'reformed' Zimbabwe so warmly welcomed last year by the UK government. The UK is not smilin...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:08hrs | | by ZimVigil
Zimbabwe colonial farmers to sue Jacob Zuma
Former South Africa president Jacob Zuma, facing 16 corruption charges and a demand to pay back as much as R32m in legal fees, may soon see his woes deepen from beyond the country's borders.Af...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 16:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
SADC headache for Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has a new regional headache after the South African Constitutional Court yesterday ordered President Cyril Ramaphosa to withdraw his signature from the 2014 Protocol, whic...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 10:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's white farmers 'getting poorer, sicker' as they await govt compensation
WHITE farmers in Zimbabwe, who were evicted from their properties years ago, have been experiencing a drop in food production, and their hope to get government financial help to compensate any losses ...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:03hrs | | by newsweek
US sanctions on Zimbabwe - truths, history and lies
A new regime of US sanctions has just been signed into law, opening a fresh front in the increasingly polarised political debate in Zimbabwe.Critics say they hurt the economy, while supporters...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 19:01hrs | | by newsZWire
Hope for ex-Zimbabwe white farmers
FORMER Zimbabwean commercial farmers, who lost their properties during the land reform programme, say they are now optimistic of receiving a fair hearing and compensation after a South African court l...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
CFU against SA farmers moving into Zimbabwe
THE Commercial Farmers Union of Zimbabwe (CFU) said it was against people in South Africa who want to cross the border and gain from the country's agricultural opportunities.CFU called on the ...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 04:54hrs | | by ANA
Zuma in court over Zimbabwe land grabs
South Africa President Jacob Zuma will tomorrow appear in the High Court in Pretoria for his role in the closure of Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal after it ruled in favour of 7...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 16:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
White farmers launch 'international' legal action against Zimbabwe
White farmers whose farms were forcibly taken over by supporters of President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe say they have "launched a new international legal initiative to seek justice and compensation"....Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 10:07hrs | | by Staff reporter`
Rhodies learnt nothing, forgot nothing
First, an anecdote. Many black Zimbabweans, who have travelled across the world and come across white people formerly resident in Zimbabwe before and after Independence, will relate how a typical conv...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers launch new international legal initiative ahead of SADC Summit of Heads of State
Dispossessed Zimbabwean commercial farmers have launched a new international legal initiative to seek justice and compensation for the loss of their farms and livelihoods, and to stop the ongoing farm...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 06:05hrs | | by Agencies
UK lawyer question free world indifference to continued Mugabe lawlessness - AMEN!
In November 2008 SADC Tribunal ruled against one of President Mugabe signature lawless policy of seizing white-owned farms. The Tribunal ruled the seizures were unlawful in that the practice was racia...Published: 18 May 2017 at 20:05hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Open letter to all disposessed Zimbabwean farmers
The Issue of Compensation, the Compensation Steering Committee and the Valuation Consortium (Valcon) Dear All After 17 years, the compensation i...Published: 09 May 2017 at 16:35hrs | | by Ben Freeth
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
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
Command Agriculture - the latest 'plan' to resolve Zimbabwe's hunger problem
Ever since 2001, a year after the brutal invasion of Zimbabwe's commercial farms began, the country has been dependent on vast volumes of international food aid. Thanks to the generosity of farm...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 08:46hrs | | by Ben Freeth, Zimbabwe
Malema indicating left, turning right
The recent statement attributed to South Africa's Julius Malema purporting to express solidarity with "the people of Zimbabwe" exposes the sheer duplicity of this young and impressionable politician, ...Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 06:15hrs | | by Dr Chris Mushohwe
#ThisFlag Pastor to launch political party, claims Manheru
Popular clergyman Paste Evan Mawarire would be 'fool' if he does not launch his own political party, a Herald columnist, Nathaniel Manheru has said.Mawarire is the face of #ThisFlag moveme...Published: 16 Jul 2016 at 09:01hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Mugabe's government blasts Julius Malema
Government yesterday blasted South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema for openly declaring his support for violent protestors whose ill-fated "shutdown of Zimbabwe" was fund...Published: 16 Jul 2016 at 07:54hrs | | by Freeman Razemba
Zimbabwe: The French connection
Well, like I indicated last week, the pilferage of the uumph of civil servants demonstrations by some externally glamorised fringe political upstarts last week was bound be exposed in the failed lockd...Published: 16 Jul 2016 at 07:50hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe govt faces $30 billion bill for land
ZIMBABWE'S cash-strapped government could face a US$30 billion bill for compensation of land expropriated from white farmers under the country's controversial land redistribution exercise that saw...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heal Zimbabwe conduct consultative meting on NPRC bill in Harare
Last week the Heal Zimbabwe conducted a public consultative meeting on the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission Bill at Crowne Plaza hotel in Harare attended by 503 people. According t...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 07:06hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Ben Freeth says situation in Zim dreadful
A British- Zimbabwe citizen Ben Freeth has claimed that the situation in Zimbabwe is dreadful and his stolen farm was yielding no production as the irrigation system was vandalized and his former work...Published: 09 Mar 2016 at 05:28hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe: Last herds of pedigree Hereford and Senepol cattle under threat
As the drought in Zimbabwe bites deep and reports of cattle deaths escalate, the country's last two herds of irreplaceable pedigree Hereford and Senepol cattle are under severe threat - not directly f...Published: 22 Jan 2016 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
White farmers petition Mugabe
A GROUP of white commercial farmers in Matabeleland South province have petitioned President Robert Mugabe to stop his aide, Ray Ndhlukula from invading Centenary Farm, saying rare breeds of cattle we...Published: 22 Jan 2016 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK demand for expulsion of Zim doctor
The attempt by a British GP to seize a farm in Zimbabwe was condemned by Ephraim Tapa, founder member of the Zimbabwe Vigil and President of its sister organisation Restoration of Human Rights in Zim...Published: 01 Nov 2015 at 21:06hrs | | by ZZimbabwe Vigil Diary: 31st October 2015
White Zimbabwean farmer still under siege
A Mashonaland Central farmer, Phillip Rankin, is still under siege after his land in Centenary was invaded by supporters of a British-based doctor, Sylvester Nyatsuro.According to Ben Freeth o...Published: 25 Oct 2015 at 12:45hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
Zimbabwean farmer remains under siege from British doctor's invaders
A Zimbabwean farmer and his wife, Phillip and Anita Rankin, remain under siege from thugs who have surrounded their farmhouse at the instigation of a British citizen, Dr Sylvester Nyatsuro (45) from N...Published: 22 Oct 2015 at 15:59hrs | | by Ben Freeth
British doctor involved in Zimbabwean farm grab
A British doctor and his wife have joined the relentless onslaught by ruling party officials on Zimbabwe's few remaining white commercial farmers and are currently involved in the invasion of a tobacc...Published: 14 Oct 2015 at 16:53hrs | | by Ben Freeth
AfriForum challenge is less about Zimbabwe but more about South African and Namibian land reform
LAST week I promised to tackle the issue of the sale by auction of a property of the Zimbabwe Government in Cape Town, over a court action involving AfriForum, a white legal outfit defending colonial ...Published: 04 Oct 2015 at 09:28hrs | 6 | by Nathaniel Manheru
'I am proud of being Ndebele,' says white Zimbabwean
Being white in Zimbabwe has for the past decade been a nightmare for some following an often-violent land reform program that began in 2000, dispossessing them of fertile farming land.Many whi...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 13:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
SADC heads of state bar citizens access to illegally reconstituted regional court
Following the decision to deny the 258 million SADC citizens access to the regional court of the SADC Tribunal, taken during the 35th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government in Botswana [17-18 Au...Published: 21 Aug 2015 at 20:53hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Dzamara worth more than the others who have disappeared or killed
CHIKUKUVATAVATA. It used to be a game we played in our youthful, colonial days. Mother asks you and your siblings to catch a cock or hen for dinner, most probably because sekuru in the sense of your m...Published: 18 Jul 2015 at 13:24hrs | 26 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe's Zimbabwe slides into famine
Zimbabwe's schizophrenia is in vivid evidence on Friday afternoons in the capital Harare's leafy northern suburbs.At the Tin Cup restaurant round the back of the Chisipite Shopping Centre, whi...Published: 17 Jul 2015 at 18:54hrs | | by Newsweek
Tsvangirai's greatest gift to Zimbabwe would be to step down
Ben Freeth says Morgan Tsvangirai's greatest gift to his country would be to step down as the grandfather of the MDC-T.As Zimbabwe slides deeper into economic crisis, despondency and decay, pe...Published: 09 May 2015 at 15:28hrs | | by Ben Freeth
How to fight Zimbabwe-style land grabs
Speech by Ben Freeth to the Guide on Land Grabs in South Africa, AfriForum Conference, Pretoria, March 18 2015The Fight Using the Light for Property Ri...Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 09:33hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Pastor T.B Joshua runs a nation in a country
Amazed. Amazed. Pastor Temitope Balogun Joshua amazed me. I was part of a delegation that visited him two days into the newyear, on the platform of the human rights community. Our mission was to f...Published: 10 Jan 2015 at 12:07hrs | | by Adewale Adeoye
Whose 'unity' are we celebrating?
…..Day raises more questions than answers. According to Zanu (PF) officials, Zimbabweans should celebrate "Unity Day" on December 22.They ...Published: 22 Dec 2014 at 14:56hrs | | by Mxolisi Ncube
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