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Chiri raises red flag over Zimdef payments
AUDITOR-General Mildred Chiri has raised the red flag over Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) finances amounting to almost a million dollars which were used for payment of science technology ...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa's Report Card - The First 100 Days
Part 1: Governance Believe it or not, March 4, 2018 marked the first 100 days of President Mnangagwa in office. And we the Zimbabwean people, the P...Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 06:38hrs | | by Vusi Nyamazana
Mnangagwa's first 100 Days: Crossing the river while feeling the rocks
Mnangagwa will complete his first 100 days in office on the 4th of March, 2018. A period of 100 days in power is too short to judge Mnangagwa, but it is certainly long enough a period to judge the dir...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Vusi Nyamazana
Mnangagwa yet to sign Land Commission Bill
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to formally approve legislation giving the Zimbabwe Land Commission (ZLC) power to be responsible for the allocation of rights in State land for agricultural pu...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mulls Land Commission Bill revision
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said he has not assented to the Land Commission Bill as Government is mulling revising the legislation to consider the role of chiefs in land matters.Addressin...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 05:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
We are custodians of land, says Chiefs
Traditional chiefs have insisted that they are the custodians of land that is not communal despite an adverse report by the Parliamentary Legal Committee (PLC) on the Land Commission Bill....Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiefs cannot be part of the Land Commission
Traditional leaders cannot be part of the Land Commission because their role is restricted to communal lands as defined in the Constitution, the Parliamentary Legal Committee has said.The ...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politics continues to dominate economics
The Land Commission Bill debate contribution by Hon Sen. Carter at Parliament.HON. SEN. CARTER: Thank you Madam President. The Land Commission Bill is much needed at this time. In the interest...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 10:23hrs | | by hansard
Chinamasa backtracks on bond notes Bill
THE Government has reversed its decision to fast track the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill that seeks to give legal effect to the introduction of bond notes in order to allow for wider con...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 15:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland MPs warn of tribal clashes over land
Magwegwe MP, Anele Ndebele (MDC-T) and his Zanu-PF Pumula counterpart, Godfrey Malaba have warned of tribal clashes over the land issue in Matabeleland, as "outsiders" continue to be resettled in ...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
I 'bought' votes using beans - Temba Mliswa says
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has revealed that he used beans from his farm to 'buy' votes.Mliswa was allocated a 800 hectares Spring farm located in Hurungwe."Madam Speaker; I want t...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 10:13hrs | | by Mary Charamba
MPs tarnishing Parliament's image
When the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation started giving live coverage to Parliamentary Question Time every Wednesday and radio coverage by Spot FM for ordinary sittings from Tuesdays to Thursdays in...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 06:12hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Farmers attack chiefs for hijacking land allocation
Traditional leaders in Masvingo have come under fire from land reform beneficiaries for hijacking land allocation by corruptly giving land to people on undesignated plots.Some farmers also acc...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Gumbo
Resettled farmers fume over Mugabe's land tax
SOME beneficiaries of the land reform programme owe up to $60 000 each in land rentals that were introduced by the Government last year, after payments were backdated to 2009, a situation that has mad...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 10:09hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Resettled farmers owe up to $60 000 each in land rentals
SOME beneficiaries of the land reform programme owe up to $60 000 each in land rentals that were introduced by the Government last year, after payments were backdated to 2009, a situation that has mad...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 07:41hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Corruption, land disputes raised at public hearing
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture and Irrigation Development was in Bulawayo on Thursday for a public hearing on the Land Commission Bill, with corruption and land disputes b...Published: 06 Aug 2016 at 11:29hrs | 1 | by Pamela Shumba
Land Commission bill public hearings kick start
Public hearings on the Land Commission bill are due to kick off this week starting with Banket tomorrow.Cabinet recently approved the Land Commission Bill as Government steps up effo...Published: 01 Aug 2016 at 12:02hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Zimbabwe land to be allocated on 'use it or lose it basis'
Redistribution of land that used to be owned by former commercial white farmers is almost complete with only 900 000 hectares left after the successful allocation of about 14,5 million hectares to loc...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's correct speech
Address by His Excellency the President Robert Mugabe on the Occasion of the Official Opening of the Third Session of the Eighth Parliament of Zimbabwe: 15th September...Published: 16 Sep 2015 at 00:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa warns Zanu-PF bigwigs
VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned bigwigs with vast tracts of land to brace for an exercise meant to reduce their farm sizes to acceptable hectares.VP Mnangagwa said corruption in l...Published: 09 Jun 2015 at 09:35hrs | 1 | by Clemence Manyukwe
Zanu-PF bigwigs set to lose excess land
Government and Zanu-PF bigwigs who seized vast swathes of farmland during the fast track land reform programme which they cannot fully utilise are set to have the farms reduced in size beginning this...Published: 01 Jun 2015 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to regulate Mnangagwa and Mphoko's conduct
GOVERNMENT has started drafting a law that will create a code to regulate the professional conduct of Vice-Presidents, Cabinet ministers and their deputies as part of a reconfiguration of the statutes...Published: 17 May 2015 at 10:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to compensate more white farmers
Government has disclosed that it is mobilising funds to compensate former white commercial farmers for improvements they made on land that was repossessed under the hugely successful land reform progr...Published: 14 Oct 2013 at 08:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Govt drafts Land Commission Bill
The Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement is drafting the Land Commission Bill which proposes to create a commission that will replace the Agriculture Land Board.The Minister of Lands and R...Published: 30 Sep 2013 at 14:19hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'Farm invasions illegal,' says Zim govt
The government has warned that any land or farm invasions are illegal and will be dealt with by the law.The Minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement, Dr Douglas Mombeshora told reporters at a ...Published: 25 Sep 2013 at 17:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
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