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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 whi...Published: 22 Jul 2025 at 18:00hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Farmers4ED provincial chairperson up for fraud
The Harare provincial chairperson for Zanu-PF affiliate Farmers4ED, Terai Mudzimukunze, was arraigned before the Harare Magistrates' Court on allegations of defrauding the City of Harare's chief build...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 07:05hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF official arrested for forgery and fraud
A former Zanu PF councillor and unsuccessful parliamentary candidate has been apprehended for fraud, accused of forging land ownership documents in an attempt to claim mining rights at a farm near Gwe...Published: 18 May 2024 at 13:04hrs | 25 | 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. ...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:53hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF is evicting resettled blacks, Operation Mavhotera Papi mark 2023 in all but name
"HUNDREDS of farmers and villagers in Mashonaland West province are facing eviction from the land they occupied on the strength of offer letters issued by politicians and lands officers during the cha...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 19:17hrs | 10 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe govt warns corrupt land officers
THE Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Professor Obert Jiri has warned land officers against engaging in corrupt activities when dischar...Published: 29 Dec 2023 at 07:05hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe farm dispute opens can of worms
THE land dispute between Zanu-PF Hurungwe East legislator Chenjerai Kangausaru and a communal farmer Vincent Tendayi has opened a can of worms.Kangausaru, who has been tussling with Tendayi ov...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 05:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean court halts ex-minister's eviction
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Bongani Ndlovu last Friday issued an interdict barring government from evicting former Cabinet minister Moses Mzila-Ndlovu from his farm in Matobo district, Matabelel...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chief Nyangazonke in boundary dispute
Chief Nyangazonke finds himself entangled in a prolonged dispute with his neighbor, Mr. Johannes Hart, whom he accuses of encroaching on his property in the Matobo District of Matabeleland South Provi...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 06:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zimbabwe Minister sues over farm eviction
FORMER Co-Minister of National Healing and Integration, Moses Mzila Ndlovu who is facing eviction from his farm in Matobo District, Matabeleland South Province which he claimed he has occupied for the...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni gazetting application abandoned
A High Court application by Mr Zephaniah Dhlamini and his business partners Siphosami Malunga, Charles Moyo and Kershelmar Farms (Pvt) Ltd in which they were seeking nullification of the gazetting of ...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sipho Malunga and partners continue to fight 'unjust' prosecution
The lawyer representing the three Kershelmar Farms (Private) Limited directors has moved to try and halt the trial in which the latter are being accused of illegally occupying Esidakeni Farm in Nyaman...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni Farm court application challenged
LANDS, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development Minister Anxious Masuka is challenging a court application by Zephaniah Dhlamini and his business partners Siphosami Malunga, Charles Moyo an...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malunga trial kicks off under protest
THE trial of human rights lawyer, Siphosami Malunga and his two business partners Zephaniah Dhlamini and Charles Moyo on charges of illegal occupation of Umguzana Farm popularly known as Esidakeni, ha...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Name-dropping Mnangagwa exposes high-level corruption
LET us just imagine this scenario.My son goes to a house in our neighbourhood, and claims to the occupants that I sent him to ask for some money.What response are we to expect from thi...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:46hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Govt insincere over Cyrene Farm invasion, says CCC
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has slammed government for "pretending" that it was assisting the Anglican Church in Figtree, Matabeleland South province to stop land invasions at i...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Top govt official in messy land fight
A COMMISSIONER at the Public Service Commission (PSC) Tsitsi Choruma is at the centre of a farm invasion storm that has rocked the Lands ministry in the Mazowe area after being allocated part of the l...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO boss grabs Mhangura farm, evicts 200 school children
A SENIOR Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officer, Hickman Nyarumwe, has reportedly seized a Mhangura farm and moved to evict over 200 from a satellite school situated there, NewZimbabwe.com ca...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government intensifies allocation of land to youths
GOVERNMENT has intensified the allocation of land to youths under the 20 percent quota system to enable them to venture into various farming projects, the Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Wa...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni farm wrangle turns nasty, tomato crops destroyed
KERSHELMAR Farm, commonly known as Esidakeni, should be teeming with ready-to-harvest tomatoes at this time of the year as it is every farmer's wish to take a good crop to market.A gaze throug...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
PG orders probe into Esidakeni
Prosecutor General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi has directed the police to investigate possible violations of the exchange control and the tax laws in a transaction that saw two Zimbabweans claiming ownership of...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:53hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
PG orders probe into farm purchase
Prosecutor General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi has directed the police to investigate possible violations of the exchange control and the tax laws in a transaction that saw two Zimbabweans claiming ownership of...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:52hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni farm former owner puts weight behind Malunga
THE former owner of Esikadeni farm, which has been at the centre of an ownership dispute pitting its local shareholders and government, has said he disposed of his stake in the dairy business to three...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:58hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa farm invaders face 30 days in jail
EIGHT people, recently arrested for illegally occupying part of businessman-cum-politician, Phillip Chiyangwa's Sinoia Citrus Estates, have been fined $2 500 each or face 30 days imprisonment....Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 20:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ntabazinduna farm wrangle
FORMER owner of Tabas Induna Farm in Ntabazinduna in Matabeleland North Province, Mr Brian Davies, has dragged the Government and newly resettled farmer, Mr Floyd Ambrose, to court for allegedly faili...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
New offer letters for farmers
Old offer letters for resettlement land and land permits are being replaced with new documents that have improved security features to curb illegal parcelling out of land and weed out fake offer lette...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZACC in another catch and release storm
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) was Monday caught up in yet another catch and release storm after its investigators pounced on Minister of State for Masvingo Province Ezra Chadzamira in...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:26hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Masuka defends Malunga farm grab
LANDS and Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has said the High Court has no authority to reverse the acquisition of farmland by the State.He was responding to an application by Osisa director...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Esidakeni applicants have no legal standing'
GOVERNMENT has said Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (Osisa) director Mr Siphosami Malunga and his two business partners, have no legal standing to approach the court claiming ownership of ...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Criminals hijack Zimbabwe land reform
Investigations EditorCriminal gangs are taking advantage of those who still believe corruption is rife in Government circles, despite the evidence that it is not tolerated, to sell fake offer letters ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Scandal as Ministry issues farm offer letter to a fugitive
A 99-year lease offer letter that was issued and signed by the minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Anxious Masuka to a fugitive who skipped the country 14 yea...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 06:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
28 arrested for invading Phillip Chiyangwa's farm
TWENTY-eight people have been arrested for invading businessman and Zanu-PF politician, Phillip Chiyangwa's Sinoia Citrus Estates near Chinhoyi town.The alleged invaders have since appeared be...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zacc arrests raise eyebrows
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is in the eye of a storm after it summoned four Midlands provincial government officials over charges that are already before the courts. The case has no...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 09:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Farmer, village head fight over farmhouse
A BENEFICIARY of the land reform programme at Sailor Jack farm in Nyamandlovu, Umguza district, Matabeleland North province has resisted efforts to evict him from a farmhouse he has occupied since 200...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sydney Malunga's son farm shut down...CIO boss fingered
Dumisani Madzivanyati the alleged ZANU PF functionary and runner of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation boss Gatsha Mazithulela has reportedly shut down operations at a farm owned by t...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 12:11hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Malunga farm ownership wrangle turns nasty
NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) lecturer Dumisani Madzivanyati has claimed that he sustained head injuries after he was allegedly struck with an iron rods early this month by co-o...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ministers and CIOs named in farm grab
CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) deputy director-general Gatsha Mazithule la, Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka and Matabeleland North Minister of State Richard Moyo have been dragged to the ...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Row over farm seizure deepens as owners produce deed of title
HOLDERS of Kershelmar Farms (Pvt) Limited - which legally owns Kershelmar Farm currently at the centre of a fierce row between politicians in Matabeleland North province and its lawful property owners...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 21:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Malunga farm ownership documents 'disappear' from deeds office
Documents proving the family of the late national hero Sydney Malunga owns a farm that's being controversially seized by government have gone missing from the deeds office, Malunga's son Siphosami cla...Published: 22 Jun 2021 at 17:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation saga sucks in Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sucked into the exhumation of the late former president Robert Mugabe's remains saga after it emerged he chaired a high-level meeting of the deceased strongman's ...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Top cop joins Zanu-PF land association
HEADLANDS police officer-in-charge Norbert Ngandini is in the eye of a political storm after allegedly joining Zanu-PF-aligned Headlands Development Association (HDA), which deals with land issues....Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Farmers sue army, police chiefs
GOEDE Hoop Farm proprietors have approached the High Court for a second time seeking to rescind offer letters for land granted to Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Valerio Sibanda and police commissio...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Nick Mangwana to evict villagers after farm grab
A group of villagers living on a farm near Chegutu say Zimbabwe government spokesman Ndavaningi Mangwana has ordered them off the land after six years, ZimLive reported.Some 70 families settle...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 15:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zacc investigates Chadzamira over land
FOLLOWING a story carried by The NewsHawks in January exposing the corrupt distribution of sugarcane plots by senior government officials in Chiredzi, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) ha...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chief Sigola exposes corruption by Umzingwane District Lands Committee
CHIEF Zephania Sigola is accusing the Umzingwane District Lands Committee in Matabeleland South of deliberately sidelining him in the allocation of land at Springvale Estate and "corruptly allocating ...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:57hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZRP Support Unit embroiled in farm dispute
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police Support Unit in Shamva has been accused of invading a farm belonging to one Cyril Gunda, in a matter that spilled into the courts yesterday.Gunda is seeking an order t...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
More families evicted from Cyrene Farm
THE Messenger of Court, assisted by the police last week evicted 12 families from Cyrene Farm in Figtree which is owned by the Anglican Province of Central Africa Church in the Diocese of Matabeleland...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Govt acts on corruption in land distribution
Government has reviewed the policy on allocation of vacant land and restructured the Provincial and District Lands committee to curb rampant corruption, legislators have heard.Lands, Agricultu...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's minister in land row
FORMER Industry and Commerce minister Mike Bimha is embroiled in a land dispute with resettled ward 8 villagers in Chivhu, who are accusing him of seizing State land which was gazetted by government f...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland West chief lands officer arrested
Police in Chinhoyi have arrested Mashonaland West provincial chief lands officer Malvin Tendai Mhaka for criminal abuse of office after he allegedly demanded bribes from white farmers applying for 99-...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
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