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White farmer slams Zimbabwe's new title deeds as 'worthless'
Ben Freeth, the former Chegutu commercial farmer turned global land rights activist, has sharply criticized the Zimbabwean government's newly-issued title deeds for farms acquired during the country's...Published: 24 Jan 2025 at 07:59hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
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 | 397 | 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 | 16 | by GroundUp
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 | 1 | 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 | 9 | by Wilbert Mukori
'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 | 10 | by Staff reporter
Property rights update meeting with farm title holders in Bulawayo
A meeting of farm title deed owners was held on 14 October 2020 in Bulawayo to update them on legal issues relating to property rights, or the lack of them, in Zimbabwe.The Herald newspaper wa...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 22:20hrs | 2 | by Agencies
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
Zimbabwean white farmers lodge a R1.9bn compensation claim against South Africa
In what we hope is the final phase of a protracted legal struggle for justice in Zimbabwe, Willie Spies, the legal representative of AfriForum, a South African civil rights initiative, lodged papers i...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 13:55hrs | 8 | 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
Con-Court bench members' profiles
Chief Justice Luke MalabaLuke Malaba was born in 1951.He received his law degree from the University of Warwick in 1974, and another law degree from the University of Zimbabwe in 1982....Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 13:07hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Profiles of Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court judges
Nine Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judges will today preside over a matter which will decide on who will lead Zimbabwe for the next five years. Chief Justice Luke Malaba will lead a cast of eight ju...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:26hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fate lies with 9 judges
ZIMBABWE'S estimated 14 million citizens are today holding their collective breaths as the Constitutional Court bench made up of nine men and women sit to make a determination in one of the greatest p...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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 | 4 | by newsZWire
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
I voted multiple times for people living in the diaspora at the insistence of Tobaiwa Mudede
Tobaiwa Mudede, a Mugabe's apologetic civil servant who is somehow immune to retirement is a perennial electoral impostor, manipulator of the voters roll and an agent of corrupting the democratic elec...Published: 01 Jul 2017 at 11:33hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
The Zimbabwe Government remains in contempt of court and continues to flout the rule of law
International rule of law expert Sir Jeffrey Jowell QC points out the Zimbabwe Government's continued contempt of court, which begs the question whether it is legal and ethical for the international c...Published: 17 May 2017 at 21:54hrs | | by Ben Freeth
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 | 1 | 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
Zimbabweans campaign against UK visa refusal
The Vigil has launched a petition to the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, following the refusal of visas to Zimbabwean human rights activists invited to address audiences in London.The pet...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 21:02hrs | 2 | by Zimbabwe Vigil
Zimbabwean activists denied UK visas
A leading British parliamentarian has said it is disgraceful that prominent Zimbabwean civil rights campaigners are being refused visas to visit the UK to talk about the struggle against Mugabe and hi...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 18:12hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil
Zimbabwe 'white farmer's arms cache' exaplained
The Mike Campbell Foundation has defended the white commercial farmer Geofrey Kelly McKinnon (66) after state media accused him of keeping firearms at his farm.According to the foundation, the...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 20:55hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
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 | 1 | by Ben Freeth, Zimbabwe
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
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 | 3 | 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 | 1 | by Ben Freeth
Mugabe's rudderless regime
It is becoming clear that there is no one in charge in Zimbabwe. There is a leadership vacuum. No sooner does one minister make a policy statement than another contradicts it.After Finance Min...Published: 11 Jan 2015 at 17:26hrs | 1 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
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
Sadc court returns under new protocol
THE 34th Ordinary Sadc Summit has adopted a new protocol to re-establish the bloc's court that was disbanded in 2010 after Harare protested against its biased rulings that sought to reverse the land r...Published: 19 Aug 2014 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Patrick Chitumba
Robert Mugabe - The last man standing
IF former Zanu-PF stalwart Enos Nkala had been alive today and witnessed last week's passing of South Africa's founding president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, his worst fears would have be...Published: 21 Dec 2013 at 02:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Something to write home about
The landmark ruling this week by the Constitutional Court restoring dual citizenship following an application by Mutumwa Mawere represents one of the several issues to write home about. The ...Published: 28 Jun 2013 at 11:01hrs | 4 | by Dr Clifford Chitupa Mashiri, 28th June 2013.
Morgan Tsvangirai - Small man in a big chair
Before Morgan Tsvangirai entered the world of governance he enjoyed a rather stupendous mass of sympathy support, both at home and abroad. This was precisely because opposition politics was merely ab...Published: 17 May 2013 at 05:24hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova
Scottish National Party official defends Mugabe's land invasions
A Frenchman in line to become a Scottish Nationalist MSP has been criticised for defending President Robert Mugabe's notorious land reform policies.Christian Allard said Mugabe's land redistr...Published: 12 May 2013 at 09:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lift illegal and racist sanctions against Zimbabwe - NLM youth formations
DECLARATION OF THE MEETING OF HEADS OF YOUTH LEAGUES AND WINGS OF POLITICAL PARTIES OF FORMER LIBERATION MOVEMENTS HELD AT FREEDOM PARK, TSHWANE, GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRIC...Published: 12 Mar 2013 at 12:01hrs | | by ANCYL
'Selfish Zuma allowed Mugabe to kill SADC Tribunal'
The former Chief Justice of the disbanded Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal has accused President Jacob Zuma of "selfishly" standing back and letting Zimbabwe President Robert Mu...Published: 03 Mar 2013 at 18:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why I cannot endorse Zimbabwe's new constitution
We have all waited long for Zimbabwe's new constitution. I wish to focus on a fundamental and principle part of this long and wordy document which, at 164 pages, stretches to the length of a sho...Published: 31 Jan 2013 at 09:51hrs | | by Ben Freeth
Sadc powers should not be domesticated into SA law court told
A SADC tribunal judgment on human rights and land issues in Zimbabwe should be treated with caution, the Supreme Court of Appeal heard on Monday."The SADC tribunal's powers have not been domes...Published: 27 Aug 2012 at 17:11hrs | | by Sapa
Zimbabwe coming to court with 'hands dripping in blood': Afriforum
The Zimbabwe government was yesterday given leave to appeal against a North Gauteng High Court ruling in favour of dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers, despite being accused of coming to court with "hands...Published: 15 Sep 2011 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
More Zimbabwe government assets in South Africa to be seized
NewsDay reports that the Southern African Commercial Farmers' Alliance (Safca) has warned the Zimbabwean government to brace for more seizures of its assets across the Limpopo as farmers who lost thei...Published: 09 Jun 2011 at 04:50hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Zim assets in South Africa can be sold to compensate white farmers
The High Court in Pretoria on Monday rejected an application by the Zimbabwean government to prevent its assets being sold to compensate farmers who suffered land grabs.The three farmers - Lou...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 12:29hrs | 3 | by Nare Msupatsila
Will Zimbabwe be toasting to 31yrs of self-rule or moral decline?
As Zimbabwe celebrates 31years of independence on 18th April, succession concerns have re-surfaced amidst reports of deep divisions as the biological clock ticks loudly for the Supreme leader and tho...Published: 18 Apr 2011 at 05:32hrs | 2 | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri, Political Analyst
Mike Campbell, the farmer who challenged land reform before SADC tribunal, has died
Mike Campbell has died, he died in his temporary home in Harare yesterday, a place that became his home after he was evicted from Mount Carmel farm during the land invasions....Published: 07 Apr 2011 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Byo24News
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