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White and black farmers still bear the scars of Zimbabwe's land grabs
Guy Watson-Smith felt hurt and betrayed when his 5,000-hectare (12,355-acre) farm in Beatrice, in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East province, was violently invaded by three armed men in the early 2000s....Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:49hrs | 806 | by Farai Matiashe, Al Jazeera
Rural people need title deeds as well
Zimbabwe's largest demographic is its rural population, who have cultivated their land for generations, often for hundreds of years, without formal title deeds. Recently, the government announced plan...Published: 23 Dec 2024 at 00:45hrs | 162 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
If Smith was an oppressor, then what is Mnangagwa?
As I sit here, my work at a standstill due to the daily power outages we are experiencing in Zimbabwe, most times going for 15 hours or more a day, I can not help wondering.What has this suppo...Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 22:17hrs | 850 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is Zimbabwe about to create land oligarchs?
The government, through Information minister Jenfran Muswere, has announced a significant shift in land policy, declaring that state land, previously offered to local indigenous people under the "land...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 11:06hrs | 708 | by Admire Maparadza Dube
Mnangagwa a good farmer but then...
While Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Precabe Farm in Sherwood, near Kwekwe, is doing well and is often used to showcase isolated success stories of the state-sponsored chaotic land reform p...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 16:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Biti a team of irreconcilable rivals
Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, launched its campaign for the 31 July 2013 harmonised elections in Marondera, a small tow...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 08:57hrs | 11 | by Dr Phillan Zamchiya
Nelson Chamisa's Alienating 100 Page Manifesto
The Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) lost in the 2023 electoral plebiscite, and as expected immediately rejected the results complaining the elections were "marred by vote suppression and egregious ...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 22:29hrs | 3 | by Dr Moses Moyo
No blood should be shed in this election, says Mwonzora
MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC) president Senator Douglas Mwonzora has called on all political parties and citizens to maintain peace in the forthcoming elections, while encouraging tolerance of ...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Those pushing the #ZanuPFMustGo mantra have no ideological content beyond the hashtag
Dear Zanu-PF Comrades,Revolutionary greetings.Between 2018 and 2020 – on the back of the 15 November 2017 military coup that ousted President Mugabe and his government from power and...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao
Sable Chemicals trying to displace farmers in Mnangagwa's backyard
Leading fertilizer producer Sable Chemicals has come under-fire for reportedly trying to displace resettled farmers in Kwekwe's Sherwood Block to pave way for citrus and dairy farming projects....Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chombo gets new lawyers for farm dispute
Veteran lawyer Advocate Tapson Dzvetero is now defending the Government in the commercial civil case in which former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo is trying to stop the Government reducing his 3 09...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe repossessing unused land from black farmers
Zimbabwe has begun repossessing idle land from black farmers who benefitted from controversial land reforms two decades ago, Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka said Wednesday.People whose far...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 09:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Land reform a game changer, says ZDF
The Land Reform Programme is a game changer in Zimbabwe's economy that has resulted in the positive transformation of people's livelihoods. This was said by Zimbabwe National Army director civ...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
China remains a strategic partner for Zimbabwe
MY mission from His Excellency President Mnangagwa upon deployment as Ambassador in 2019 was to deepen the levels of co-operation in all respects between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Zimba...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:10hrs | 9 | by Ambassador Martin Chedondo
Tobacco hectarage increase 32%
More than 20 900 hectares have been put under tobacco, with the planting exceeding the same period last year by almost 32 percent, the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Develo...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:23hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chief who called for Mugabe's genocide reburial succumbs to Covid-19
A ZIMBABWEAN chief, who was spearheading the reburial of the late former President Robert Mugabe's remains, has succumbed to Covid-19 with some of his subjects claiming that the Mugabe ancestral spiri...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Use it or lose it, Zimbabwe new farmers told
Zanu-PF women's league boss Mabel Chinomona, who is also Senate President, has been told to utilise her farm in Chirumhanzu, Midlands, by her juniors as she risks losing the property, in what is seen ...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 19:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Defaulting farmers to lose offer letters
Farmers who did not sell their maize to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) or those that default on repayment of loans advanced to the them under the National Enhanced Agriculture Productivity Scheme (NE...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minister says no more land for new farmers
AT LEAST 250 000 people are on the government's land distribution waiting list, but according to Lands Minister Anxious Masuka, there are no more farms for new beneficiaries.The government emb...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 16:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New farmers revel in land reform glory
ZIMBABWEAN farmers have shown a positive energy, desire and capability to restore the country to being the bread basket of the region as they revel in the success of the land reform programme which re...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:58hrs | 3 | by Staff repoirter
Land tenure reform to transform Zimbabwe rapidly
Two historical notes confirm the importance of land tenure and secure property rights. In the world today, only 18% of all agricultural land is privately-owned under freehold title. Yet this small are...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Eddie cross
MDC miffed by #ZimAgricRising
The heavens have dealt a deadly blow to the jecha politics that characterises the MDC Alliance's body politik. The heavens have opened up admirably this summer cropping season, nurturing and sustainin...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 10:07hrs | 2 | by Trevor Shiri
Government to repossess underutilised irrigation schemes
GOVERNMENT has come up with a Statutory Instrument that will see it repossessing underutilised land at irrigation schemes. The SI, which is expected to be gazetted soon, will result in members of irri...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:14hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:34hrs | 38 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe Era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 12:32hrs | 5 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Tobacco exports net US$690 million
AT least 168 million kg of tobacco worth US$688 million had been exported across the globe by November 20, Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (Timb) data showed last week.The Timb said shipments for...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
23 evicted from Karoi farm, dumped in the open
A POLICE officer was injured after he was pelted with stones in running battles with 23 resettled farmers resisting eviction from Pumula Farm in Karoi, Mashonaland West province.Eight settlers...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Repossession of idle farms starts today
The process of repossessing farms that are under-utilised, vacant or abandoned as well as those owned by multiple farm owners starts today across the country and the land will be allocated to applican...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim sanctions a CIA regime change agenda project
The illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe are a CIA regime change agenda project being spearheaded by the African-American USA Ambassador to Harare, Brian Nichols, with the assistance of his MDC-Alliance runn...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 10:02hrs | 2 | by David Mwanza
After TSP, diaspora engagement critical, says Mthuli Ncube
AS government winds up the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) amid a plethora of challenges it faces in turning around the economy, the Zimbabwe Independent (ZI) caught up with Finance ministe...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Who is to blame for Zimbabwe's land reform disaster?
0N August 31, the government of Zimbabwe announced that foreign white farmers settled in the country who lost land between 2000 and 2001 under the late former President Robert Mugabe's controversial l...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:29hrs | 2 | by Tafi Mhaka
UMD supports fair, just land reform programme
The Zimbabwean masses have been unequivocally sold out and abandoned by the Zanu-PF government in their quest to be legitimate owners of pieces of land in their motherland. The announcement to...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Lovemore Moyo, UMD president
Masarira slams Mnangagwa
Linda Masarira, leader of the Labour Economists and Afrikan Democats (LEAD), opposition party, has slammed the country's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, for initiating the land compensation progr...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:49hrs | 18 | by Daniel Itai
'MDC cannot lecture us on land reform' said two-face Chinamasa - neither can you, we are not all stupid
"The MDC and its allies who resisted the land reform process, and begged sanctions for our people to be punished for taking back the land cannot lecture or school us about land reform," said Patrick C...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:32hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Less than 37 white farmers qualify for Zimbabwe land restoration'
On Monday, the Government announced that it will offer land back to two categories of farmers who were dispossessed under the land reform, namely black indigenous farmers and white farmers who were pr...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, war vets cross swords over land compensation
WAR veterans have written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government demanding that he shelves his US$3,5 billion compensation pact with white former commercial farmers, describing the move as highl...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:41hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
This Zimbabwe situation simply cannot go on
THIS is a message to those who currently hold power in Zimbabwe. I do not really care about how you got into this position, but now that you are there, we need to ask you what you are going to use tha...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
Mnangagwa creating a bourgeoisie class
WHEN it staged the November 2017 coup, the military was very candid in its statement that the grave action was an effort to "restore Robert Mugabe's legacy", a heritage that over time had been reverse...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Perrance Shiri warns defaulting new farmers
Government has warned that resettled farmers who default on their land rental payments risk punitive action. In 2015, Government introduced land rental, with farmers resettled under the model ...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Govt warned against farm leases
The government should not allow newly-resettled farmers to sub-let their farms as this will promote corruption and inefficient use of land, analysts have said.Government recently granted farme...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nothing new about the 'new dispensation'
Grace Mugabe is like a civet cat's stench. It's so strong it will burn your nostrils. And it doesn't go away in a hurry. Now, that disgraceful smell is hanging around President Emmerson Mnangagwa's se...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
White farmer bounces back
OVER 22 families spent the night out in the cold, having been evicted from a subdivision of Glenara Estates along the old Mazowe Road on Thursday, following a High Court order.The farm was all...Published: 04 May 2019 at 20:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri ejects A2 farmers from Tongaat houses
Lands minister Perrance Shiri has ejected new A2 sugarcane farmers who grabbed Tongaat Hulett houses and evicted company employees in the process, claiming they had five-year leases.In a lette...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to flesh out compensation plan for white farmers ahead of US trip
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is travelling to the United States next week, but before then he will announce that the government is ready to pay out $53 million compensation to former white land owner...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 16:32hrs | | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa attends Zimbabwe International Research Symposium
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is attending the 12th Zimbabwe International Research Symposium which has been running for the last two days.It is being attended by various schools across the cou...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has potential to become economic giant
When I listened to the remarks to the Press by Finance and Economic Development Minister Dr Mthuli Ncube after he was sworn in last September, I shared the same sentiments and fully supported him, lik...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:19hrs | 3 | by Noah Manyika
Euphoria turns to harsh reality for Zimbabweans in just a year
ON November 18 last year, thousands of Zimbabweans took to the streets of the capital Harare in a peaceful show of support for the deposition of President Robert Mugabe.After 37 years of Mugab...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 06:08hrs | | by Leila Sinclair-Bright
Zimbabwe army 'grabs' more land
Zimbabwe's gung-ho military will once again have to defend itself in court after being accused of running amok recently and "grabbing" more land for its use - this time from a group of farmers....Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must chart clear agenda to unite nation
Zimbabwe, like many other countries, has gone through different phases in its development, as people seek to chart a path that brings prosperity. Each epoch in the country's history has been character...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:20hrs | 2 | by Lovemore Chikova
Mnangagwa's new Cabinet to be sworn in today
President Mnangagwa will today swear in his newly appointed Cabinet of 20 members, 13 deputy ministers and nine provincial ministers, to come up with policies that can steer the nation out of its prol...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
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