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'Enact law for title deeds to all citizens'
The Coalition for Market and Liberal Solutions (Comaliso) is urging Parliament to pass legislation that would facilitate access to title deeds for low-income citizens. This push comes amid concerns th...Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 06:48hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Over 100 at risk of losing Cowdray Park stands
More than 100 beneficiaries of the Government-funded Hlalani Kuhle housing project in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb risk losing their properties due to the lack of proper council documentation. ...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 11:28hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes after Mugabe’s family, relatives
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has reportedly repossessed extensive land holdings belonging to former first lady Grace Mugabe, her daughter Bona, and other relatives, in a move believed to ...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 17:34hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
BCC to repossess houses in Makokoba
THE BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is set to repossess six houses in Makokoba high-density suburb which are being illegally occupied by tenants violating council policy on rented properties.Accor...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:24hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths in violent clashes
Zanu-PF supporters were left nursing injuries after a violent encounter over a residential stand owned by a deceased party supporter in Grobly Park, Waterfalls in Harare.Zanu-PF shadow council...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fights illegal settlers on state land 'sold' after being repossessed from white farmers
Two decades after a disastrous attempt at land reform, which drove out more than 400 white commercial farmers, the Zimbabwean government is fighting illegal settlers on state land handed out by tradit...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 07:22hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Top Zimbabwe army generals fired over housing corruption
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), which brings together the country's army and air force wings, has fired three senior military commanders at the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) over a multi-million-dol...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Gweru council repossesses stands
THE GWERU City Council has repossessed at least 26 Mkoba 21 residential stands from the government after its beneficiaries failed to pay for them, it has been established.In a memo dated Janua...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF engages police to recover party vehicles
Zanu-PF has issued a warning to losing party candidates who have failed to return their party vehicles as instructed, cautioning that the vehicles could be repossessed by the police if they do not com...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 06:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Makokoba tenants resist eviction
TENANTS at a Makokoba house whose owner died are reportedly refusing to vacate as Bulawayo City Council (BCC) moves to repossess the property.This is revealed in the latest council minutes in ...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 21:05hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
MDC councillors plot to rip off Gweru
ACTING Gweru district development coordinator Tarisai Mudadigwa has written a letter to acting town clerk Livingston Churu, ordering him to stop plans by councillors from the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:23hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Absence of property rights eroding investor confidence'
UNAVAILABILITY of title deeds and property rights is eroding investment confidence in Zimbabwe, the Coalition for Market and Liberal Solutions (Comaliso) has said.Currently thousands of urban ...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso executives survive vote of no confidence
HIGHLANDERS Football Club's executive survived a vote of no confidence after the auditors issued an adverse opinion on the club's financials which paints a bad picture of the institution.An ad...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Judge Ndewere wins back Merc
FORMER High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere has been given back her Mercedes-Benz vehicle which was violently seized from her by the Sheriff on orders from Judicial Service Commission (JSC)....Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimCopter inventor still wants to fly
"Since 1994, my social life has been a mess. The helicopter and African rifle project just consumed me."That's how the long-forgotten and probably never heard of by some – retired Flight Lie...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe land reallocations to benefit 260 000 people
Up to 260 000 people on the waiting list for farms are expected to benefit when the Government begins to reallocate abandoned plots, underused farms and farms that are lying idle.Those with mu...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
JSC backtracks on former judge's Merc
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has made a U-turn on its intentions to repossess former High Court judge, Justice Erica Ndewere's Mercedes Benz after her lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa accused Chief Ju...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe agricultural land not for sale
AGRICULTURAL land is not for sale and anyone who will be found selling farms allocated to them under the Land Reform Programme will face the music, President Mnangagwa has said.Addressing Zimb...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF-linked land baron up for fraud
Zanu-PF affiliated bogus land baron, Tafadzwa Kambarami, was over the weekend arrested on charges of fraud after he sold land belonging to party youths to an unsuspecting client.Kambarami (33)...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor in trouble for selling council house
A Zanu-PF councillor in Banket is in soup after allegedly selling a council house for US$5,000.Richard Muganhiri, who is Ward 23 councillor, is accused for disposing a house belonging to Zvimb...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZNA captain counts losses after a 6-year incarceration
FORMER Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) captain and chaplain at Mbalabala Barracks, who was wrongly jailed for six years for theft of a vehicle belonging to businessman Osfael Mazibuko says his business c...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 07:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Fidelity wins latest gold claim dispute
Fidelity Printers and Refiners is now secure in possession of a gold claim the Supreme Court agreed had been improperly forfeited to the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development, after the ministry fi...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Insane' opposition parties banned in Gokwe
IN a veiled attack on the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC), Gokwe's Chief Njelele has dismissed as 'insane' opposition supporters agitating for the ouster of President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the fo...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold output jumps 86,3%
ZIMBABWE'S total gold output for the first five months of the year spiked by 86,3 percent to 13,171,58kg compared to 7,068,85kg in the corresponding period in 2021, official data show.Accordin...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 08:57hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens to seize more black-owned farms, offers them to diasporans
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has threatened to seize farms from locals he accused of underutilising them.He said the farms would be handed over to those living in the diaspora.He was b...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Councils dig in as residents cry foul
NAOMI Chimbganda is still agonising over last month's council bill, which puts her debt at a staggering $1,8 million.The widow now has sleepless nights over how she will settle it, considering...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo wins back repossessed farm
FORMER Local Government minister Ignatious Chombo has won back his Allan Grange Farm in Zvimba, which was repossessed by government through a phone call by Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka's messen...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition leader kicked out of POLAD for raising rigging allegations, car seized
New Innovative Modernisation Front (NIMF) president Peter Munyanduri, who became famous for praising President Emmerson Mnangagwa after the contested 2018 elections, has been booted out of the Politic...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 20:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda, Beitbridge, Botswana villagers beat up, kill rustlers
A GROUP of 23 villagers from Gwanda and Beitbridge districts allegedly ganged up with 11 Botswana nationals and brutally assaulted seven suspected stock thieves, killing one of them during skirmishes....Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
11 Batswanas involved in murder and stocktheft in Guyu
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have said they are investigating cases of murder, kidnapping, malicious damage to property, assault, stocktheft and unlawful entry into premises and theft which occurred i...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 17:35hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe, ex-coloniser diplomatic rift set to widen
THE latest outbreak of political violence in Zimbabwe threatens to widen the diplomatic rift with the United Kingdom (UK).Relations between the African country and former coloniser have been s...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes after unutilised farms
GOVERNMENT has said underutilised land will be repossessed and redistributed to people on the waiting list during the on-going land audit to flush out multiple farm owners.Farms allocated to i...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho launches stands repossession blitz
PEOPLE who were allocated stands in Tsholotsho but failed to pay for them over the years, risk losing them as the Tsholotsho Rural District Council (TRDC) has started repossessing the properties....Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
70% of BCC debtors clear arrears
BULAWAYO City Council's (BCC) debt collection strategy is said to be paying dividends as 70% of ratepayers in the city have since cleared their arrears.Early this year, BCC said it was owed ov...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Military tightens screws on rogue soldiers
SECURITY has been heightened in army barracks across the country in the wake of a spate of robberies involving soldiers as the military descends on "rogue" elements, amid reports that the assets...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC threatens to repossess 88 commercial, industrial stands
BULAWAYO City Council has threatened to repossess 88 commercial and industrial stands after the owners failed to pay bills, or to develop them.In a notice yesterday, town clerk Christopher Dub...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council to repossess more housing stands
BULAWAYO City Council is set to repossess a number of undeveloped stands in Emganwini high density suburb, some of which are situated on wetlands.The local authority has served beneficia...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:14hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Abandoned stands headache for council
THE Bulawayo City Council has bemoaned loss of revenue due to residents who abandon their stands after acquiring them, which makes it difficult for the local authority to recover money for rates...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:54hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Councillor pays $750 for rent in two years
A BULAWAYO councillor reportedly leased a council property in 2019 which is fully guarded by council security and to date has only paid $750.Further, despite added costs of securing the ...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:13hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Fidelity wins repossession of forfeited Gold claim
Fidelity Printers and Refineries has finally repossessed its claim that was forfeited by the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development last year, after the Supreme Court confirmed an interim order gran...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:36hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
1 800 square metre stand sold for US$116
Chegutu Municipality housing director Ms Shylet Dzivai allegedly sold a residential stand measuring 1 800 square metres for $10 000 early this month which was equal to US$116, way below the initial va...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ANC crumbles under Cyril Ramaphosa
UNDER President Cyril Ramaphosa, the ANC seems to be falling apart. The once-glorious movement seems to be a former shadow of its past. These sentiments are shared by, among others, the staff ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 07:06hrs | 1 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Land barons hiding behind Mnangagwa's name'
A HARARE resident, Samuel Mutete, has written to Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) calling for invest...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 05:51hrs | 7 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Minister in fresh farm grab storm
MATABELELAND North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo has been sucked into a fresh farm invasion storm as it emerged he allegedly seized another black-owned farm and parcelled it out to members ...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Siphosami Malunga served with 14 day ultimatum for eviction from farm
Alleged beneficiaries of the Edidakeni Estate, a farm part-owned by Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) boss Siphosami Malunga have served him with a 14 day eviction order.This...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 19:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minister sucked into 'Malunga' farm grab
Matebeleland North Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Richard Moyo has been sucked into OSISA director Siphosami Malunga's Nyamandlovu farm grab saga.About three weeks ago...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 18:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt refutes Malunga farm grab claims
THE farm that Government has repossessed in Matabeleland North does not belong to Osisa director Mr Siphosami Malunga and his two partners but was compulsorily acquired under the Land Reform programme...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 18:24hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Govt repossesses 80 mining concessions
THE GOVERNMENT has successfully repossessed over 80 mining concessions under the "use-it or lose-it" policy and a formal announcement will be made in due course, Mines and Mining Development Minister ...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
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