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Land invaders jailed for unlawfully occupying farm
Five illegal settlers in Hurungwe district, Mashonaland West province, have each been sentenced to a one-month jail term for unlawfully occupying Bonanza farm in Tengwe. The group, comprising Itai Mwa...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 16:47hrs | 1152 | by Staff reporter
Old Gwanda Road Redevelopment sparks household relocation plan
The redevelopment of the Old Gwanda Road into a tolled highway has led to the planned relocation of several households, according to a report released by Zwane Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd.The projec...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 17:45hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
Zinwa leaves incomplete borehole projects in Bulawayo
Pelandaba-Tshabalala MP Joseph Tshuma has publicly criticized the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) for its failure to deliver functional boreholes in Bulawayo, leaving residents without adequ...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 15:21hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Mt Hampden residents face displacement for Zim Cyber City development
Thousands of residents in Turner Farm, Mt Hampden, are facing the looming threat of displacement as the government moves ahead with the development of the multi-billion-dollar Zim Cyber City project, ...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:16hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wants govt to enforce 'use it or lose it policy' in mining
ZANU-PF has instructed the government to amend legislation on exclusive prospecting orders (EPOs) and enforce the "use it or lose it" policy to prevent mining companies and individuals from holding cl...Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 08:35hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Chief Marupi to be laid to rest on Sunday
Gwanda District's youthful Chief Marupi, who passed away after a brief illness, will be laid to rest this Sunday at his rural home in the Mbuzimbili area of Matabeleland South. Chief Marupi, born Oahe...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:45hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
US$48 million needed to complete Lake Gwayi-Tshangani by 2025
At least US$48 million is required next year to complete the construction of Lake Gwayi-Tshangani, a crucial water project aimed at alleviating water shortages in Bulawayo and surrounding areas. This ...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 07:40hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
War vets faction defied High Court order
A faction of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has defied a High Court order by holding an elective congress over the weekend, resulting in the appointment of new lead...Published: 14 Oct 2024 at 08:13hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
War veteran faces eviction amid corruption scandal
Bernard Masendeke, a war veteran popularly known as "Shumba," is facing eviction from a farm he has occupied for nearly 20 years following a court order linked to a corruption scandal involving senior...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 17:24hrs | 1384 | by Staff reporter
Colonialists to give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius
The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century.The deal – reached after years ...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 12:39hrs | 219 | by Andrew Harding
Bubi villagers petition Masuka, Zinwa over bills
Villagers in Bubi, Matabeleland North, have raised concerns with Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Anxious Masuka and the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zin...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 09:55hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
Minister Masuka stopped from reversing offer letter
The High Court has blocked Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, and Rural Development Minister Anxious Masuka from withdrawing an offer letter for a farm allocated to Chegutu businessman Christopher ...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:19hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt warns against self-styled kings
The Government has issued a strong condemnation against Mike Moyo and Timothy Chiminya for falsely claiming titles as King Mambo and King Munhumutapa, respectively. Moyo has furthered this pretense by...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 12:32hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Kamila Harris' grandfather lived in Zambia
Vice President Kamala Harris during her last diplomatic swing through Africa for something much more personal visited the site of her maternal grandfather's home in Lusaka, where he lived as an Indian...Published: 24 Jul 2024 at 09:51hrs | 1713 | by AP
Special dispensation on cards for Zimbabwe Diasporans in need of land
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has committed to creating a special dispensation to facilitate faster access to land and other services for Zimbabweans in the diaspora, enhancing their participation in na...Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 10:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt grants Umvutcha farmer's appeal over property caveats
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has granted an appeal to Alistair Michael Fletcher, an Umvutcha farmer, challenging a Supreme Court decision that overturned a High Court ruling regarding caveats p...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to force road construction firms to erect fences along highways
The Government is considering new legislation to mandate that companies contracted for major road rehabilitation projects erect fences along highways to prevent accidents caused by stray domestic and ...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:05hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
The politics of Zimbabwe's land reform: winners and losers
The political debates about the rights and wrongs of Zimbabwe's land reform continue to occupy many.The tired, old obsession about how the land was taken and the associated focus on so-called ...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:34hrs | 1 | by Ian Scoones
Violent crime rocks Gwanda
VIOLENT crime that includes robbery, kidnapping and rape is haunting villagers residing at resettlement areas of Gwanda in Matabeleland South.A villager, Jeremiah Zitha from ward 2 in Nyandeni...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under pressure
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is now under pressure to declare a drought in Zimbabwe after almost the entire crop planted in the 2023/24 summer cropping season has been rendered a complete write-off, a...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 11:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa orders probe into villagers' evictions
THE recent wanton evictions of resettled innocent villagers from their homes across the country was not sanctioned by authorities, suggesting that the genuine blitz against land barons has been hijack...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's worst water crisis in decade
BULAWAYO could face its worst water crisis in the past 10 years, with statistics at hand showing that its supply dams are in the red, a few weeks before the official ending of the rainy season in Zimb...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt scraps Cala, introduces school based projects
THE Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) have, with immediate effect, been replaced with the new school-based projects of practical applications with the number of areas covered by the non...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe millers to import 1,1 million tonnes of maize
Private businesses under the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe will import up to 1,1 million tonnes of maize between now and March next year to augment Government efforts to ensure availability of...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns land barons
Zanu-PF has said law enforcement agents should go after "big fish" land barons who have made millions of dollars through selling State land which is against the Government and the ruling party's land ...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt's ‘Zionist' approach to land evictions condemned
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has condemned the government's heavy-handed approach to dealing with illegal land occupations, likening it to past controversial actions and expressing con...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matobo District face water shortages
MATOBO district has been hard hit by water shortages after available sources dried up with the worst affected areas being ward 13 and surrounding places.Villagers, teachers and pupils at Polim...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 13:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt will not allow lawlessness
The government has justified its actions in evicting and apprehending thousands of illegal settlers nationwide, asserting that it cannot tolerate lawlessness.During a question and answer sessi...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 05:02hrs | | 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
BCC to reverse decision to close 5th Avenue market
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) will this week deliberate on a move that is likely to see the reversal of a resolution to shut down vending activities along 5th Avenue and opening the road to vehicula...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Zvimba East by-election candidate fights for families facing eviction
Zanu-PF Zvimba East constituency by-election candidate, Kudakwashe Decide Manhanzva, is leaving no stone unturned in his bid to win the parliamentary seat, promising to stop the eviction of hordes of ...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmers expect decent harvest
FARMERS are now expecting to get a decent harvest following the weakening of the El Nino phenomenon which was expected to cause severe drought in most parts of Southern Africa including Zimbabwe....Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Haritatos clash with Coltart
Vangelis Peter Haritatos has hit back at lawyer Doug Coltart for alleging that he had abused his authority by parking his vehicle in a bay reserved for Persons with Disabilities.Posting on X o...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 11:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Umvutcha farm dispute referred to Constitutional Court
LANDS minister Anxious Masuka has been taken to the Constitutional Court over a raging farm dispute in Umvutcha on the outskirts of Bulawayo.Farmer Alistair Michael Fletcher (81) is challengin...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:39hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
World Bank calls on Zimbabwe to develop insurance scheme for informal workers
The World Bank, a global financial institution, has urged Zimbabwe to establish an insurance scheme for workers in the informal sector. The recommendation includes utilizing the mobile money ecosystem...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 19:48hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disciplines land invaders
The ruling party Zanu-PF has implemented disciplinary measures against the Mutare DCC Chairman and certain party members implicated in the unlawful sale and allocation of land.In a statement f...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 09:01hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF draws line in the sand
Zanu-PF has demanded that all illegal land occupations, sale or parcelling out of land and stands, as well as illegal developments, stop forthwith, as the ruling party only supports planned settlement...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 08:51hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Prominent farmer dies in traffic accident
A PROMINENT Insiza and former national Seedco Farmer of the Year Mr Jonathan Silumbula Nsingo on Saturday tragically died in a road traffic accident just after Chalets leisure centre along the Bulaway...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 17:33hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZACC officials recover US$29m assets offshore
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has recovered externalised assets by corrupt citizens worth US$29 million, a new report submitted to Parliament has revealed.Experts say the sout...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 17:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Depleted local food produce constrains access to income ahead of 2024 season: FEWS NET
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) has reported that depleted own-produced food stocks, has constrained access to income, and high food prices will likely drive Crisis (IPC Phase 3) o...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 13:26hrs | 10 | by Stephen Jakes
New land audit report set to expose Zimbabwe land grab by political elites
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was Wednesday handed the final audit report on 254,538 farms in what is set to lift the lid on the country's widely disproportionate land ownership patterns post-the land ...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to decentralise teacher recruitment
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is actively implementing several measures to tackle the various challenges afflicting the education sector, which include shortages of teachers and scho...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to 'punish' dishonest cotton farmers
The government is taking action against cotton farmers who were provided with presidential inputs but failed to deliver their crops to the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) during the 2023 selling s...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:47hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
USAid allocates US$1 million to Zimbabwe returnees
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has allocated approximately $1 million to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to initiate a 14-month project aimed at enha...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 15:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Politics of ethnicity: Jumping from the pan into the fire
BELOW is a book excerpt from In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas and Solutions) by Professor Arthur Mutambara.President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet shocked many b...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 08:31hrs | 9 | by Arthur Mutambara
Hailstorm ravages Beitbridge
On Tuesday evening, heavy rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms caused extensive property damage valued at thousands of dollars in the Lesanth resettlement area, located in Ward 13 of Beitbridge distr...Published: 28 Sep 2023 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's citrus farm destroyed by fire
A fire has ravaged an unspecified area of citrus crops on Concorpia Farm in Mazowe, which is owned by Saviour Kasukuwere, a former Cabinet minister who has been in self-imposed exile. Kasukuwere had e...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 17:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP threatens to evict settlers for supporting opposition
Concerns are growing over potential retaliatory actions by Zanu-PF against Chiwundura plot holders, who are facing possible eviction due to their alleged support for the Citizens' Coalition for Change...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hubby beats man to death for insulting his wife
A MASVINGO man allegedly beat another man to death for insulting his wife.Taurai Murozvi Mabviso (34) is on the run after allegedly killing Ernest Chakauya (43) on 16 September 202...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 19:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High Court stops Zimbabwe's lands minister from grabbing farm
The High Court has intervened to halt the lands ministry's efforts to seize a 50-hectare farm in Mount Hampden from a man who has held ownership since 1981.The government had officially design...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 20:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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