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High court orders eviction in land dispute

A long-running property wrangle in Bulawayo has been settled after the High Court ordered the eviction of a woman who claimed to have bought land nearly 20 years ago, but could not produce valid proof of ownership.Justice Evangelista Kabas…

Published: 06 Sep 2025 at 20:05hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter

Mbare residents face eviction

Harare City Council (HCC) has issued a 14-day ultimatum to tenants living in Mbare flats to settle outstanding rental arrears or face eviction, despite the residents enduring squalid and deteriorating living conditions.In a notice dated Ju…

Published: 14 Aug 2025 at 10:39hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter

Mafume orders fresh demolitions, evictions

Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume has directed the city council to reverse all leases and demolish illegal structures encroaching on Robert Mugabe Square, following a stern directive from Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe.The move follows Min…

Published: 10 Aug 2025 at 09:56hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter

ZBC loses eviction cases

The High Court has dealt a major blow to the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC)'s attempts to evict its former employees from Hatley House flats in Harare, striking off its application for violating procedural rules by unlawfully cons…

Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 09:10hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo councillor arrested after axe drama in farm dispute

BULAWAYO - July 18, 2025 - Ward 1 Bulawayo ZANU PF Councillor Mutangi was arrested earlier today following dramatic scenes involving alleged threats with an axe, defiance of a court order, and accusations of abusing the ruling party's name…

Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 16:59hrs | 1 | by Nkululeko Nkomo

Court blocks eviction of indigenous Zimbabwe farmers

High Court Justice Regis Dembure has ruled against the eviction of indigenous farmers at Springs Farm in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East Province, condemning the withdrawal of their offer letters by Land and Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka…

Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 08:53hrs | 762 | by Staff reporter

Plot holders battle eviction

A group of plot holders in Irene Township, Mutasa district, Manicaland province, is fighting to stop their eviction from land they say they legally purchased shortly after Zimbabwe's independence.The dispute pits the plot holders - many of…

Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 08:13hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter

Shuvai Mahofa's family faces eviction threat

The family of the late Zanu-PF politician, Shuvai Mahofa, may soon be evicted from a farm she seized during Zimbabwe's land reform era, amid claims that Deputy Minister of Environment, Climate and Wildlife, John Paradza, is orchestrating a…

Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 15:14hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter

High Court reverses Clipsham settlers eviction

The High Court has quashed the convictions, sentences, and eviction orders against 19 settlers from Clipsham after it found that the land in question was not legally gazetted as State land.Justice Sunsley Zisengwe, sitting at the High Cour…

Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 18:50hrs | 781 | by Staff reporter

Vumbachikwe Mine moves to evict workers still occupying company houses after 2022 closure

GWANDA, Matabeleland South - Management at the struggling Vumbachikwe Mine has filed court summons seeking the eviction of two workers from company-owned houses, despite hundreds of others still occupying the premises following the mine's …

Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 22:25hrs | 479 | by Stephen Jakes

9,000 Harare tenants face eviction

Approximately 9,000 residents renting accommodation from the Harare City Council (HCC) are at risk of eviction due to failure to pay rentals, city officials have confirmed.The revelation came from HCC housing manager Edgar Dzehonye, who di…

Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 08:59hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter

Tensions escalate as Zimbabwean villagers resist land takeover

Tensions are mounting in the Malipati area of Chiredzi as a land dispute involving local villagers, their headman, and outside investors threatens to destabilise the community. Several villagers have been summoned by local traditional auth…

Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:10hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe orders immediate eviction of illegal rural land occupiers

The Government has issued a stern warning to all individuals occupying State land illegally, particularly in rural areas, demanding that they vacate such land immediately or face prosecution under the law.In a strongly worded statement rel…

Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 16:19hrs | 60174 | by Staff reporter

Villagers dragged to court for resisting eviction

Thirty-five villagers from Warwick Farm in Zvimba were denied bail on Monday when they appeared before Harare Magistrate Apollonia Marutya, facing charges of inciting public violence in relation to a land dispute.The accused, who are being…

Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 11:57hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter

Businessman loses mansion eviction, sale appeal

Frank Humbe, a Harare businessman, has suffered a setback in his ongoing legal battle over a disputed property in Borrowdale, as the Supreme Court has dismissed his appeal against the High Court's decision to strike off his application for…

Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 06:35hrs | 851 | by Staff reporter

Prominent businessman being evicted from his US$1.5 million mansion

Prominent local businessman Tendai Mashamhanda is currently being evicted from his US$1.5 million mansion in upmarket Highlands following a Supreme Court ruling that he fraudulently acquired the property while it was under judicial attachm…

Published: 25 Jun 2024 at 12:57hrs | 28 | 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 families by a property mogul.Manhanzva …

Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 07:08hrs | 1 | 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, Matabeleland South province.Mzila-Nldovu, a Zipr…

Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:04hrs | 11 | 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 the request for eviction order against "illegal…

Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 21:05hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF bigwigs evict CCC tenants from Gutu shops

Tenants who support CCC are being evicted from shops owned by Zanu-PF bigwigs in the sprawling district of Gutu.Some of the reasons given for the evictions are that they the tenatnts are allowing their party supporters to drink from the pr…

Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

More stands to be developed in Bulawayo

MORE than 1 600 housing stands are set to be developed in Bulawayo as the city ups its housing development strategy in a bid to reduce the housing backlog. The housing backlog in the city, which stands at just over 150 000 has been a cause…

Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:12hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF supporters face eviction

THOUSANDS of Zanu-PF supporters, who are living on a farm owned by Crest Breeders International, have been ordered to vacate the area to pave way for urban expansion.The area is in Harare South constituency which is under Zanu-PF.According…

Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter

Villagers living in fear of eviction

MUTOKO'S Karimazondo and Chingamuka villagers are living in fear after "some" Chinese officials informed them that they would be relocated to pave way for mining operations.The community members made efforts to seek clarity from the invest…

Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Zela

Evictions fiasco rocks Mnangagwa govt

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government was forced to hold crisis meetings after a controversial edict paving the way for the eviction of thousands of Chiredzi villagers caused an uproar.The government wants to remove the more than 12 00…

Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 13:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF steps in as 10 000 face eviction

MORE than 10 000 villagers in Insiza District in Matabeleland South face eviction from their homesteads after the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement issued them with eviction orders alleging that they wer…

Published: 05 May 2019 at 12:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

ZBC partner fights eviction order

The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has been taken to court by Blackbury Enterprises after the national broadcaster allegedly clandestinely sought to evict the company despite an agreement to operate a second television channel.Acc…

Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's minister in another farm eviction storm

Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba is in another farm eviction storm - this time involving 21 villagers who allege she is encroaching into their land to expand her Penhalonga farm.They claim to have assisted her famil…

Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 13:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

No to ruthless eviction of illegal traders from the streets - NPP

Revolutionary greetings comrades. The blame for the Zimbabwean economic meltdown must be placed where it belongs, at the door steps of Zanu Pf. The blame must rest squarely on the shoulders of Zanu Pf. Corruption coupled with the liquidati…

Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Khulani David Ndhlovu

Grace Mugabe strikes again

FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday reportedly intensified her bid to evict Arnold Farm villagers to pave way for the expansion of her business empire in Mazowe, with Zanu-PF youth members allegedly destroying the villagers' makeshift shelte…

Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Roderick Mutuma unsettled, family face eviction

Highlanders FC striker Roderick Mutuma is an unsettled man as his family is facing eviction in Harare over unpaid rentals.His family is in Budiriro suburb and owe March and April rentals.Back in Bulawayo, Mutuma only got $500 from his sign…

Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter

Zim Big Brother Africa rep up for eviction

AFTER being on honeymoon for the past four weeks, Butterphly's holiday is finally over as she has been put up for possible eviction from the Big Brother Africa (BBA) Hotshots game - a move which will likely shake things up for her.This wil…

Published: 05 Nov 2014 at 11:25hrs | 2 | by Melissa Mpofu

Diasporan seeks eviction of elderly Romney Park woman

 AN ELDERLY woman from Romney Park in Bulawayo faces eviction from a house after the death of her husband who had reportedly agreed with his employer that she would buy the couple a house after failing to pay him for more than 22 year…

Published: 02 Jul 2013 at 05:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Third Big Brother housemate evicted

Nkuli, one of South Africa's representatives in the Big Brother Africa (Amplified) reality show has become the third housemate to be evicted from the show - after Sunday's live eviction show.She was up for eviction with fellow South Africa…

Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 09:31hrs | 7 | by Moyo Roy

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