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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 accusat...Published: 7 hrs ago | 266 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Mnangagwa's white ally in land grab scandal?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly behind the imminent eviction of a number of productive indigenous farmers, including war veterans and the reigning young farmer of the year from Goromonzi, M...Published: 01 Mar 2025 at 09:31hrs | 3434 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi son farm dispute: Villagers flee to mountains
Villagers at Arnold Farm in Mazowe have fled their homes and sought refuge in the mountains, fearing for their lives after protesting against an attempted land takeover by one of Vice-President Kembo ...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:57hrs | 564 | 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 | 26 | by Staff reporter
UMVUCHA FARM DEBACLE: Separating facts from fiction
In recent times, social media platforms have become powerful tools for disseminating information and shaping public opinion. Hopewell Chin'ono, a prominent Zimbabwean journalist, has gained significan...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 13:24hrs | 18 | by Nicholas Ncube
Zimbabwe farm dispute opens can of worms
THE land dispute between Zanu-PF Hurungwe East legislator Chenjerai Kangausaru and a communal farmer Vincent Tendayi has opened a can of worms.Kangausaru, who has been tussling with Tendayi ov...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 05:55hrs | 12 | 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
Mutinhiri in bitter farm dispute
FORMER Marondera East legislator Tracy Mutinhiri is embroiled in a bitter land dispute with a white commercial farmer Rijk Yates over the ownership of a farm in the district.Yates was contract...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa wins farm dispute
MORE than 59 illegal occupiers of a farm owned by businessman and politician Philip Chiyangwa have to vacate the land immediately after they lost their bid to remain in occupation of the farm without ...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:40hrs | 4 | 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
New twist to Umguza farm dispute
A ROW over the ownership of Roslee Farm in Umguza District in Matabeleland North has spilled into the High Court with a Bulawayo company seeking to boot out one of its shareholders, Mr Zephaniah Matiw...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni saga: 2 judges recuse themselves
TWO Bulawayo High Court judges Justices Nokuthula Moyo and Christopher Dube Banda have recused themselves in a case where Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has been dragged to court ove...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:24hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni farm former owner puts weight behind Malunga
THE former owner of Esikadeni farm, which has been at the centre of an ownership dispute pitting its local shareholders and government, has said he disposed of his stake in the dairy business to three...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:58hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni Farm dispute takes new twist
Lawyers representing Dr Gatsha Mazithulela have written to the three "erstwhile" directors of Kershelmar Farms in Nyamandlovu, Matabeleland North Province, challenging them to disclose the circumstanc...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZRP Support Unit embroiled in farm dispute
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police Support Unit in Shamva has been accused of invading a farm belonging to one Cyril Gunda, in a matter that spilled into the courts yesterday.Gunda is seeking an order t...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko will be arrested, says Zacc
FORMER vice-president Phelekezela Mphoko has said he is not corrupt, and never stole anything during his time in office.Mphoko said this during an interrogation by Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Com...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes Lands Commission
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), headed by Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo, has instituted investigations into the operations of the Lands Commission in Marondera.The probe comes aft...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sibling killed in farm dispute
A Mutasa man has been arrested for killing his brother in a dispute over their father's farm. Richard Zongoro (41) of Hamudikuwanda Village B under Chief Mutasa allegedly murdered his brother ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
A2 farmers evicted
Some A2 farmers in Goromonzi have been evicted from the land allocated to them in 2007 and are now living in the open.The farmers were issued with offer letters by former Minister of Lands and...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 15:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Minister in farm dispute with villagers
Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba is embroiled in a land dispute with Mutasa villagers whom she is accusing of occupying her farm.The villagers appeared before a Mutasa ...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mixed feelings over Mphoko donation
COMMUNITIES in Bulawayo have expressed mixed feelings over Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's day-old chicks donations, with some accusing the politician of "dumping substandard" birds on them,...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 12:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe court acquits ex-Rhodesia premier's grandson
A Bulawayo magistrate has acquitted former Rhodesian Premier Howard Unwin Moffat's grandson, Robert Bruce, of charges of illegal occupation of gazetted land.Bruce has since 2015 been embro...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 06:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Rhodesian premier’s grandson back in court over farm
EX-RHODESIAN premier, Howard Unwin Moffat’s grandson, Robert Bruce, who has for a long time been embroiled in a farm dispute with the late ex-Zipra official and State security agent, Collen Shav...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
CBZ Bank sues Chombo's ex-wife $157,000
HOME Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo's former wife Ms Marian Chombo (nee Mhloyi), who is fighting to control New Allan Grange Farm in Raffingora, has been slapped with a $157 000 lawsuit over an ...Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi drags Grace Mugabe to court
Senator Tambudzani Mohadi has threatened to drag First Lady Grace Mugabe to court over a farm dispute.Mohadi is in court in a bid to wrestle away a Gwanda farm from a white commercial farmer G...Published: 02 Oct 2016 at 09:07hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Mohadi invades banana farm
Beitbridge senator Tambudzani Mohadi, Zanu-PF Matabeleland South provincial chairperson Rabelani Choeni and a few villagers last week, in defiance of presidential directives, allegedly invaded Dou...Published: 04 Sep 2016 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean white farmer's stay on prize farm sparks fresh dispute
THE Minister of Rural Development, Preservation of Culture and Heritage, Abedinico Ncube and Chief Nyangazonke have clashed over the presence of Peter Cunningham, a white commercial farmer, at the dis...Published: 30 May 2016 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Mashudu Netsianda
Mphoko orders CIO chief out of Maleme Ranch
VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday showed his hand in a farm dispute that has caused turmoil in a small community in Matobo, Matabeleland South, as he ordered a senior state intelligence off...Published: 16 Mar 2015 at 09:28hrs | 4 | by Auxilia Katongomara
John Nkomo family blasts police
LATE Vice-President John Landa Nkomo's family has blamed the police for the incarceration of his former bodyguard for attempted murder after shooting a rival farmer's brother.Eddie Sigoge (66)...Published: 11 Sep 2014 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
John Nkomo's former aide jailed
LATE Vice-President John Landa Nkomo's chief security officer and former Zipra commander Eddie Sigoge (66) was on Friday condemned to prison for four years after being convicted of attempting to kill...Published: 10 Sep 2014 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets protest farm seizure
Former Zipra fighters yesterday waded into the Figtree farm dispute pitting commercial farmer David Connolly and deputy chief secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet Ray Ndhlukula aft...Published: 19 Aug 2014 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos as ex-workers attack black farmer
A Goromonzi farmer was on Tuesday assaulted by a group of ex-farm workers who are resisting eviction from his Bromley Farm.Several other people were injured, with one person reported missing f...Published: 16 Jul 2014 at 21:14hrs | | by Nomalanga Moyo
Obert Mpofu in farm dispute
A LAND dispute that erupted after war veterans in Nyamandlovu invaded a farm belonging to an indigenous Zimbabwean has sucked in Umguza MP and Transport minister Obert Mpofu.Ten families were...Published: 13 Feb 2014 at 05:51hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
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