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Town Council cracks down on land hoarding
Rusape Town Council has passed a bold resolution aimed at curbing land hoarding by requiring both residential and commercial landowners to develop their stands within 12 months or risk repossession....Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 13:19hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
'Land policy to identify multiple farm ownership'
The Government of Zimbabwe's newly introduced land tenure policy is set to identify and expose multiple farm ownership and reclaim idle land, which will be redistributed to more than 250,000 people on...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 08:53hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
Residents stampede to join Homeseekers4ED
HUNDREDS of Marondera residents are jostling to join the newly-formed Homeseekers for Economic Development (Homeseekers4ED) in anticipation of getting residential stands.The outfit, which has ...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 07:21hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa offers CFU president a Ministerial post?
The Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) president, Andrew Pascoe, is set to be appointed Minister of State, a move which will ensure the smooth flowing of compensation of former farm owners, Business Times...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 10:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Causes of food inflation in Zimbabwe
The World Bank recently released a report of the countries hardest hit by food inflation in the world. Zimbabwe tops that list with food inflation of 353% in the month of August 2022, beating Lebanon ...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 00:11hrs | 21 | by Victor Bhoroma
Villagers, miner clash over land
MZINYATHINI villagers in Umzingwane, Matabeleland South are up in arms against a miner they accuse of pegging his mining claims on their farmland.Ward 3 village co-ordinator David Mpofu confir...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | | 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
Non-productive farmers told to surrender land
Government is prepared to repossess land from farmers who are not fully utilising it and allocate it to deserving ones as it moves to strengthen the agricultural recovery plan ahead of Vision 2030....Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:00hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt warns 'cellphone' farmers
RESETTLED farmers, not fully utilising their land, have been told to surrender their properties or risk losing the farms to other deserving and productive citizens.The latest threats were issu...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt plots backdoor Chiredzi evictions
THE Zanu-PF government, stung by public outcry and a recent court ruling which annulled its planned mass eviction of Chilonga villagers in Chiredzi, has come up with a subtle ploy to pursue the matter...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to demolish illegal upmarket homes, lodges in Victoria Falls
The government is reportedly hunting for land barons who allegedly illegally parcelled communal land outside the world-class resort city amid indications more than 100 "illegal executive settlers" wil...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF member attacked in intra-party violence
ZANU-PF Manicaland provincial committee member, Moses Gutu was on Sunday evening attacked at his farm in Nyanga by suspected fellow party members as intra-party violence continues to rear its ugly hea...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Intra-party violence rocks Zanu-PF
ZANU PF Manicaland provincial committee member, Moses Gutu was on Sunday evening attacked at his farm in Nyanga by suspected fellow party members as intra-party violence continues to rear its ugly hea...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Exploring joint ventures for Special Economic Zones
The Zimbabwean government has designated various tracts of land as Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in a noble production oriented policy which requires follow through. The Special Economic Zones Act (Cha...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 10:15hrs | 13 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnangagwa launches crackdown on illegally settled farm occupiers
Hundreds of families have been left homeless after the government launched a crackdown on people who illegally settled on various farms countrywide.In Umguza, just outside Bulawayo, some 240 f...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:39hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Government finalising land audit
AGRICULTURE deputy minister Douglas Karoro told Parliament on Thursday that government plans to wrap up its nationwide land use audit next month and, thereafter, redistribute idle land to needy farmer...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's government set to redistribute land to all
In a new development, the government has announced that it would repossess all idle land and redistribute it to deserving farmers irrespective of their race and colour.Douglas Karoro, the Depu...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 08:07hrs | 40 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ready to seize idle land owned by Zanu-PF bigwigs
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly said that his government is "ready to seize any idle land owned by some of the ruling Zanu-PF party heavyweights".According to New Zimbabwe.com, Mna...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 17:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ready to seize idle land owned by top allies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his government was ready to seize and redistribute tracts of idle farmland mostly owned by his top Zanu-PF allies.This follows a land audit which unearthed mu...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 06:32hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Devolution: Laying ground for provincial economies
The 2019 Budget Statement allocates US$310 million for provincial and local tiers.This fulfils our promise to the electorate to uphold and implement Chapter 14 of our Constitution, which enjoi...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:15hrs | | by E D Mnangagwa
Con-Court ruling ends the silly season
The recent judgment handed down by the Constitutional Court put an end to a season of jest fronted by the MDC-Alliance's Nelson Chamisa and his supporting cast of pseudo-democrats and Twitter revoluti...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The tale of a jewel and a giant: Facts about revival of Zimbabwe's economy
The Country, Nation and Our WorldMany have talked, written and caricatured Zimbabwe as a country of educated but inept leaders. A country once a jewel of Africa brought down by corruption, greed a...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 17:35hrs | | by Vincent Gwarazimba
Mnangagwa hails Mashonaland West
Mashonaland West is a very important province in Zimbabwe as it provides the country with abundant economic opportunities in agriculture and mining, President Mnangagwa said recently.In his ad...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Cellphone farmers' have no room in Zimbabwe
While President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been making corrections on most disastrous policies former president Robert Mugabe was pursuing, his next call should be to bring order on the farms...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 11:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
White farmers see opportunity in Mugabe exit
Standing outside the gates of the farmhouse from which he was evicted in 2008, white Zimbabwean Deon Theron knows he will never get his land back.But he does believe that Robert Mugabe's fall ...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 08:49hrs | | by AFP
Mugabe repossesses idle land
Mugabe's government has withdrawn offer letters for resettled farmers whose land is lying idle, Lands and Rural Resettlement minister Douglas Mombeshora said. This year alone, authorities issu...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe repossesses idle farms
Government has started repossessing farms from unproductive beneficiaries of the controversial programme to redistribute land seized from white farmers.This comes as vast swathes of land taken...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 16:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ asset register in shambles
THE rundown National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is sitting on countrywide real estate estimated to be worth more than $150 million, with the potential to raise at least $5 million in rentals monthly....Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 10:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Prisons, Defence and Police under-utilising land- Chinamasa
The security sector is holding onto vast tracks of underutilised or idle land, Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa has said.Chinamasa pointed Prisons, Defence and the Police departments as ...Published: 09 Sep 2016 at 15:21hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Govt to reposes idle land
Lands Minister Douglas Mombeshora has again warned farmers that Government would not hesitate to reposes idle land from absent owners.He also said those who refuse to pay rentals would also be...Published: 28 Apr 2016 at 12:04hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Zimbabwe's new black farmers risk losing land over taxes
THE Government will cancel offer letters to all farmers who would fail to pay Development and Rental levies for three consecutive quarters, a Cabinet Minister has said.Presenting his 2016 budg...Published: 29 Nov 2015 at 06:02hrs | | by Business Reporter
Grace Mugabe rally - Live updates
First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe is in Manicaland Province, Chimanimani area where she is expected to address party supporters at Mutambara Mission before touring Cashel Valley Estates which comprises a v...Published: 08 Oct 2015 at 14:07hrs | | by Simiso Mlevu
Manicaland reduces farm sizes
The Manicaland Provincial Lands Committee has started the process of downsizing farms a move that would result in people who are failing to fully utilise their pieces of land losing it.The...Published: 09 Sep 2015 at 14:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt issues 3-year idle land ultimatum
GOVERNMENT has given unproductive beneficiaries of the land reform programme a three - year ultimatum to fully utilise their land or lose it to serious farmers who will aid the much-needed economic de...Published: 14 Jun 2015 at 11:14hrs | | by Robin Muchetu
'Make full use of allocated land or surrender it,' says Mugabe
THOSE allocated land and not in a position to fully utilise it should surrender it back for reallocation to other landless people, says President Mugabe.Speaking at the 21st Movement celebrati...Published: 08 Mar 2013 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Traditional leaders fight over white farmer
HEADMAN Chadworthy Chikwanda and his village head, Ernest Chirau are at each other's throats over a piece of land occupied by farmer, Ullic Westerman.Village head Chirau lodged an appeal with ...Published: 19 Jan 2013 at 10:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Education is not a panacea to economic transformation
JOHANNESBURG - Education is not a panacea of freedom, it is not a panacea of black economic emancipation as we have seen in Zimbabwe.I am still intrigued by the many responses of Moneyweb read...Published: 17 Aug 2011 at 14:35hrs | | by Vince Musewe
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