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Ex-ZIPRA War Veteran Slams Land Reversals and Compensation to White Farmers
An outspoken ex-ZIPRA war veteran, Max Mkandla, has expressed outrage over two main reasons why Zimbabweans went to war against the colonial regime of Ian Douglas Smith, highlighting alarming developm...Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 16:27hrs | 596 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa under fire over controversial land to Rautenbach
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing mounting criticism after it emerged that his close business associate, Muller Conrad "Billy" Rautenbach, is receiving over 1,000 hectares of productive farmland ...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 10:01hrs | 1825 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over multi-million-dollar land transfer deal to Chiyangwa
A controversial land compensation deal between the Government of Zimbabwe and businessman-cum-politician Philip Chiyangwa has sparked public outrage and renewed scrutiny over how state land is being a...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 20:34hrs | 3055 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe issues dollar bonds to pay ex-farmers for land grabs
Zimbabwe issued treasury bonds worth $308 million and made small cash payments to White farmers who were dispossessed of their property 25 years ago under a state-backed land reform program.Th...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 09:16hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe white former farmers start receiving compensation
The Government of Zimbabwe has begun compensating white former commercial farmers whose land was repossessed during the Land Reform Programme, marking a pivotal step in the country's efforts to resolv...Published: 10 Apr 2025 at 09:01hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
Time Bank offers war vets US$3,5bn
TIME Bank has offered a US$3.5 billion compensation package to Zimbabwe's liberation war veterans as part of its broader US$38 billion loan proposal to the government. This development follows signifi...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 12:33hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt official in US$1,5m land scandal
A senior official from the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works, Everest Nyamadzawo, appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday facing allegations of extorting over US$1.5 million fro...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 06:52hrs | 3968 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to compensate white former farmers over 10 years instead of 20
Zimbabwe will compensate white farmers, whose land was taken, over 10 years instead of the 20 announced three years ago, finance minister Mthuli Ncube said on Thursday, adding that the money would be ...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fulfils land compensation obligations?
WITH allocations in next year's budget and the Government and white former commercial farmers ready to work together to raise funds through long-term bonds, the farmers will start receiving compensati...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Medium-scale commercial farming in Zimbabwe post-land reform programme: A new picture is emerging
WE have a new open access paper out in the Journal of Modern African Studies "Medium-scale commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe: The experience of A2 resettlement farms".Contrary to assertions t...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 05:02hrs | 4 | by Ian Scoones
Zanu-PF functionaries invade protected farm
ZANU-PF Masvingo provincial officials have grabbed a massive flourishing ranch in Chiredzi owned by an Italian national and ring-fenced under a Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement ...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Land probe opens can of worms
GOVERNMENT'S latest blitz on land barons has exposed serious political undercurrents, with one of the suspected barons, Wellington Peyama, sensationally claiming that he was being hounded by Housing a...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Has Sadc Tribunal Rights Watch signed a treaty with Zimbabwe?
I READ with great interest a re cent letter to the editor by Ben Freeth in which he raises issue with the government of Zimbabwe regarding the land compensation question and property rights of individ...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Zimbabwe Parliament should veto land compensation
ZIMBABWE in 2000 embarked on a revolutionary nationalisation of agricultural land that saw a massive 4 500 white commercial farmers pushed out of their land without compensation. The fast-track land r...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 3 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zanu-PF in a countrywide tour to clarify land compensation agreement
The ruling Zanu-PF party has embarked on a countrywide tour to clarify the correct position regarding the land issue.Following the signing of the Global Compensation Agreement on the 29th of J...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 14:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF threatens ministers
ANU-PF politburo member Patrick Chinamasa yesterday said the Cabinet must answer to the ruling party, and threatened they would fire ministers that do not file reports with the secretariat, igniting a...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
A year after Mugabe's death
WHEN Zimbabwe's founding leader Robert Mugabe died exactly a year ago today, for many it was unimaginable any leader who comes after him would repeat hismistakes.Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa defends police brutality
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday defended State security agents' recent brutal clampdown on protesters, saying they were simply enforcing COVID-19 lock-down regulations. Mnangagwa also di...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:36hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Masarira slams Mnangagwa
Linda Masarira, leader of the Labour Economists and Afrikan Democats (LEAD), opposition party, has slammed the country's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, for initiating the land compensation progr...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:49hrs | 18 | by Daniel Itai
Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance statement on Zanu-PF back licking the West
Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance Youth League notes that in a way to cheat their way out of the current economic turmoil, the incumbent ZANU PF regime led by ED Mnangagwa has back stepped on the land ref...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by Thabiso Nxumalo
Mnangagwa, war vets cross swords over land compensation
WAR veterans have written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government demanding that he shelves his US$3,5 billion compensation pact with white former commercial farmers, describing the move as highl...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:41hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in trouble over land compensation
National Patriotic Front Jealousy Mawarire is blowing his top over revelations that former white commercial farmers might get back land as compensation than agree to take money. Commercial Far...Published: 15 May 2019 at 20:49hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa forging ahead with land compensation despite growing criticism
Zimbabwe was proceeding with the compensation of former commercial farmers who were displaced during the country's agrarian report despite growing criticism against the policy, President Emerson Mnang...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Whites score big against blacks - land compensation
Land is and was at the centre of all political developments for the indigenous black Zimbabwean population's pre and post independence movements. The liberation war against white minority rule's black...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 15:37hrs | 1 | by Terence Simbi
Land compensation and IMF re-engagement: A legacy of an Anti-poor government.
The full import of Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe is open for business mantra is now being painfully realized by the working class of Zimbabwe. Salaries of the workers have been eroded, the majority of our popu...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 20:10hrs | 10 | by Obert Masaraure
Malema loves to attack Zimbabwean leaders
Malema this week came pout on eNCA TV news calling for President Mnangagwa a sale out and urges him to step down. This was because Zimbabwe has started compensate farmers. The Righ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 11:52hrs | 14 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe to engage Germany, Netherlands over land compensation
Zimbabwe will soon engage in high level negotiations with Germany and the Netherlands on the compensation of evicted former white commercial farmers who lost their land reform exercise. Source...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Settling land compensation issue vital for Zimbabwe's economy
IN his inaugural address, the new President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, confirmed that land reform was both historically necessary and irreversible.He also made a commitment to compensate...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Ian Scoones
Musings from an outgoing minister Chinamasa
Zimbabwe should not heed any dictation by foreign institutions on how best to address outstanding issues to the land question, but should deal with the matter in terms of its Constitution, an outgoing...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tenders fresh agric land audit
ZIMBABWE will be commissioning a fresh agricultural land audit, about 15 years after the Charles Utete Commission report whose findings were never implemented, which will run alongside a review of the...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why EU embraced Mnangagwa govt
Since coming into power last November when the army forced former president Robert Mugabe to resign after it took over government, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made it a priority to normalise Zimb...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 22:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi meets EU, British envoys
The national peace and reconciliation process is wholly Zimbabwean and should be respected by every country, European Union ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Phillipe Van Damme said yesterday.Speaking...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 05:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Settling the land compensation issue is vital for Zimbabwe's economy
IN his inaugural address the new President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, confirmed that land reform was both historically necessary and irreversible. He also made a commitment to compensate farmers...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 12:45hrs | | by Ian Scoones
Mugabe's skeletons tumble out of the closet
FORMER president Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace are leasing out land they controversially seized from Interfresh Holdings Ltd's Mazoe citrus estate a few years ago to local businessman Hamish Rudlan...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rhodes estate should compensate white framers, not Mugabe
Compensation to white farmers for Zimbabwean land should be based on proper historic analysis that gives due credit when necessary but also brings the United Kingdom to the table as a responsible part...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 16:04hrs | 1 | by Ken Sibanda
Mujuru's British landmine
OPPOSITION National People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru's joy in addressing an international audience in Britain might face a hitch after it emerged her adversaries are cooking up a sinister ...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Lancaster House Accord needs amendment
I am writing this article in part to try and offer a viable solution for Zimbabwean democracy, and in part for regional peace in Southern Africa. The agreement which ushered in a democratic Zimb...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 13:58hrs | | by Ken Sibanda
Zimbabwe clinches $1 billion deal
The African Export-Import Bank and Lazard - a New York Stock Exchange-listed financier - will mobilise US$1,1 billion to help Zimbabwe clear its arrears with the World Bank and secure new funding....Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 12:03hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe govt faces $30 billion bill for land
ZIMBABWE'S cash-strapped government could face a US$30 billion bill for compensation of land expropriated from white farmers under the country's controversial land redistribution exercise that saw...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs economic transformation programme: IMF
THE International Monetary Fund has stressed that Zimbabwe should move fast to implement a comprehensive economic transformation programme saying there is no time to waste.The economic transfo...Published: 06 May 2016 at 08:24hrs | | by Business Reporter
'Zimbabwe constitution will guide land compensation'
There has been no policy shift by Government on the matter of compensation relating to land acquired under the Land Reform Programme, contrary to media reports last week, a Cabinet minister has said. ...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 06:57hrs | 10 | by Mabasa Sasa
PDP position on the Land Compensation Fund Framework
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) welcomes the proposed establishment of the Land Compensation Fund (LCF) which seeks to attract resources for the compensation of commercial farmers whose properties...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 06:51hrs | | by Vince Musewe - PDP Secretary for Finance and Economic Affairs.
Zimbabwe govt to dole out $10 billion to white farmers
GOVERNMENT is working on setting up a $10 billion compensation fund to settle disputes and bring closure to the fast-track land reform exercise.Since government embarked on the land reform exe...Published: 06 Mar 2016 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP urges govt to invest on youth
Zanu PF MP Terence Mukupe has urged the government to invest much on the youth who are the future of the nation.Speaking in parliament Mukupe said there was a proposal that there is going to b...Published: 18 Dec 2015 at 06:11hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
What Britain owes Zimbabwe
I HAVE written several articles that have addressed Zimbabwean human rights and rule of law, as well as South African foreign policy. I now turn my attention to Zimbabwean legal constitutional history...Published: 22 Jun 2015 at 20:40hrs | 1 | by Ken Sibanda
Mugabe is right - UK did promise compensation
Open letter to David Cameron, the British Prime Minister Compensating Zimbabwe's white commercial farmers will revive our nation's agriculture, reinstate lost value of our land assets and eras...Published: 30 May 2015 at 17:22hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Mujuru sucked in messy land row
VICE-PRESIDENT Joice Mujuru has been sucked into an acrimonious land ownership wrangle pitting the Development Trust of Zimbabwe (DTZ) against senior Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial members amid allegat...Published: 25 Apr 2014 at 08:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lose SA Constitutional Court appeal on land compensation
The Zimbabwe government lost a Constitutional Court appeal on Thursday against a SADC Tribunal costs order awarded to a group of farmers who challenged the loss of their land.The court dis...Published: 27 Jun 2013 at 11:27hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
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