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Chitungwiza eyes growth with town expansion project
Chitungwiza is gearing up for a major transformation aimed at shedding its longstanding image as merely a dormitory town for Harare and emerging as a self-sustaining, resilient urban centre by the yea...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:34hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mines ministry steps up EPOs review
The Ministry of Mines and Mining Development is intensifying its review of Exclusive Prospecting Orders (EPOs) as part of a broader effort to eliminate speculative land holding and unlock Zimbabwe's v...Published: 09 May 2025 at 11:01hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Chadzamira grabs widow's property
Ezra Chadzamira, the Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Masvingo, is embroiled in a legal dispute with a widow whose 8-hectare plot he allegedly seized in Morningside, Masving...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 13:31hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally in land grab storm
A prominent ally of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and a senior Zanu-PF official, Voyage Dhambuza, has appeared in court on charges of land grabbing and unlawfully allocating council land to homeseekers...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 06:58hrs | 333 | 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 | 556 | by Staff reporter
UK-based lawyer in Victoria Falls area land grabbing storm
Gregory Philip Mabuza, a lawyer based in the UK who frequently visits his hometown of Victoria Falls, is embroiled in a contentious land dispute in Monde, a suburb of Victoria Falls. Mabuza, who claim...Published: 20 Aug 2024 at 10:59hrs | 824 | by Staff reporter
Chikwaka Villagers Terrorized by Land Grabbing 'Authoritarian' Headman Mungoni
An area under Chief Chikwaka in Murehwa is in turmoil as Headman Edmore Mungoni continues to terrorize villagers by seizing ancestral lands in Ward 10. The residents of Udebwe and Dzvete villa...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 22:34hrs | 76 | by Staff Reporte
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 | 3 | by Ian Scoones
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Whites on Zimbabwe farms are entitled to be there,' says Minister
MATABELELAND North Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Richard Moyo yesterday said Government will decisively deal with criminals who are in the habit of illegally occupying private land in vio...Published: 29 Dec 2023 at 07:05hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Bona, Chikore don't own land in Carrick Creagh'
A private land development company, Arosume Property Development (Pvt) Limited, has said that the stands totalling 213 794 square metres in Carrick Creagh and listed in divorce papers as belonging to ...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:01hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths urged to shun corrupt activities
THE Zanu-PF Youth League national executive members have been challenged to exhibit a high level of discipline through shunning corrupt activities that may tarnish the image of the party.Speak...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe @42 where exactly did we go wrong?
It really pains me when I look at what my country has become today four decades into independence. We have regressed so much.I couldn't think that one day I would board a plane to a war torn c...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 12:40hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
ESIDAKENI FARM SAGA: Plot against Obert Mpofu exposed
Obert Mpofu is a popular brand in Zimbabwean politics and media. Mpofu is a man who needs no introduction as he is a political heavyweight who has navigated his way through different political landsca...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 09:54hrs | 19 | by Nicholas Ncube
Machete wielding ZANU-PF officials implicate July Moyo in land grabbing
Machete wielding ZANU PF officials allegedly pounced on Jowani Masowe Nyenyedzi nomwe shrine threatening to drive the congregants away saying they were se...Published: 28 Oct 2021 at 21:14hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa mourns of ill-treatment by way of sanctions at the UN
Mnangagwa says Sanctions against Zimbabwe are in breach of international law. May I remind this illegitimate President that it is actually his poor governance and policies also his refusal of all form...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Bigboy Sibanda
Cry our beloved 'Sunshine City'
In the mid-1990s, I left my village in Guruve to work in Harare and it was a city of bliss and flamboyance. My uncle Obedience Masakara, who was streetwise aat the time, took me around the city centre...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Zanu-PF 'regrabbing' Professor Jonathan Moyo's Farm(s)
President ED Mnangagwa shocked the entire globe last week when he threatened to reclaim 16 farms (that were grabbed in the name of land reform) by the family of the former President RG Mugabe. Within ...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 11:13hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Mphoko-Choppiesgate scandal reflects a deep-rooted corruption In ZANU PF party & government
It is known by the public that ZANU PF party and government comprise of thieves and evil spirits masquerading as leaders. They deliberately organized their land grabbing to steal from the citizens in ...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 09:20hrs | 10 | by Don Chigumba
Shiri shows no mercy for illegal farmers
The Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Perence Shiri has showed lack of concern over illegal settlers who had their structures torched in Guruve South, Mashonaland Central recently....Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 14:41hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
WikiLeaks: 25 most corrupt ministers and public figures in Zimbabwe
These individuals will never be prosecuted by the Mnangagwa government because he is involved with entirely all of them. Either they were in the deal together or they know too much of his own dirty de...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 11:06hrs | 104 | by WikiLeaks
Chiwenga will be the Vice President with more power than Mnangagwa
The unfolding of the events in Zanu-PF clearly shows that Mnangagwa is not what we think he is but just a puppet of Chiwenga. His inauguration message was subscribed by the majority but ...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 07:08hrs | 11 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Welshman Ncube MDC celebrates international human rights day
MDC led by Welshman Ncube has joined the world in celebrating the the international human rights day."Zimbabweans commemorate Human Rights day and the MDC joins the world in observing this ico...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe survived through violence
The MDC led by Welshman Ncube has said former President Robert Mugabe never in his rule used peace as a means of running the country but survived through violence."On a correct historical anal...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 09:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe backyard rocked by land scandal
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's home district is at the centre of a massive land-grabbing and corruption scandal by land barons working with local authorities, gathering a dark cloud over government plans t...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 10:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Why Zanu-PF want to remain in power
ZANU-PF will fight tooth and nail to retain power at all possible costs just because of their well established fear they will face if they lose the forthcoming 2018 elections.The ruling party ...Published: 23 May 2017 at 23:01hrs | 1 | by Pythias Makonese
Kasukuwere admitting to Zanu-PF messy not good enough - PDP
The recent statement made before parliament by Saviour Kasukuwere in which he confessed that ZANUPF is involved in illegal land deals is an indictment on his part and that of ZANUPF at large including...Published: 10 Feb 2017 at 13:41hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Zimbabweans Unite!
Since 1980, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU PF "B Team" have demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that they are grossly incompetent to deal with public affairs. History will ju...Published: 12 Jan 2017 at 23:08hrs | 16 | by Charles Moyo
This and that with Mal'phosa - How The Mighty Have Fallen
A friend sent me a picture of the once untouchable, formidable and all too powerful former speaker of parliament and former Zanu secretary for administration, and former Member of parliament fo...Published: 23 Oct 2016 at 12:58hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
Let us unite and fight in one corner
MLO condemns in all strongest terms the eviction without compensation, unlawful arrest and mistreatment of the affected poor villagers of Kezi by greedy land looters from Mashonaland to make way f...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 12:19hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
BCC councillors under probe over dodgy 'land deals'
THE government has deployed a commission of inquiry to investigate corruption allegations against some Bulawayo councillors accused of land grabbing.The permanent secretary in the Ministry of ...Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:15hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
MDC-T plans Bulawayo protest
THE MDC-T is planning a demonstration on Bulawayo streets next month in a bid to prop up its councillors who are under attack for alleged corruption and running down the city. The planned demonstratio...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 07:07hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Kasukuwere must stop his madness
While Zimbabwe is on a charm offensive aimed at convincing the international community to support Zimbabwe's debt relief strategy and attract new funding, at home the actions of the ZANU PF government...Published: 25 Apr 2016 at 14:33hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP National Spokesperson
Bulawayo residents petition MPs over land deals
BULAWAYO residents have petitioned Parliament to order an investigation into alleged illegal land grabbing involving some local councillors. The residents said in the petition: "Our attention ...Published: 25 Apr 2016 at 06:41hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Politics of Starvation and Decay: Zimbabwe and the Year Behind (2015) and Beyond (2016)
No doubt, Zimbabwe has emerged much poorer than before based on the politics of insensitivity, self-aggrandizement, decay and poverty in collective good will of leadership. In 1980, Zimbabwe obtained ...Published: 30 Dec 2015 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Militarism and Corruption in Zimbabwe: Evidence of why Elections cannot be a free/fair tool
Militarism connotes predominance of military class, exultation of military values including force of violence and distancing of the army much further from the people for purposes of controlling power ...Published: 08 Nov 2015 at 18:35hrs | 1 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Zanu-PF Politburo meets today
THE Zanu-PF Politburo is expected to meet today at 9am at the party headquarters in Harare. Zanu-PF secretary for Administration Ignatius Chombo confirmed the 291st meeting yesterday. He, howe...Published: 09 Sep 2015 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Politburo meets tomorrow
The Zanu-PF Politburo is expected to meet tomorrow at 9am at the party headquarters in Harare. Zanu-PF secretary for Administration, Ignatius Chombo confirmed the 291st meeting yesterday. The last...Published: 08 Sep 2015 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Housing co-operatives sue Chikwinya for land grabbing
Women's Affairs minister Nyasha Chikwinya has been taken to court for allegedly falsifying documents to claim ownership of land occupied by a housing cooperative in Harare North.Mama MaFu...Published: 20 Aug 2015 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe is plain greedy
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's family has emerged as one of the biggest land owners in the aftermath of the controversial land reform programme, which he championed ostensibly to correct skewed owners...Published: 10 Jan 2015 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Its time to dissolve government
The ZANU PF leadership crisis has created one of the rarest constitutional opportunities to overthrow it from government. Sometime in 2007 Jonathan Moyo said "That Mugabe must go is no-longer a sl...Published: 10 Dec 2014 at 08:39hrs | | by Shephard Dube
MDC want Grace Mugabe's Zupco posters removed
THE Welshman Ncube-led MDC yesterday petitioned the Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda, Transport and Infrastructure Development minister Obert Mpofu and the Local Government minister Ignatius Chomb...Published: 03 Nov 2014 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malema's EFF project: A force to reckon with or another stillbirth?
Background In the last few days there has been a lot of excitement and reportage about the formation of the EFF [Economic Freedom Fighters] initiated ...Published: 17 Oct 2013 at 02:13hrs | 3 | by Bigboy Mthombeni
How Africa can transform land tenure, revolutionize agriculture, and end poverty
A Ten Step Plan for Change WASHINGTON - Sub-Saharan Africa is home to nearly half of the world's usable, uncultivated land but so far the continent...Published: 23 Jul 2013 at 06:39hrs | | by World Bank
Zimbabweans squatters grabbing land in Namibia
WINDHOEK - Residents of Thlabanello 3 - a new informal settlement adjacent to Windhoek's Goreangab informal settlement – are threatening action against Zimbab...Published: 29 May 2012 at 10:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Farmers want to take Mugabe to the African court
Farmers Ben Freeth and Luke Tembani want to take President Robert Mugabe to the African Court, accusing him of human rights violations and racist and illegal land grabbing.Freeth and Tembani ...Published: 16 Feb 2012 at 19:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe appears to have misled Malema on nationalisation
After a visit to Harare, Zimbabwe in 2010, African National Congress Youth League Leader Julius Malema became even more forthright in his views on nationalisation of mines and land reform campaigns....Published: 24 Jun 2011 at 05:12hrs | 3 | by Munesu Benjamin Shoko
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