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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 | 265 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Timber shortage hits Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is grappling with a serious timber shortage that has left the local market heavily reliant on imports from neighbouring countries, particularly South Africa, as deep-rooted challenges continu...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 07:39hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
ZACC arrests opposition MP for 'illegal' land occupation
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested Patrick Sagandira, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Member of Parliament for Makoni Central, on allegations of unlawfully occupying a...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:47hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
MRP needs US$650k to intensify its self-determination international engagement
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) is appealing for US$ 650,000 to intensify international engagements that seek to push the Zimbabwean government to the negotiating table on its efforts to achieve se...Published: 07 Jun 2025 at 21:51hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Man seizes cop's gun during land dispute
A Ruwa man appeared before the Harare Magistrates Court on Thursday facing charges of public violence following a chaotic land dispute at Cloverdale Farm earlier this month.The accused, Garika...Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:54hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
High Court stops Mabvuku housing co-op land theft
The High Court has ordered the Kuyemura Housing Pay Scheme, a Mabvuku-based housing co-operative, to immediately halt its encroachment onto land owned by Eastwind Trust, a private developer. The devel...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 07:08hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers condemn forced evictions and demolition of homes in Zimbabwe
Human rights lawyers have strongly condemned the recent demolitions of houses and the forced eviction of Zimbabweans from their ancestral lands, labeling the actions as heartless and inhumane....Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 07:01hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army to evict land invaders
In a bid to address the growing issue of illegal settlements on farms, the Zimbabwean government has enlisted the assistance of the army to support the police in evicting land barons responsible for c...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 07:04hrs | 19680 | 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
Zimbabwean must report land deals corruption
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has emphasized the importance of a multi-sectoral approach to combat corruption, which is hindering the country's economic growth, and has urged the publ...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:43hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council worried about mushrooming shrines
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is increasingly concerned about the rise of apostolic sects conducting open-air worship in bushes, prompting a blitz to remove these illegal shrines. The Mthwakazi Repu...Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 07:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt's ‘Zionist' approach to land evictions condemned
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has condemned the government's heavy-handed approach to dealing with illegal land occupations, likening it to past controversial actions and expressing con...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disciplines land invaders
The ruling party Zanu-PF has implemented disciplinary measures against the Mutare DCC Chairman and certain party members implicated in the unlawful sale and allocation of land.In a statement f...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 09:01hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF draws line in the sand
Zanu-PF has demanded that all illegal land occupations, sale or parcelling out of land and stands, as well as illegal developments, stop forthwith, as the ruling party only supports planned settlement...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 08:51hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:34hrs | 38 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe Era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 12:32hrs | 5 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Mnangagwa's govt to go after 15 land barons
NATIONAL Housing minister Daniel Garwe says the government is working on modalities to rein in at least 15 land barons believed to be in possession of 80 percent of the country's residential space....Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 09:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves to stop farm seizures
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has moved to stop new farm invasions, calling them acts of indiscipline which will not be tolerated by his government.Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, s...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 14:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni: A goat skinner in the place of a chief
Back in my village, when elders with cotton tuft hair sit to discuss matters of State and governance, among intermittent sips and sniffs, there are those whose contribution is known to stupidly go aga...Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:44hrs | 3 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Zanu-PF warns traditional leaders
Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs Ezra Chadzamira has warned traditional leaders against illegally parcelling out land, saying Government would not condone such lawlessness. He said Go...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Origins of the Zimbabwe crisis
This article was first published by hsf.org.za.Zimbabwe is experiencing a cumulative breakdown. Living standards, life expectancy and production have plummeted while political oppression h...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 09:11hrs | 3 | by Teddy Brett and Simon Winter
Con-Court bench members' profiles
Chief Justice Luke MalabaLuke Malaba was born in 1951.He received his law degree from the University of Warwick in 1974, and another law degree from the University of Zimbabwe in 1982....Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 13:07hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance 'bullet train' political campaign
The MDC Alliance's "bullet train" political campaign has clearly been quick off the mark (no pun intended).Perhaps too quick off the mark to the extent that they had raked up in excess of 40 r...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:21hrs | 2 | by Staff writer
War vets ordered off Tongaat fields
Government has ordered a group of suspected war veterans, who illegally occupied sugarcane plots owned by Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe, to immediately vacate the land or face the full wrath of the law. The...Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T tells its supporters to apply for land at government offices
Zimbabwe land reform must be rationalised One of the founding principles of the MDC clearly and unequivocally advocates for holistic and sustainable land redistribution in order to guarantee f...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 08:57hrs | 2 | by Obert Gutu
The truth about the two separate states unearthed
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Mr Mqondisi Moyo has today revealed the truth about Zimbabwe's two separate states. According to Moyo, Zimbabwe houses two nations that were illegally joined...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 14:07hrs | | by Clever Mpande
Biggest land occupation in South Africa's Cape Town is taking place
Tensions simmered in Khayelitsha on Monday as residents flouted interdicts preventing occupation of open land at a number of sites.The land occupations in Khayelitsha this past week are among ...Published: 24 May 2017 at 09:02hrs | 2 | by Ashleigh Furlong, GroundUp
The land question in Africa
BEFORE Africa was carved up and occupied by the European colonial powers, land in Africa was largely under populated and human population growth was slow and could quite easily be accommodated....Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Eddie Cross
Afrikaners threaten SA govt with war for land
The group also said lack of action against farm murders would be seen 'as an act of hostility against the white population'.The fight for the land ownership is reaching heated levels appar...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 15:46hrs | 3 | by Citizen
Fresh land invasions rock Harare
MASSIVE social upheaval looms in Harare after the Harare City Council (HCC) resolved to evict thousands of illegal settlers who have invaded large swathes of open spaces in the capital city....Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive Gukurahundi demonstrations
This is to announce that Siphesakhe Youth Organisation will be embarking on a public demonstration against Zimbabwean Government's Gukurahundi Genocide against the people of Matebeleland and Midlands ...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 20:13hrs | 2 | by Yanga Mhluzi (Member of Siphesakhe Youth Group)
Its not govt policy for people to resettle themselves - Zanu-PF Minister
The deputy minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement Berita Chikwama has said it is not government policy that people should invade farms.This was after senator Chief Musarurwa asked if it was ...Published: 13 Jun 2016 at 07:01hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
'Zimbabwe fast-track land reform over,' says Mugabe's ally
The fast-track land reform programme has run its course with the exhaustion of new farms for acquisition amid indications that further allocations can only be done after the envisaged land audit revea...Published: 08 Feb 2016 at 05:38hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
WATCH: Chenjerai Hunzvi
The former leader of the Zimbabwean war veterans said his movement plans to reclaim more than 800 white-owned farms this week.It came just one day after Dr. Chenjerai Hunzvi escaped an immedia...Published: 15 Nov 2015 at 16:15hrs | 2 | by youtube
Matabele Resistance - Villagers want MPs and Provincial Affairs Minister fired
In a shock move that is expected to trigger mass actions across Matabeleland Region, Villagers from Matobo North and South Constituencies and neighbouring Gwanda North Constituency have called o...Published: 09 Mar 2015 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
The Chinotimba Dilemma
When Zimrights, one of Zimbabwe's oldest civil society organisations, awarded a human rights defender award to Zanu-PF MP and war-veteran, Joseph Chinotimba towards Christmas, I thought the organisati...Published: 23 Jan 2015 at 11:27hrs | | by Alex T. Magaisa
Land invasion hits Namibia
OVER a thousand people illegally occupied land in Namibia's coastal town of Swakopmund on Wednesday, saying they had grown tired of waiting for the government to give them plots to live on....Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 10:24hrs | | by AFP
State media smear campaign on Mujuru continues after allegations of violence
According to State media, Harare South legislator Shadreck Mashayamombe allegedly hired Zanu-PF youths who are accused of attacking their political opponents at Southlea Park in the constituency, tear...Published: 05 Nov 2014 at 22:46hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Chombo calls for another Operation Murambatswina
The Minister of Local Government, Rural and Urban Development Ignatius Chombo has told people illegally occupying any piece of land to demolish their buildings and leave forthwith or government wi...Published: 01 Nov 2013 at 04:05hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Govt castigates Illegal land occupations
Government has urged Zimbabweans to desist from illegally occupying land which they have not been allocated by authorities as this creates disorder.Following reports of people illegally occupy...Published: 14 Sep 2013 at 15:05hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe-phobia fog clouds land reform success
ELECTIONS will be held in Zimbabwe later this year, leading with grim predictability to another bout of Mugabe-phobia in the British media.The trigger for the presidential and parliamentary po...Published: 24 Jan 2013 at 05:49hrs | | by Jonathan Steele I guardian.co.uk
The Politics of Land and Housing
I have been asked to speak on the politic of land and housing in our cities. I only get these invitations because of the strength of the movement of which I am part and so, on behalf of Abahlali ...Published: 13 Apr 2011 at 08:06hrs | | by Sbu Zikode
Zimbabweans should stop fighting for farms: Murerwa
The Acting Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Herbert Murerwa on Wednesday urged Zimbabweans to observe the rule of law and stop fighting for farms.Murerwa said th...Published: 16 Mar 2011 at 18:42hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
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