Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
RBZ thwarts Zanu PF looters of farm tools http://www.thestandard.co.zw Saturday, 02 October 2010 18:25 BULAWAYO – The Reserve Bank has stopped Zanu PF officials in Matabeleland from grabbing and distributing amongst themselves its farm mechanisation equipment that has been lying idle for the past three years in Bulawayo. Zanu PF officials in the southern region …
Land reform has failed in South Africa http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:45 LAND reform in South Africa is still having major problems. No positive outcome seems possible in the foreseeable future. Government is unhappy about the situation, new (mostly black) farmers are dissatisfied, and commercial farmers try to continue “in a state of constant …
No shortage of sugar this year –– Mtsambiwa http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:30 ZIMBABWE’s sugar production will be enough to meet the country’s needs until March next year, Hippo Valley Estate Ltd Chief Executive Officer Sydney Mtsambiwa says.Speaking to businessdigest after the company’s AGM on Wednesday, Mtsambiwa said there would be no shortage of …
SA protests disruption of citizens’ farming operations http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:34 THE South African ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mlungisi Makalima, has written to government seeking its “immediate” intervention to stop the takeover of two farms in Chegutu and Marondera owned by his country’s citizens. The farms, according to Makalima, were protected under a Bilateral …
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‘Army in renewed terror campaign’ http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:06 CONSTITUTIONAL Parliamentary Committee co-chairman Douglas Mwonzora has accused the military and other state security agents of terrorising villagers during the outreach programme of the constitution-making process, saying a climate of fear was enveloping outlying districts of the country. Mwonzora said this week as a …
Hungry Mwenezi villagers survive on baboons http://www.dailynews.co.zw By Godfrey MtimbaFriday, 01 October 2010 16:07 MWENEZI – The baboon population is under threat of being wiped out in Mwenezi as desperate villagers have resorted to eating the human-like wild animal to avert hunger and starvation, game ranchers in the area have revealed. Hunger and starvation continue …
A Fourth Chimurenga, for gold http://www.irinnews.org Photo: David Morton/IRIN Sometimes mining pays better than farming Kadoma, 1 October 2010 (IRIN) – A new wave of farm invasions in Zimbabwe has been dubbed the Fourth Chimurenga (liberation struggle) – the fast track-land reform programme launched by President Robert Mugabe in 2000 was the third …
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Farmers Sue Zimbabwe Government for Racism http://www.voanews.com/ Peta Thornycroft | Johannesburg 30 September 2010 Photo: AP Farm workers clean up at Les de Jager’s “Two Trees” farm in the Lions Den area, 150 kilometers north of Harare, Zimbabwe after looters ransacked the house, stripping the home and causing damage to farm equipment. The …