Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
4th Floor, Sanders Hse, Cnr 1st St/ J.Moyo, HarareTel: +2634734141, 0912 588 684, 0912 263 557gertrudehambira@hotmail.com, giftmutisamas@yahoo.com GAPWUZ Statement 21 January 2010 The General Agriculture and Plantation Workers’ Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ) urgently calls for a stop to the continued farm disturbances, which have resulted in a serious farm labour crisis …
PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Commercial Farmers’ Union of Zimbabwe ISSUED BY: CFU President Deon Theron 21 January 2010 Zimbabwe: New wave of violent farm evictions The Commercial Farmers’ Union (CFU) deplores the fact that Zimbabwe’s Government of National Unity (GNU) has failed to stop a few extremists from openly threatening, physically attacking and illegally evicting …
Murderers and torturers appointed to Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Outreach Programme Posted by ZDN on January 15, 2010 The Inclusive Government in Zimbabwe has started its Constitutional Consultative Programme (CCP), as outlined in the terms of the GPA. No doubt, this fact was proudly presented at the Maputo meeting of the SADC Troika on Security, which met yesterday …
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Reforms body postpones consultations http://www.zimonline.co.za by Sebastian Nyamhangambiri Monday 18 January 2010 HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitutional committee has postponed public consultations on the proposed new constitution to allow an audit of members to ensure that only accredited members will be deployed to record the views of citizens on the new charter, a top official told ZimOnline …
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Zim faces hunger as crops wilt http://www.zimonline.co.za by Own Correspondent Monday 18 January 2010 HARARE -The Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWSNET) says Zimbabwe is staring hunger this year, warning that crops in the southern half of the country are already wilting due to moisture stress. It said below-average precipitation and high temperatures experienced during the …
Invaded Rusape farming family in crisishttp://www.swradioafrica.com By Alex Bell18 January 2010 Concerns have been raised about the welfare of a Rusape commercial farming family, barricaded inside their home by land invaders who have also cut off the farm’s electricity and water supplies. Koos Smit and his family have faced a worsening crisis on their De …
Govt abandons cloud seedinghttp://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Written by Natasha HoveMonday, 18 January 2010 12:37BULAWAYO – Plans by the government to conduct a cloud seeding exercise to induce rain have been shelved owing to lack of finances.Sources in the Meteorological Services Department told The Zimbabwean that the government had failed to begin the process owing to lack of …
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DAIRY FARMERS Dear Member, Stakeholder and Supplier Compliments of the Season to everyone. I hope that you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year and that you are ready to face 2010 with all the challenges …
MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Commercial Farmers’ Union of Zimbabwe 5 January 2010 Zim farm sieges continue, military intervention to speed up evictions? Another Zimbabwean farmer, Rudolf (Dolf) du Toit (69), came under siege over the weekend in the Rusape district east of Harare. Du Toit, who has a chronic heart …
All denied security of tenure over landJanuary 5, 2010Jupiter PunungweIN reply to my recent posting on the land issue, one reader stated that “The land issue has been politicized. It’s Mugabe who directs his courts on what to do and say and hence my concern at the independence of the Zimbabwean judiciary.” It seems this …