Category: Newspaper Clippings

British MPs impressed with villagers’ productivityhttp://www.zicora.com Posted By Own Staff Monday, 08 February 2010 09:04 BRITISH Parliamentarians on Wednesday told Tsholotsho villagers that their government would continue supporting them financially as they were impressed with their agricultural skills. The  MPs toured  Tsholotsho to assess agricultural activities they are funding. Team leader, Nigel Evans said they …

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Judge tells SA to pay for Mugabe sinshttp://www.iol.co.za/     February 09 2010 at 06:49AM By Karen Breytenbach The South African government has been hauled over the coals by a Pretoria High Court judge for not protecting its citizens from Robert Mugabe’s land expropriations. The government was ordered to pay damages to a South African farmer …

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Commercial Farmers Union to appeal Supreme Court decisionhttp://www.zimeye.org/?p=13065 By Gerald Chateta Published: February 9, 2010 Harare  –  The Commercial Farmers Union says it is going back to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal and for the third time to challenge the refusal by the Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court to honour the SADC tribunal’s 2008 judgment …

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CITES boss’ planned conservancy visit angers Harare http://www.zimonline.co.za/  by Own Correspondent Friday 05 February 2010  HARARE – Zimbabwean officials are unhappy that CITES chief  Willem Wijnstekers will tour a top private game conservancy during his visit to Zimbabwe next week, apparently fearful he will end up learning too much about wanton poaching decimating the country’s wildlife, sources …

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Land: Zanu PF Tool in Suppressing Dissenthttp://www.thezimbabweindependent.com/ Thursday, 04 February 2010 18:36 ZANU PF is a creature of habit and Robert Mugabe has sharpened the one tool in his vast arsenal, effectively destroying persons who challenge his authority or support any opposition to his despotism and brutal hold on the levers of power.The fast-track land …

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Muckraker: Food Security is the Greater Goodhttp://www.thezimbabweindependent.com/ Thursday, 04 February 2010 18:58 UNDER the heading “ZDF to safeguard land reform”, the Herald last week carried a story in which Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, addressing students at the army Staff College, said the ZDF “as a matter of priority” will ensure the land reform programme is …

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Zim Faces Maize Deficit Again, Despite Govt Claimshttp://www.thezimbabweindependent.com/ Thursday, 04 February 2010 19:23 FARMERS’ organisations must be feeling vindicated after Agriculture ministry permanent secretary Ngoni Masoka last year turned a deaf ear to their warnings of a maize deficit. Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) vice-president Charles Taffs told government officials and delegates at an agriculture conference …

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A news flash just come in reports that Mr Crawford von Abo has just won his case in South Africa in a judgment which was handed down by Judge Prinsloo. The report says that the judge ordered the South African Government to sit around the table and work out the final amount and terms of …

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White farmers attack judge The Herald – 5 January 2010 HIGH COURT judge Justice Bharat Patel has come under attack from white commercial farmers for rejecting their application to register the SADC Tribunal ruling that sought to bar the State from acquiring land for resettlement purposes.  In an article carried by various online publications ex-commercial …

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A Personal Response to Zimbabwe Critics  http://www.modernghana.com/  By Rejoice Ngwenya, AfricanLiberty.org  Dear Concerned Zimbabwe Observer,  Many people who have expressed contrarian views on the wickedness of Mugabe, like yours, have only one slight problem – they won’t swap citizenship with me! We liberals in Zimbabwe [and there a miserly few of us] do accept that …

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