Category: Newspaper Clippings

South African courts come to the aid of white Zimbabwean farmers  http://business.timesonline.co.uk March 4, 2010 Jan Raath Harare Zimbabwe’s dispossessed white farmers will at last be able to put the heat on President Mugabe. Four former farmers have been given the right to seize Zimbabwean government property in South Africa in pursuit of their compensation …

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Army officials lease land to whites  http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/ Written by Staff ReporterMonday, 01 March 2010 07:15TENGWE – Top army officials who grabbed land during the infamous land reform programme are reported to be leasing their farms to former white commercial farmers after failing to utilise them.An investigation by this paper indicated that most farms in Tengwe, …

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State agriculture utility to let farms  http://www.zimonline.co.za/ by Tafadzwa Mutasa Wednesday 03 March 2010 HARARE – Zimbabwe’s state-owned Agriculture and Rural Development Authority (ARDA) is on a drive to lease out to private companies all its estates that lie derelict after years of mismanagement as it tries to improve the country’s agriculture production. Condemned as …

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SA moves to ensure productivity on farms  http://www.zimonline.co.za/ by Own Correspondent Wednesday 03 March 2010 JOHANNESBURG – South Africa will implement the “use it or lose it” principle to ensure resettled farmers maintain production at redistributed farmland, a government official said on Tuesday. “You know, use it or lose it will work now, with the …

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Zimbabwe to review local ownership law: minister (AFP) – 7 hours ago HARARE – Zimbabwe’s cabinet will review new local ownership rules that have sparked concern among business leaders, the industry minister said Wednesday, saying the law had been published “prematurely”. Zimbabwe published a law three weeks ago requiring that major foreign firms divest 51 …

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Indigenisation law to dominate Council of Ministers meeting Thursday http://www.swradioafrica.com By Tichaona Sibanda3 March 2010 The dispute between ZANU PF and the MDC over the recently gazetted indigenisation regulations is set to dominate Thursday’s Council of Ministers, which is to be chaired by the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe met on Monday during …

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Zimbabwe needs foreign capital – Mandiwanza  http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Written by JOHN CHIMUNHUTuesday, 02 March 2010 14:37 HARARE – The Zimbabwean economy needs foreign capital if it is to emerge from the doldrums Robert Mugabe has driven it into through years of mismanagement and corruption, a senior executive linked to the President has said. Anthony Mandiwanza, a …

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Union leader flees to South Africa http://www.zimonline.co.za/ by Caroline Mvundura Tuesday 02 March 2010 HARARE – Top Zimbabwean union leader Gertrude Hambira has fled to neighbouring South Africa, as police raided her Harare offices on Monday wanting to arrest her for releasing a video showing how President Robert Mugabe’s supporters committed rights abuses and other …

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Drought destroys 200,000ha of maize in Zimbabwe http://www.postzambia.com By Kingsley Kaswende in Harare, ZimbabweMon 01 Mar. 2010, 23:10 CAT MORE than 200,000 hectares of the current maize crop in Zimbabwe has been written off after being scorched during the dry spell that affected the country during December and January. A livestock and crop assessment that …

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Zimbabwean man jailed for US tax fraud http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/?p=27630 March 1, 2010 By Our Correspondent SHERMAN, Texas – A Zimbabwean man who conspired with four compatriots to commit tax fraud amounting to millions of dollars in the United States was on Friday jailed for five years. The convicted man, Simbarashe Soko, who conspired with, among others, …

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