Zim pays former Dutch farmers $6,1m

Zim pays former Dutch farmers $6,1m Financial gazette 13 December 2018 Tabitha Mutenga Features Editor  PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has start­ed paying compensation lo 13 Dutch farmers who lost their Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPPA) protected farms during the land reform programme.  The farmers led by Bernardus Henricus Funnekotter look the Zimbabwe­an government …

Temporary importation for visitors’ vehicles

Temporary importation for visitors’ vehicles     The Chronicle 13/12/2018 The importation and regulation of such vehicles is provided for in terms of the Customs and Excise Act, Section 124 as read with the Customs and Excise (General) Regulations, SI 154 of 2001, as amended. Upon entry into Zimbabwe, a visitor bringing in a foreign …

Compensation of former white farm owners: An Immoral and Opportunistic Appeasement of Imperialism

Compensation of former white farm owners: An Immoral and Opportunistic Appeasement of Imperialism  – Zimbabwe Situation     In Prof. Mthuli Ncube, Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister of the “Austerity for Prosperity” 2019 Budget speech presented of 22 November 2018, President ED Mnangagwa has found a willing tool of the monopoly global capitalism. Through the Transitional Stabilisation …

Why govt, white farmers must meet

Why govt, white farmers must meet   Independent 7/12/2018 THE US$195 million award following the ruling by the World Bank Group-affiliated International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) given to the Bernhard von Pezold family, whose forestry and agro-food farm investments protected under the Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (Bippas) were forcibly acquired …

White farmers ‘getting poorer, sicker’ as they await govt compensation

White farmers ‘getting poorer, sicker’ as they await govt compensation    6/12/2018 WHITE farmers in Zimbabwe, who were evicted from their properties years ago, have been experiencing a drop in food production, and their hope to get government financial help to compensate any losses caused by land seizures is slowly dimming, according to some activists. …

Farmers scoff at damages budget

Farmers scoff at damages budget $10bn The estimated amount required to compensate about 4,500 white farmers in Zimbabwe who were evicted from their farms In Numbers Farmers scoff at damages budget Fraction of farms’ real worth set aside by cash-poor Zimbabwe By RAY NDLOVU ndlovur@sundaytimes.co.za Nine years after Ben Freeth was evicted from his citrus …