Food Decurity is for the Greater Good

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 …

Zim Faces Maize Defecit again Despite Govt Claims

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 …

Shaw case SC32/05

  REPORTABLE (29)    Judgement No SC 32/05 Civil Appeal No 6/05      S C SHAW (PRIVATE) LIMITED  v  THE MINISTER OF LANDS AND AGRICULTURAL RESETTLEMENT     SUPREME COURT OF ZIMBABWE CHIDYAUSIKU CJ, SANDURA JA, ZIYAMBI JA & GWAUNZA JA HARARE MARCH 10 & SEPTEMBER 12, 2005 A. P. de Bourbon S.C., with him J. B. Colegrave, for …

A Personal Response to Zimbabwe Critics

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 …

Vengeful Eviction of Black Nationalist Farmers

  Mugabe’s Vengeful Eviction of Black Nationalist Farmers  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 onto the levers of power.  Single-handedly, Mugabe has created disunity, tribal …

Land Audit 2010 – What Happened to the US$ 2.5 billion handed to “New Farmers”

Land Audit 2010 – What Happened to the US$ 2.5 billion handed to “New Farmers”? “ In 30 seconds, Haiti lost 60 percent of its GDP (gross domestic product),” and now requires an estimated US$3 billion dollars to rebuild its economy over the next ten years due to a natural disaster. Zimbabwe spent close to US$3 …

Zim white farmers to appeal to supreme court

Zim white farmers to appeal to supreme court  http://www.zimonline.co.za/  by Own Correspondent Monday 01 February 2010 HARARE –  Zimbabwe’s beleaguered white farmers will ask the Supreme Court to order registration of a SADC Tribunal ruling outlawing government land reforms after a High Court judge conceded that the regional court’s ruling was binding but declined to register …