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Magistrate’s conflict of interest exposed in land case http://www.swradioafrica.com By Violet Gonda 1 February 2010 Samuel Zuze, the Chipinge magistrate, who found four farmers guilty of refusing to leave their properties last Tuesday, has presided over a case in which he has a vested interest. He is the alleged beneficiary of a farm owned by …
Zimbabwe’s farmers warn of huge grain deficit http://af.reuters.com Mon Feb 1, 2010 10:46am GMT * Country would need to import over 1 million T of maize * Union says Zimbabwe ‘lucky’ if yield exceeds 500,000 T * Extended dry spell damages crops By Nelson Banya HARARE, Feb 1 (Reuters) – Zimbabwe may have to import …
Eviction for ‘trespassing’ farmers From The Sunday Independent (SA), 31 January Peta Thornycroft Harare – If the war vets, don’t get you, the magistrates will. And if they fail, the army will. And when all human agents fail, the drought is waiting. And don’t in any way count on your old friends the MDC to …
Sundayview: Land: A key Objective of the Liberation Struggle http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Saturday, 30 January 2010 16:42 THE right to own land and the right to education were the two key objectives of the liberation struggle. Landless peasants, whose sons and daughters formed half of the freedom fighters, were fighting primarily for land. The land hunger was …
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EX PARTE URGENT CHAMBER APPLICATION IN THE HIGH COURT OF ZIMBABWE CASE NO HC 502/10HELD AT HARARE In the matter between: CHIRIGA ESTATES (PVT) LTD 1ST APPLICANT(Represented by Algernon Tracy Taffs) STILFONTEIN ESTATES (PVT) LTD 2nd APPLICANT(Represented by David Hercules Joubert) SILVERTON ESTATES (PVT) LTD 3RD APPLICANT AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ZIMBABWE N.O 1ST RESPONDENT THE …
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Woe to you Masvayamwando and Bhasikiti The Zimbabwean – 31 January 2010 Factionalism in the former ruling Zanu (PF) is not only threatening to “eat up” the party, as lamented by Robert Mugabe at its recent congress, but is also threatening to wipe out the resources of Mwenezi District Powerful politicians from the disintegrating party …
News release Immediate past President of the Commercial Farmers’ Union Mr Trevor Gifford and fellow Chipinge farmer Mr Dawie Joubert appeared in the Mutare Magistrate being charged with the following: Contempt of Court Obstruction of Court official Taking photographs in a public place When bail application was made the prosecutor proposed a USD 1000 deposit …
In Zimbabwe, Climate Change Brings Water Woes http://english.ohmynews.com Subsistence farmers struggle to reach water as more wells run dry Masimba Biriwasha Published 2010-01-27 17:37 (KST) At a public borehole in Zviyambe, a village in the backyard of Zimbabwe, approximately 250 kilometers away from Harare, the capital city, butterflies, goats, cattle and human beings mix and mingle in edenic …
SA under pressure to release report on Zim election violence http://www.swradioafrica.com By Alex Bell 27 January 2010 The South African government is set to come under renewed pressure to release a potentially explosive report on post election violence in Zimbabwe, which has been kept hidden from public scrutiny for well over a year. The South African History …
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High Court Hearing for Registration of SADC Tribunal Farms Judgment on 24 November 2009 SW Radio Africa Almost exactly a year after the SADC Tribunal made its landmark judgment in the Campbell case on 28 November 2008, the High Court of Zimbabwe finally set down a date for registering the Judgment in Zimbabwe. Mike Campbell* …
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