Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
‘SA land reform affecting sugar sector investment’ http://www.zimonline.co.za/ by Own Correspondent Tuesday 20 April 2010 JOHANNESBURG – Investment in South Africa’s sugar sector has gone down due to uncertainty over the country’s slow-paced land reform programme that seeks to transfer more than a third of farmland to the country’s black majority by 2014, an industry …
Mugabe offers Jamaican artist farm for ZANU-PF public relations http://www.zimdiaspora.com Monday, 19 April 2010 14:54 Staff Reporter in Harare Jamaican Reggae superstar and new Mugabe praise singer Sizzla Kalonji has been offered a farm in Mashonaland West province in exchange of doing Zanu PF public relations worldwide, Zimdiaspora can reveal. Sources at the ministry of …
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Mudenge Elbowed Out Of Farm http://news.radiovop.com 19/04/2010 15:25:00 Masvingo, April 19, 2010 – Zanu (PF) heavyweight and Higher and Tertiary Education Minister, Stan Mudenge, has succumbed to pressure from boisterous war veterans and abandoned his Chikore farm, south of Masvingo. The liberation fighters had been camping on the farm for some time, demanding that the …
Police refuse to investigate Chiyangwa & Chombo land deals http://www.swradioafrica.com/ By Lance Guma 19 April 2010 Police are still refusing to investigate allegations of corruption levelled against local government Minister Ignatius Chombo and businessman Philip Chiyangwa, in a major scandal that saw them illegally acquire council land. A report compiled by a committee of Harare …
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Zimbabwe’s new farmers defend their gains http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:59 UK Under President Robert Mugabe’s land reform programme, some 4,000 white farmers have been driven away and their land given to black farmers. The BBC’s Dan Isaacs talks to Zimbabwe’s new farming class. Endy Mhlanga, a war veteran of Zimbabwe’s war of …
Chombo Employing Tactics To Evade Land Grab Allegations http://news.radiovop.com 13/04/2010 16:10:00 Harare, April 13, 2010 – The Minister of Local Government and Urban Development, Ignatius Chombo, has gone ahead with counter investigations on the Harare city councillors who exposed him for land fraud as the battle for control of town house between Zanu (PF) and …
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Harare council adopts explosive land-grab reporthttp://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Saturday, 03 April 2010 20:09 A special Harare City Council meeting last week adopted a report exposing alleged illicit land deals involving flamboyant businessman, Phillip Chiyangwa and Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo. The report which covers the period between October 2004 and December 2009 shows that irregular acquisitions, mainly …
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Zim Journalist Summoned Over Chombo/Chiyangwa Land Stories http://news.radiovop.com 30/03/2010 06:55:00 Harare, March 30, 2010 – Zimbabwean police have summoned a senior freelance journalist Stanley Gama over a story published Sunday exposing massive irregularities and corruption in the acquisition of land by Local Government and Urban Development Minister Ignatius Chombo and Phillip Chiyangwa, President Robert Mugabe’s …
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Plan to seize Chiyangwa farms http://www.newzimbabwe.com/ 25/03/2010 00:00:00 THE government has announced plans to seize three farms owned by businessman Phillip Chiyangwa. Lands and Resettlement Minister Herbert Murerwa, in a government gazette, said Chiyangwa can claim compensation for the annexed land. The three properties measuring a total of 1386 hectares, located on the outskirts of …
2010 03 25 – “UK Made No Deal To Fund Zimbabwe Land Reform” http://changezimbabwe.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2781&Itemid=2… Written by Makusha Mugabe Thursday, 25 March 2010 The British Parliament’s Africa All-party Group’s latest report, “Land in Zimbabwe: Past Mistakes, Future Prospects” claims that Britain never made nor betrayed any promises on land reform made at Lancaster House as claimed …