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‘Resettled farmers will keep their land’ Source: ‘Resettled farmers will keep their land’ | Daily News HARARE – MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has, in the event of winning this month’s crunch national elections, ruled out his government repossessing land from thousands of people who benefitted from the 2000 chaotic agrarian reforms. Addressing party supporters in …
Give us land, agric graduates lobby Govt 0 June 29, 2018 2:04 AM Source: Give us land, agric graduates lobby Govt | The Herald June 28, 2018 Manicaland BureauGRADUATES from agricultural colleges have come together to form a coalition that seeks to tap into their technical expertise and help develop Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector. Aptly named the Coalition of …
Land ownership is the easy part Farmers Weekly SA 1 June 2018 Since its December 2017 conference and the EFF’s motion on land expropriation being adopted in Parliament in February, the ANC has been struggling to come to grips with its own contradictory stance on implementing land reform without compensation, and how to achieve rapid …
The staggering cost of land reform in Zimbabwe Farmers Weekly 1 June 2018 Global Insight By Dr Tinashe Kapuya Dr Tinashe Kapuya is an agricultural economist. Email him at tinashekapuya@gmail.com As the debate on expropriation without compensation rages on, there are interesting facts from Zimbabwe that continue to point to the need for a …
Govt promises to stop land evictions Tabitha Mutenga Staff Reporter GOVERNMENT will be stopping all land evictions, especially the appropriation of indigenously owned farms and those farms protected under Bilateral Investment Protection and Promotion Agreements (BIPPAs). Government is currency saddled with a $32 million debt owed to 13.Dutch farmers led by Bernardus Henricus Funnekotter, …
Zim 2018 election: What manifestos say about land The Herald Ian Scoones CorrespondentTHE Zimbabwe election has been set for July 30, and some of the manifestos have been published. What do they say about land and agriculture? There are many parties standing and plenty of independents, but only two parties count: Zanu-PF, led by …
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Zimplats cedes land to govt Financial Gazette 8/6/2018 Ndakaziva Majaka Deputy Markets Editor ZIMBABWE’S largest platinum producer, Zim-plats, has agreed to release 23 903 hectares of land to government within its mining lease after a two-year wrangle, it has emerged. In an update released yesterday, Zimplats, parent company, Implats, said the move was in “support …
Army clears forest of illegal panners Bernard Chiketo • 7 June 2018 2:51PM • 0 comments MUTARE – Soldiers have cleared illegal artisanal gold miners who had maintained a two-decade stranglehold on government-owned Allied Timbers’ Tarka Forest Reserve – a commercial pine tree plantation in Chimanimani – in a clean sweep that suggests a previous lack …
Govt, Zimplats resolve land row Golden Sibanda, Harare BureauZIMBABWE’s biggest platinum mining firm, Zimplats Holdings Limited, has agreed to release to Government 27 948 hectares of its unexploited platinum rich land in the Ngezi area, Mhondoro, resolving an acrimonious mining land wrangle stretching back to 2013. The company immediately stressed the fact that the amicable …
Time Bank fights land grab The Herald Golden Sibanda Senior Business ReporterTIME Bank shareholders have filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking suspension of earlier court judgments in a case which went in favour of a party claiming to have been allocated one of their (residential) properties under Government’s land reform …