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Bigwigs in fresh land grabs Financial Gazette 31/5/2018 Tabitha Mutenga Staff Reporter ZIMBABWE last year experienced renewed land expropriations, with an increase in cases of powerful politicians and their cronies evicting beneficiaries of the land reform programme, especially those on prime agricultural land and wildlife sanctuaries. A few remaining white farmers were also targets …
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Govt must move with speed to repossess land from multiple farm owners President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday that Government is repossessing land from multiple farm owners in order to redistribute it to other landless Zimbabweans who include the youths. Cde Mnangagwa who was addressing youths at a Zanu-PF youth convention in …
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Ministry warns against land fraudsters Deputy Minister Davis Marapira Pamela Shumba, Senior ReporterTHE Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement has warned the public to be wary of fraudsters that are masquerading as Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri (Rtd) and demanding money from unsuspecting land seekers. Deputy Minister Davis Marapira yesterday said the ministry had …
Govt starts repossessing land from multiple farm owners President Mnangagwa Munyaradzi Musiiwa, Midlands CorrespondentGOVERNMENT has started repossessing land from beneficiaries of land reform programme who have multiple farms and those whose properties exceed the recommended sizes to enable more people, particularly youths to benefit, President Mnangagwa said yesterday. Addressing youths and party supporters during …
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Women attack traditional leaders over land distribution newsday RURAL women have accused traditional leaders of abusing their authority to sideline them in the distribution of land. BY KUDZAI MUCHENJEKWA This came out during a women land tenure policy dialogue organised by the Zimbabwe Land Agrarian Network (ZiLAN) in Harare on Monday, where participants bemoaned the …
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Zanu PF activists invade Mutinhiri son’s plot newsday SUSPECTED Zanu PF activists in Marondera have reportedly invaded a farm owned by National Patriotic Front (NPF) interim leader, Ambrose Mutinhiri’s son, Tafara, in protest over his father’s decision to join opposition politics. BY JAIROS SAUNYAMA Tafara confirmed the incident yesterday, saying the ruling party supporters invaded …
Zimplats to lease claims to ranchers The Herald Blessings Chidakwa in KadomaZimplats has made a request to Mhondoro-Ngezi Rural District Council for permission to lease some of its mining claims for commercial ranching. According to the request, the local authority is set to benefit through collection of lease rentals. Mhondoro-Ngezi RDC has since given …
Police quell fracas at Hippo Valley Estates The Herald Tawanda Mangoma in ChiredziOver 200 Tongaat Huletts Zimbabwe employees here were last week involved in fierce clashes with scores of resettled sugarcane farmers who wanted to take over their houses at Hippo Valley Estates. Riot police had to intervene to quell the situation and restore …
Lifeline for white farmers The Herald Obert Chifamba Manicaland Bureau ChiefWHITE commercial farmers who did not vacate their farms during the fast-track land reform should regularise their stay on those farms to enable them to access 99-year leases. Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Land Commission Ms Tendai Bare said this during a media briefing in …
Beware of bogus land dealers: Minister Shiri The Herald Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture ReporterLands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister Air Chief Marshal (Retired) Perrance Shiri has distanced himself from bogus land dealers who are masquerading as officials in his ministry or his relatives and conning desperate land seekers. Minister Shiri acknowledged that a lot …