Absentee farmers to lose farms, warns Govt

Absentee farmers to lose farms, warns Govt   Elita Chikwati Senior ReporterGovernment has warned absentee farmers that they risk losing their farms after an assessment on farms is completed in two months. Speaking at the inaugural tobacco conference that was organised by Cardinal Chartered Accountants, Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Davis Marapira …

Zim white farmers call Britain to order – the true interview

Zim white farmers call Britain to order  3 March 11, 2018 4:03 PM Source: Zim white farmers call Britain to order – Sunday News March 11, 2018 Kuda Bwititi, Harare Bureau THE Commercial Farmers’ Union, largely composed of white ex-farmers, says the British government should play a leading role in compensating them for losses incurred as a result …

SA’s land debate clouded by misrepresentation, lack of data

SA’s land debate clouded by misrepresentation, lack of data   Ben Cousins CorrespondentSouth Africa’s parliament has passed a resolution to amend the constitution and allow expropriation without compensation. The decision has generated a storm of gigantic proportions as political parties, citizens, white farmers and commentators anticipate either the moment of salvation (‘real land reform at …

Zim white farmers call Britain to order

Zim white farmers call Britain to order  3 March 11, 2018 4:03 PM   Source: Zim white farmers call Britain to order – Sunday News March 11, 2018 Air Marshal Perrance Shiri Kuda Bwititi, Harare BureauTHE Commercial Farmers’ Union, largely composed of white ex-farmers, says the British government should play a leading role in compensating them for losses …

Panic as govt ‘evicts’ resettled farmers

Panic as govt ‘evicts’ resettled farmers March 4, 2018 in Local, News President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has started withdrawing offer letters for a number of commercial farms, especially those that had horticulture and dairy projects before they were parcelled out to black farmers under the controversial land reform programme, it has been revealed. By Everson Mushava The farms …

Land reform domino hits South Africa, inevitably

Land reform domino hits South Africa, inevitably   RADARWHEN former President Robert Mugabe proclaimed a policy of national reconciliation at Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, the white world loved it. It is recorded that whites in this country, if not their rebel leader himself Ian Smith, remarked that if they had known that all black people …

Ramaphosa vows to resolve SA land issue ‘once and for all’

Ramaphosa vows to resolve SA land issue ‘once and for all’ – March 2, 2018   CAPE TOWN — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday said he wants talks on the thorny topic of land expropriation to avoid panic, but aims to resolve the issue of racial disparities in property ownership “once and for all”.   Reuters …