Category: Land Issues (archives)

Command Agriculture: Land reform programme meets its Waterloo? By ZimSitRep_M | March 15, 2017 1 Comment ALREADY, the chickens from the Command Agriculture experiment are being counted before the eggs are hatched. Source: Command Agriculture: Land reform programme meets its Waterloo? – NewsDay ZimbabweMarch 15, 2017 guest column: Tapiwa Nyandoro Championed as the best thing since sliced bread, the land …

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EXCLUSIVE: Mugabe gives more land to ex-freedom fighters ahead of 2018 vote 2017-03-14 08:30  Njabulo Ncube, News24 Harare – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is promising to give more land to the country’s former freedom fighters, telling those who have not yet benefitted from his land programme to “indicate” which farms they prefer, ahead of next …

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EDITORIAL COMMENT: Farm sizes: To each according to capacity March 14, 2017 Features, Opinion & Analysis The cutting of farm sizes being proposed by Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa is a noble idea, as it will also be a de facto land audit. It is undeniable that there are some who “bit off more than what they …

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Goverment to cut farm sizes March 13, 2017 Headlines, Top Stories Minister Chinamasa Tendai Mugabe Senior ReporterGovernment plans to soon reduce huge farms to reasonably small pieces of land to meet demand from more land-hungry Zimbabweans before bringing closure to the land redistribution chapter, a Cabinet minister has revealed. Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa said Government …

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War vets cry foul as govt repossesses idle land By ZimSitRep_M | March 9, 2017 2 Comments Source: War vets cry foul as govt repossesses idle land – DailyNews Live Farayi Machamire      9 March 2017 HARARE – The War Veterans’ ministry has bemoaned the repossession of idleland parcelled out to the ex-freedom fighters under the violent landreform programme. …

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‘No to corrupt land allocation’  OPINION & ANALYSIS CONTRIBUTOR 1 DAY AGO Double land allocations are a problem which the Lands and Rural Resettlement Ministry is seized with. The ministry does not have a computerised system to capture the names of land reform beneficiaries. Therefore, we are working diligently to come up with an up-to-date …

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Chinamasa says government blundered in allowing invasion of timber plantations National Report February 21, 2017By Own Correspondent Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa FINANCE Minister Patrick Chinamasa says government made a mistake in allowing landless blacks to invade timber plantations in the east of the country at the height of the controversial land reform exercise 17 years ago. …

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Limpopo community wins millions in land claim 2017-02-15 12:50 Chester Makana, News24 Correspondent Farm land. (Duncan Alfreds, News24) Polokwane – A Limpopo community dispossessed of its land four decades ago will this week receive R35.3m as compensation for damages it suffered during forced evictions. The office of the regional land claims commissioner on Wednesday said …

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Resolve dispute with Swiss investors: Envoy By ZimSitRep_M | February 10, 2017 0 Comment Zimbabwe has to resolve its dispute with Swiss farmers, who lost their land under the fast-track land reform exercise, as well as undertaking reforms to create an attractive investment climate, an envoy has said. Source: Resolve dispute with Swiss investors: Envoy – NewsDay Zimbabwe February 10, 2017 …

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Zim should swallow pride, compensate land grab victims By ZimSitRep_M | February 12, 2017 2 Comments When the government embarked on an unstructured, haphazard and violent land reform programme, it was conveniently explained as fixing past wrongs and giving land to the people. Source: Zim should swallow pride, compensate land grab victims – NewsDay Zimbabwe February 11, 2017 Comment: NewsDay Editor …

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