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Masvingo spares 10 white farmers April 26, 2016 Top Stories From George Maponga in MasvingoTHE Masvingo provincial leadership has recommended 10 white farmers to remain on their properties after resolving that their operations were of strategic economic importance to the province. The farmers are into hybrid cattle production, dairy farming and chicken rearing in Mwenezi, Masvingo and …
Gold panners rent farms in Zhombe 0 National Report April 21, 2016 By Own Correspondent A visit to Zhombe showed that the farmers are being paid either in gold or cash by the panners. Idah MhetuFARMERS in Zhombe district in the Midlands province have resorted to leasing portions of their farmland to illegal gold diggers following …
Bring closure to land reform — Mangoma April 20, 2016 Local News Elton Mangoma Herald ReporterRenewal Democrats of Zimbabwe leader Mr Elton Mangoma yesterday urged Government to float land compensation bonds redeemable over a long period to bring closure to the land question to improve productivity. Addressing journalists in the capital, Mr Mangoma conceded that the …
Farmers hail land reform programme April 19, 2016 Local News Harare BureauFarmers across the country are grateful to the government for addressing land imbalances through the land reform programme, as this has resulted in improved livelihoods and easier property acquisition. Most of the farmers said the main reason for the liberation struggle was the land issue and …
Mugabe warned over fresh farm invasions TENDAI KAMHUNGIRA AND FARAYI MACHAMIRE • 10 APRIL 2016 6:33PM • 0 COMMENTS HARARE – Opposition political parties have warned President Robert Mugabe against his typical populist, political rhetoric approach following his mooted fresh farm invasion exercise to satisfy war veterans’ demands amid a disastrous fast track land policy that turned …
RDCs, agric ministry on collision course April 4, 2016 Local News Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi BureauRural District Councils (RDCs) and the Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement are headed for a showdown, with local authorities accusing Government of failing to make meaningful disbursements to them from land rent collected from farmers. Late last year, the ministry took over the collection …
‘State needs time to compensate farmers’ April 4, 2016 Business Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa says the government does not have the capacity to pay for farm compensations at present but will acknowledge indebtedness over a period of time with the farmers that had their land taken from them during the Land Reform Programme. Minister Chinamasa told …
Penniless govt struggles to compensate white farmers April 1, 2016 in News HOPE for most white commercial farmers to ever get compensated by government for the farms grabbed under the chaotic fasttrack land reform programme is quickly fading amid indications the state is facing serious financial constraints after only paying for a measly 4% of the total …
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We can’t pay: Zimbabwe farmers resist compensating evicted white landowners Posted on March 22, 2016 by ZimSitRep_M — 2 Comments ↓ via We can’t pay: Zimbabwe farmers resist compensating evicted white landowners – The Zimbabwe Independent March 22, 2016 ZIMBABWE’S plan to win back international funding by paying compensation to white farmers forced off their land faces a major snag: the black farmers …
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‘Constitution will guide land compensation’ MABASA SASA 1 DAY AGO Mabasa SasaThere has been no policy shift by Government on the matter of compensation relating to land acquired under the Land Reform Programme, contrary to media reports last week, a Cabinet minister has said. There have been reports that Finance Minister had changed goalposts and …