Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe bans SA poultry imports http://www.afriquejet.com Harare, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe Friday banned chicken imports from a major South African supplier after press reports said the company was exporting expired products which posed a health risk. The media last week accused Supreme Poultry, the biggest supplier of chicken to Zimbabwe, of re-packaging expired meat for export. …
Political interference a major problem to Zim farming http://www.zimeye.org/?p=25524 By Gerald Chateta Published: January 1, 2011 Harare – The Commercial Farmers Union says because of political interference and disturbances which characterised the commercial farming sector in 2010 Zimbabwe will once again this season rely on food aid. “The rains have been fine, even the small …
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Zimbabwe Central ID and Passport production centre gutted by mysterious fire http://www.thezimbabwemail.com 31 December, 2010 09:18:00 Radio VOP The co-Minister of Home Affairs Theresa Makone could not confirm to the fire outbreak. Harare, – The Identification production centre for passports based at KG Six Army Headquarters in Harare was on Friday …
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Agriculture fragile despite recovery signs http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:48 ONCE regarded as the breadbasket of southern Africa during the first two decades after Independence in 1980, Zimbabwe has for the past 10 years become a perennial importer of food and relying more on food handouts from aid agencies after “farm invasions” which started …
Zanu PF bigwigs face conservancy eviction http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:16 ZANU PF bigwigs face eviction from conservancies they occupy in Matabeleland North to pave way for mining of coal deposits discovered on their properties. Government sources said Bulawayo provincial governor Cain Mathema would have to move from his Gwayi Ranch while his Matabeleland …
Price of fuel set to rise http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:27 GOVERNMENT, in agreement with petroleum suppliers, is planning to increase the price of fuel to a minimum of US$1,40 a litre with effect from tomorrow after Finance minister Tendai Biti introduced a four-cent fuel levy on importers using road transport. The sharp rise …
Murerwa threatens to repossess farms http://www.newzimbabwe.com/ 29/12/2010 00:00:00 by Staff Reporter THE government will repossess farms that continue to lie idle while farmers failing to make improvements on their properties also risk lose their land, a cabinet minister has warned. Agriculture Minister Herbert Murerwa said some beneficiaries of the government’s controversial land reforms were undermining …
Heavy rain, flood warnings http://www.irinnews.org Photo: David Gough/IRIN Flooding of the Zambezi disrupts lives in most of the region HARARE/JOHANNESBURG, 30 December 2010 (IRIN) – The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) staffed jointly by officials from Zambia and Zimbabwe, says one of the two major dams on the river between the two countries will …
Eric Bloch: Discriminatory, unfair land ownership http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:37 YET again the hierarchy of Zanu PF has expounded on that party’s entrenched belief that Zimbabwean land is wholly and exclusively for the country’s indigenous population. That racialistic, discriminatory contention is not limited only to land ownership, but also to land usage. This …
Magistrate’s arrest sparks fury http://www.newzimbabwe.com/ 23/12/2010 00:00:00 by Staff Reporter MAGISTRATES accused police of “bully tactics” on Thursday following the arrest of Manicaland’s Provincial Magistrate Billiard Musakwa and a prosecutor on corruption charges. The Magistrates’ Association of Zimbabwe called on Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri to step in following last weekend’s arrests in Mutare. Musakwa discharged …