Cry the Beloved Recovery – A Closer Look at the Reality Behind Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Numbers

Cry the Beloved Recovery – A Closer Look at the Reality Behind Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Numbers After a decade of media criticism Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Program became the subject of positivist articles from 2011 onwards, almost all of them focussed on how Zimbabwe’s new farmers are driving an extraordinary recovery of the tobacco sector. …

Land reform made poverty worse: study

Land reform made poverty worse: study http://www.thezimbabwean.co/ 17.07.13 by Thabani Dube The land reform programme that began in 2000 impoverished rural Zimbabweans by depriving farm workers of a means of survival, according to a Poverty Reduction Forum Trust’s study. “The broad structural and economic results of Zimbabwe’s land and agrarian reform programme and its impact on rural development …

2 000 Zimbabwe war vets demand compensation

2 000 Zimbabwe war vets demand compensation http://www.zimdiaspora.com/ WEDNESDAY, 17 JULY 2013 18:26     EDITOR     NEWSABOUT 2 000 people have been camping at a farm on the outskirts of Harare for the past two months demanding compensation from government for participating in the liberation struggle. The group — consisting of both men and women most of them aged …