U-turn on white farmers: Policy inconsistency threat persists

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U-turn on white farmers: Policy inconsistency threat persists Posted on September 4, 2020 by ambizwo@newsday.co.zw in Main News Tinashe Kairiza GOVERNMENT’s dramatic turnaround to offer farms to former white farms is indicative of the Zanu PF government’s policy inconsistency, which has decimated the once flourishing agriculture sector, and in the process, cast Zimbabwe’s fragile economy into a tailspin. In a …

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‘Brace for storms,  cyclones, flash floods’

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‘Brace for storms,  cyclones, flash floods’ By Sindiso Mhlope Daily News 4/9/2020 ZIMBABWE is likely to experience tropical cyclones in the forthcoming rainfall season which will result in floods, violent storms and damages to homesteads due to La Nina weather patterns, Environment minister Mangaliso Ndhlovu has said. A La Nina is a weather pattern that …

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‘Zim not tossing its land reforms’

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‘Zim not tossing its land reforms’ By Sindiso Mhlope Daily News 4/9/2020 NEWLY-APPOINTED Lands and Agriculture minister, Anxious Masuka, said yesterday that the government’s decision to compensate and restore land titles to white former commercial farmers was not a reversal of the country’s land reform programme. This comes after the government recently signed a US$3,5 …

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Falling catches worry fishermen

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Falling catches worry fishermen Herald 4/9/2020   Kapenta Rig Lake – Kariba Walter Nyamukondiwa Kariba Bureau COMPANIES and individual fishermen in Kariba who have been hit by falling catches, are seeking ways of helping restock the lake to reverse the decline, with poaching and overfishing by licensed rigs throughout the breeding season emerging as major …

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Sustainable water projects need interactive participation

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Sustainable water projects need interactive participation  Herald 4/9/2020   Rudo Grace Gwata-Charamba Correspondent Sustainability, an element that almost always guarantees the success of initiatives, relates to the continued long-term benefits from a development intervention after the associated project or programme has been completed. In the case of the water crisis in Zimbabwe, for example, sustainability …

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We’ve always wanted to give land back: MDC

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We’ve always wanted to give land back: MDC Herald 4/9/2020  MDC-Alliance treasurer Dr Tapiwa Mashakada Political Editor A TOP MDC official has said compensating white former farmers and giving back land acquired during the Land Reform Programme has always been on the opposition party’s priority list. This quashes the opposition’s stance on the latest move …

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‘No need to panic over land’

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‘No need to panic over land’    Herald 4/9/2020 Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa (third from right), ICT Postal and Courier Services Minister Dr Jenfan Muswere (centre), TelOne managing director Mrs Chipo Mtasa (second from right) and Huawei Zimbabwe managing director Mr Shao Jie Jason (second from left, back row) pose for …

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Pastures remain critical in Beitbridge

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Pastures remain critical in Beitbridge  Chronicle 4/9/2020   Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Bureau THE state of livestock and pastures remains dire in Beitbridge district where 9 000 cattle succumbed to drought last year. Livestock production is one of the major sources of livelihoods for many people in the area and crops cannot do well under the …

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Tourism sector calls for wildlife protection

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Tourism sector calls for wildlife protection    Chronicle 4/9/2020 Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter STAKEHOLDERS in the tourism and safari industry have implored Government to closely monitor human activities such as mining in wildlife areas to preserve the environment and promote tourism. The stakeholders who included environmentalists, wildlife conservationists, safari and tour operators, hoteliers, heads …

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Unpacking the farm compensation programme, why so much anxiety?

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Unpacking the farm compensation programme, why so much anxiety?   Chronicle 4/9/2020 Prosper Ndlovu THE loud anxiety around the Government’s farm compensation programme confirms, as always, the centrality of the land resource in the Zimbabwean political economy narrative, dating back to the pre-independence era. This time around what is more interesting is that the opposition forces, …

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