Evicted White Farmers Offered $3.5 Billion Payout

Evicted White Farmers Offered $3.5 Billion Payout  0  July 9, 2020 9:40 AM Zimbabwe’s white commercial farmers, who were violently evicted from their land in a series of invasions that began two decades ago, said they have been offered $3.5 billion to settle their dispute with the government. Source: Evicted White Farmers Offered $3.5 Billion Payout – The …

Line in the sand crossed as Zimbabwe reaches a deal with evicted white farmers

Line in the sand crossed as Zimbabwe reaches a deal with evicted white farmers Zimbabwe is bankrupt and is suffering from high inflation rates and food shortages ByPeta Thornycroft IN JOHANNESBURG7 July 2020 • 7:31pm Zimbabwe has agreed to pay nearly £3bn in compensation to white farmers who had their land taken from them nearly two …

Covid-19 Lock-down Order : Relaxation for Some Tourist Facilities and Operators

BILL WATCH 43/2020 [6th July 2020] Covid-19 Lock-down Order : Relaxation for Some Tourist Facilities and Operators Late on Friday the 3rd July the Minister of Health and Child Care gazetted an SI which allows restaurants, National Parks facilities and safari operators to resume restricted operations.  The SI is the Public Health (COVID-19 Prevention, Containment …

Farm Compensation 

Farm Compensation  4  July 5, 2020 5:42 PM At Independence in 1980, Zimbabwe inherited a system of agriculture based on several main pillars – first was a basic division of the available agricultural land into three parts – 16 million hectares under commercial farm occupation by about 6 000 large scale farmers – mainly of European …

Labour Matters: Not all contractual obligations are written

Labour Matters: Not all contractual obligations are written   Chronicle 2/7/2020  Davies Ndumiso Sibanda WHEN there is a contractual dispute, many employers and workers think that the dispute will be resolved using their contracts of employment and written conditions of service only. An employment contract goes beyond what the parties have written down but the …

Domestic workers’ salaries gazetted

Domestic workers’ salaries gazetted Chronicle 24/6/2020   Ms Maybe Sibanda Thandeka Moyo-Ndlovu, Chronicle Reporter GOVERNMENT has gazetted a new salary scale for domestic workers who include housekeepers, cooks and gardeners with basic pay ranging from $900 to $1 040. Domestic workers have since lobbied for salaries in forex. According to the newly gazetted Labour Employment …

Covid-19 Regulations and Order : Further Amendments and Relaxation of Lock-down 19 June 2020

BILL WATCH 38/2020 [19th June 2020] Covid-19 Regulations and Order : Further Amendments and Relaxation of Lock-down In the past ten days four statutory instruments [SIs] were published in the Gazette amending the regulations and orders relating to the Covid-19 national lock-down.  The four, all of which are available on the Veritas website, are: The …