Zimbabwe is offering land back to BIPPAs and black farmers. Betrayal or the law? Here are the facts

Zimbabwe is offering land back to BIPPAs and black farmers. Betrayal or the law? Here are the facts Jekesai Njikizana/AFP The Zimbabwe Mail | 1 September 2020 Zimbabwe is offering land back to BIPPAs and black farmers. Betrayal or the law? Here are the facts The Zimbabwe government has announced that it will offer land …

Fresh Chingwizi headache for govt

Fresh Chingwizi headache for govt    12/7/2019 Source: Fresh Chingwizi headache for govt | Newsday (News) BY TATENDA CHITAGU Survivors of the Tugwi-Mukosi floods in 2014 are demanding that government pays their much delayed compensation in United States dollars or at the interbank rate after government took five years to settle. Government discarded the multi-currency regime …

15 000ha farmland for war vets

15 000ha farmland for war vets   4/7/2019 The Herald Joseph Madzimure Senior Reporter GOVERNMENT has allocated war veterans 15 000 hectares of farmland in the country’s eight agricultural provinces following complaints that the liberation war fighters were excluded from the Land Reform Programme, The Herald has established. Government has since ordered the eight provincial …

Massive conservancy development blocked as police officers continue to violate a 2007 court order

Massive conservancy development blocked as police officers continue to violate a 2007 court order     30/6/2019 Zimbabwean During a recent visit to Zimbabwe, Dave Joubert managed to force his way onto his farm, which has been occupied by members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police since they invaded it in 2007, to survey the damage. This …

Use idle land to fight unemployment: Minister

Use idle land to fight unemployment: Minister   28/6/2019 The Herald Manicaland Correspondent Manicaland Provincial Affairs Minister Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba has called for the utilisation of idle land to curb unemployment.Speaking at the First Capital Bank young farmers’ market fair in Mutare on Wednesday, Dr Gwaradzimba said youths should stop the dependency syndrome and take …

Farmers get nod to lease farms

Farmers get nod to lease farms  Tabitha Mutenga Features Editor Financial Gazette 26/6/2019  NEWLY resettled farmers have been granted permission by government to sub-let their farms in an effort to promote increased agriculture production.  Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri said the new administration is not against the sub-leasing of farms, but concerned about turning farming into …

Shiri pledges land for youths

Shiri pledges land for youths – NewsDay Zimbabwe   25/6/2019 By Simbarashe Sithole LANDS, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri has promised to prioritise youths in the allocation of agricultural land as his ministry crafts a national land policy to forge partnership with beneficiaries who are not fully utilising their allocated land. …

Midlands land developers spill the beans

Midlands land developers spill the beans – NewsDay Zimbabwe   25/6/2019 By Brenna Matendere Private land developers in Midlands province who were allocated State land for resale as residential and commercial stands, paid kickbacks of more than US$5 000 to top government officials, it has been learnt. This was revealed at the ongoing Land Commission …