Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Top Zanu PF official in land grab http://www.dailynews.co.zw By Godfrey Mtimba Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:56 MASVINGO – Zanu PF central committee member, Clemence Makwarimba left awhite commercial farmer Brett Connar and his family destitute after hegrabbed their farm 20km east of Masvingo city, as farm invasions continuein defiance of the GPA. Zanu PF officials …
New farmers lose faith in land reform …‘land redistribution a political weapon’ http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/ Written by Jane MakoniWednesday, 06 October 2010 19:51 Most resettled farmers do not think the land “reform” programme was meant to economically empower the poor, but was used as a political weapon by Zanu (PF) to punish and humiliate white commercial farmers, …
World Divided Over New Scramble for African Land http://allafrica.com/stories/201010040147.html Paul Redfern 4 October 2010 Nairobi – A World Bank report has confirmed that 45 million hectares of land in developing countries were bought in 2009, a tenfold jump from the previous decade. Moreover, two-thirds of these controversial “land grabs” have been in Africa where critics …
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Land reform has failed in South Africa http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:45 LAND reform in South Africa is still having major problems. No positive outcome seems possible in the foreseeable future. Government is unhappy about the situation, new (mostly black) farmers are dissatisfied, and commercial farmers try to continue “in a state of constant …
A Fourth Chimurenga, for gold http://www.irinnews.org Photo: David Morton/IRIN Sometimes mining pays better than farming Kadoma, 1 October 2010 (IRIN) – A new wave of farm invasions in Zimbabwe has been dubbed the Fourth Chimurenga (liberation struggle) – the fast track-land reform programme launched by President Robert Mugabe in 2000 was the third …
War Vets Demand More Land http://news.radiovop.com/ 27/09/2010 12:49:00 Bulawayo, September 27, 2010 – War veterans who were allocated land in Bubi District, Matabeleland North Province, are demanding more land, saying they were allocated small portions during the 2000 land grabs. District chairman of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) in Nkayi, Michael Tshaliba, …
Chegutu farmer pleads with PM Tsvangirai http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 24 September 2010 12:49 A FRENCH national whose Chegutu farmhouse was burnt to the ground by suspected Zanu PF supporters has expressed anger at Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s failure to intervene despite the property being protected by a bilateral investment and protection agreement.The occupation of farms protected …
Zanu PF invaders parcel out Glen Forest Farm http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 24 September 2010 16:08 ZANU PF members who invaded Glen Forest Farm just outside Harare are selling the land under the name of the late Joanna Mafuyana, wife of Zimbabwe’s founding father, Joshua Nkomo, who died in 1999, the Zimbabwe Independent has established. The case …
Gold panning behind latest farm invasions? http://www.dailynews.co.zw/ By Staff ReporterWednesday, 22 September 2010 18:49 HARARE – A new wave of farm invasions, particularly in Mashonaland West province is mainly motivated by gold panning, one of the affected parties has told Daily News. Plumway Estates, a US$3,6 million consolidated farming project, says a significant portion of …
Stop fresh farm invasions: Chombo Herald, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Herald Reporter ZANU-PF will not tolerate fresh farm invasions and has warned against thepractice saying the law will be evoked against those who do so, theparty’s secretary for lands and rural resettlement Cde IgnatiusChombo has said. Cde Chombo urged the people of Zvimba District to …