Farm eviction rattles Zimbabwe

Farm eviction rattles Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe Situation Times Live 26/2/2019 A video clip of a senior Zanu-PF official’s son arriving to evict the owner of a well-known farm has sent jitters through Zimbabwe. Remembrance Gwaradzimba, son of provincial minister Ellen Gwaradzimba, went to FarFell Coffee Estate accompanied by police and armed with an eviction notice …

Zim Land Commission head office relocates

Zim Land Commission head office relocates Shamiso Dzingire  •  22 February 2019 5:22PM  •  0 comments Daily News The Zimbabwe Land Commission has relocated its head offices from Fidelity Life Towers in the capital to the upmarket suburb of Borrowdale. The move is with effect from February 1. In a notice posted in the press yesterday, …

500 illegal settlers get eviction notices

500 illegal settlers get eviction notices   20/1/2019 The Herald Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau Chief GOVERNMENT has issued 500 eviction letters to illegal settlers who have been disrupting production at commercial farms in the Midlands Province and causing massive land degradation. Midlands Provincial Agricultural Technical and Extension Services (Agritex) officer Mrs Madeline Magwenzi said they …

Lands ministry sets up help desk

Lands ministry sets up help desk    19/2/2019 Source: Lands ministry sets up help desk | Daily News HARARE – Lands and Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement ministry has established a 99-year lease Help Desk. In a statement Lands and Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri said the help desk will facilitate processing of …

Mnangagwa launches crackdown on illegally settled farm occupiers

Mnangagwa launches crackdown on illegally settled farm occupiers eDuzeNet 18/2/2019 Hundreds of families have been left homeless after the government launched a crackdown on people who illegally settled on various farms countrywide. In Umguza, just outside Bulawayo, some 240 families at Stoncroft Farm had homesteads torched by the owner of the farm which they occupied …

Farm evictions loom in Midlands

Farm evictions loom in Midlands   18/2/2019 The Chronicle Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief Government has issued 500 eviction letters to flush out people who illegally resettled themselves on commercial farms thereby disrupting production and causing massive land degradation in the Midlands province. In an interview yesterday, Midlands Provincial Agricultural Technical and Extension Services (Agritex) …

Land Commission’s tenure extended

Land Commission’s tenure extended   18/2/2019 The Chronicle Andile Tshuma, Chronicle Reporter PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has extended the tenure of the seven-member Commission of Inquiry into the sale of State land in and around urban areas by nine months. The Commission of Inquiry which is headed by Justice Tendai Uchena was set up to investigate …

Illegal settlers take over communal areas

Illegal settlers take over communal areas   31/1/2019 The Herald Blessings Chidakwa in Kadoma Illegal settlers living in most rural parts of Mashonaland West Province are now outnumbering genuine home owners, Government reports have revealed. Statistics for Mhondoro-Ngezi and Sanyati districts showed that most of the illegal settlers were artisanal miners and villagers from Gokwe …

Govt to repossess underutilised farms

Govt to repossess underutilised farms   25/1/2019 The Herald Munyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Correspondent Government will soon repossess land from beneficiaries of land reform who have multiple farms, underutilised land and those with farms that exceed the recommended sizes, to enable more people, particularly youths to   benefit. Minister of State for Midlands Provincial Affairs Larry Mavima …