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Minister challenged over Mugabe farms www.newzimbabwe 06/04/2013 00:00:00 by Staff Reporter JUSTICE Minister Patrick Chinamasa has denied allegations President Robert Mugabe and his family own 14 farms totalling 16,000 hectares around the country. Chinamasa was challenged about the number of properties owned by the First Family and his own seizure of a 600 hectare farm when he appeared …
BBC roasts Chinamasa http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ April 5, 2013 in Politics JUSTICE minister Patrick Chinamasa was this week roasted by Stephen Sackur on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)’s Hard Talk programme where he struggled to defend Zanu PF and President Robert Mugabe’s land seizures under the controversial land reform programme. Report by Herbert Moyo A visibly angry Chinamasa buckled under …
New draft constitution entrenches land seizures http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ March 28, 2013 in Business ZANU PF used the draft constitution to entrench its position on land reform by constitutionalising the 2000 land invasions and giving security of tenure to land occupiers under the chaotic fast-track land reforms. Report by Paidamoyo Muzulu The draft, endorsed by a reported 3,1 million …
War Veterans Besiege Govenor Maluleke’s Office http://www.voazimbabwe.com/ Obert Pepukai25.03.2013 WASHINGTON — War veterans and their wives Monday besieged Governor Titus Maluleke’s offices at the Benjamin Burombo building in Masvingo for the second day running demanding, among other things, to be allocated sugar cane plots in the lowveld. The former freedom fighters also demanded that some youths arrested in Bikita …
Zanu PF wants to grab my farm — Mutinhiri http://www.dailynews.co.zw Friday, 15 March 2013 10:33 HARARE – Ex-Zanu PF Women’s League political commissar and legislator Tracy Mutinhiri claims her former comrades are moving in to grab her farm as preparations for elections gain momentum. Mutinhiri, who is now a member of the MDC, nearly lost her farm …
The proposed constitution gives legal sanction to government land grabs http://online.wsj.com March 14, 2013, 4:24 p.m. ET Zimbabwe Approaches the Falls By CRAIG RICHARDSON Zimbabwe, since its independence in 1980, has seemed perpetually either on the precipice of disaster or primed for great success. Over the years, it has been called the “jewel of Africa” for its …
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ister Murerwa Elita Chikwati Agriculture ReporterGovernment has registered with the Deeds Registry 131 lease agreements as it moves to ensure that the 99-year leases given to farmers can be bankable.This comes at a time the amendment of the 99-year leases awaits Cabinet approval, giving hope to farmers who want to use them …
Zanu PF officials bleed Lupane council http://www.thestandard.co.zw March 3, 2013 in Local BULAWAYO — The son of Mines and Mining Development minister, Obert Mpofu, has been dragged to court for failure to pay land tax to the Lupane council in Matabeleland North. BY NQOBANI NDLOVU The Kusile Rural District Council (RDC) handed over Jabulani Mpofu to its lawyers …
Impala Unit’s Land Is Grabbed by Zimbabwe With 30 Days to Appeal http://www.bloomberg.com By Godfrey Marawanyika & Brian Latham – Mar 2, 2013 1:14 AM GMT+1000 Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. (IMP)’s unit Zimplats Holdings Ltd. (ZIM) will have 27,498 hectares (67,949 acres) of land seized by Zimbabwe, with the company given 30 days to appeal, according to …
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Chiredzi farmers get offer letters http://www.herald.co.zw Thursday, 28 February 2013 00:00 Masvingo BureauGovernment has issued nearly 150 offer letters to new A2 sugar cane farmers allocated plots at Hippo Valley and Triangle sugar cane estates.This brings to 1 000 the number of indigenous people now into commercial cane production since the inception of the land reform programme …