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‘Land reform programme failed to benefit war vets’ http://www.dailynews.co.zw Written by Fungi Kwaramba, Staff WriterTuesday, 19 June 2012 15:00 HARARE – Top ex-army generals working in the ministry of Defence yesterday tore into President Robert Mugabe’s land reform programme as having failed to benefit war veterans. They also spoke against the abuse of war veterans, many of …
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War vets sell firewood http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk War veterans who invaded the once productive Jack Hulley Farm in Mutare South during the Zanu (PF) government’s land “reform” programme are currently doing brisk business selling firewood from the exotic and indigenous trees on the property.13.06.1208:20amby Clayton Masekesa The war vets, who have failed to use the land productively, have nothing to live …
The Poverty Trap – The Economics Of Communal Land Use http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7675 June 5th, 2012 By Dale Doré, a discussion paper in the Zimbabwe Land Series Executive Summary This paper recounts how the blossoming of smallholder agriculture in the mid-1980s began to fade when unsustainable costs began to mount. It tries to show that no amount …
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Family of evicted farmer dispute Mutinhiri invasion account http://www.swradioafrica.com By Lance Guma05 June 2012 The family of the late tobacco farmer Guy Cartwright have spoken out about how former ZANU PF MP Tracy Mutinhiri and her ex husband, a retired army brigadier, violently took over their Waltondale Farm in Marondera. Mutinhiri was the ZANU …
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Zimbabwean Government to Compensate White Farmers The Zimbabwean government has invited over 1000 white farmers to collect compensation for farms that were seized under President Robert Mugabe’s directives. Secretary of lands, Ngoni Masoka, issued a statement in state-run newspaper The Herald calling for dispossessed farmers to contact the lands ministry. Masoka said: “The former owners …
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My perspective on the on-going preparations for a National Land Audit http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/7630 May 21st, 2012 [Part of the Zimbabwe Land Series] By Mandivamba Rukuni Introduction In this article I discuss how the land issue has been handled by the GNU as from its formation in 2009. Although progress towards a National Land Audit (NLA) …
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Biti queries Green Fuel’s land deals http://www.newzimbabwe.com 21/05/2012 00:00:00 by Business Reporter FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti has claimed Green Fuel, the company behind the US$600 million ethanol project at Chisumbanje, did not pay a penny for the vast tracks of land it now controls which represent up to four percent of the country. The project is facing collapse …
In Land’s Bounty, a Political Chip http://www.nytimes.com Lynsey Addario for The New York Times Residents celebrating after receiving checks. As President Robert G. Mugabe pushes for new elections this year, the drive to put more wealth into the hands of black Zimbabweans is seen by allies as a politically popular path to victory. By …
‘UK won’t fund land reform now’ http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:57 Owen Gagare BRITAIN’S Ambassador to Zimbabwe Deborah Bronnert (pictured) says she does not see her country funding Zimbabwe’s land reform programme in the near future despite an agreement by the three political parties to Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement for the country’s former coloniser to pay compensation for …