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Lands ministry seeks $40m to compensate white farmers – NewsDay Zimbabwe 5/11/2018 THE Lands and Agriculture ministry has submitted a $40 million bid in the 2019 National Budget to compensate white former commercial farmers, with the government promising to pay half of the amount, Parliament heard yesterday. BY VENERANDA LANGA Finance ministry director Peter …
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Zimbabwe land auditors want to see development plans and production records eDuzeNet 1/11/2018 The Zimbabwe Land Commission wishes to advise its Stakeholders and the General Public that it will be carrying out a National Comprehensive Agricultural Land Audit from the 22 October to 24 November 2018. The audit will be carried out in all the …
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Lack of title deeds worries farmers Pauline Hurungudo • 30 October 2018 12:13PM • 0 comments Daily News HARARE – Commercial farmers have lamented lack of security of tenure or title deeds that can enable them to borrow from banks to buy machinery or pay for seasonal expenses such as seeds or fertiliser. Commercial Farmers Union …
Farms and mines for war veterans The Herald 26/10/2018 Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent WAR veterans will soon be authors of their own destiny as Government has allocated them a farm in each province and reserved mining claims for them to venture into sustainable economic development projects, an official has said. Deputy Minister of …
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Farmers must co-operate with auditors 5-6 minutes ZLC chairperson Commissioner Tendai Bare The Chronicle The Zimbabwe Land Commission (ZLC) launched a national farm audit yesterday, an investigation that is scheduled to end on November 24. Eight districts — Hurungwe in Mashonaland West Province, Wedza in Mashonaland East, Muzarabani in Mashonaland Central, Kwekwe …
Work to restore property rights in progress The Chronicle 23/10/2018 Business Reporter GOVERNMENT has started working towards restoring property rights to add impetus to attracting Foreign Direct Investment and rebuilding the economy, the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has said. His sentiments follow decades of Zimbabwe’s isolation from the …
Land audit begins 22/10/2018 ZLC chairperson Commissioner Tendai Bare The Chronicle Elita Chikwati, Harare Bureau THE Zimbabwe Land Commission has deployed teams of 60 enumerators in all eight farming provinces for the comprehensive agricultural land audit which begins today. The audit teams will have identity particulars and farmers will not be asked to pay …
Comprehensive agric land audit begins Monday The Herald 20/10/2018 Elita chikwati Senior Agriculture Reporter The Zimbabwe Land Commission (ZLC) will begin the national comprehensive agricultural land audit on Monday.The audit seeks to identify land use patterns, optimal farming activities and influence appropriate policies for increased productivity, poverty alleviation and sustainable utilisation of agricultural …
Zim plans to reintroduce land bank Financial Gazette 18/10/2018 Tabitha Mutenga Features Editor The Zimbabwe Land Commission is working on improving the 99-year lease by introducing a basket of rights that will make it bankable. Banks are reluctant to accept the 99-year lease because it is not tradable. Addressing farmers at the Zimbabwe Farmers’ Union’s …
Lessons from Zim’s failed land reform 17/10/2018 Source: Lessons from Zim’s failed land reform – DailyNews Live William Gumede 16 October 2018 HARARE – Zimbabwe’s failed populist-based land reform is a salutary lessonfor South Africa on how land reform must be pragmatic, safe-guardcommercial agriculture and focus on boosting ordinary subsistence, small,medium and emerging black …