Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
White farmer reclaims farm http://www.newzimbabwe.com/ 04/01/2011 00:00:00 by Ngoni Chanakira AGRICULTURE Minister Herbert Murerwa has confirmed that at least one white former commercial farmer has been allowed back on his land after the government kicked out the black beneficiary for not using the property. The white farmer – who cannot be named as authorities want …
Murerwa threatens to repossess farms http://www.newzimbabwe.com/ 29/12/2010 00:00:00 by Staff Reporter THE government will repossess farms that continue to lie idle while farmers failing to make improvements on their properties also risk lose their land, a cabinet minister has warned. Agriculture Minister Herbert Murerwa said some beneficiaries of the government’s controversial land reforms were undermining …
Eric Bloch: Discriminatory, unfair land ownership http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:37 YET again the hierarchy of Zanu PF has expounded on that party’s entrenched belief that Zimbabwean land is wholly and exclusively for the country’s indigenous population. That racialistic, discriminatory contention is not limited only to land ownership, but also to land usage. This …
Illegal lessors must lose farms Herald, Monday, December 06, 2010 Government embarked on land reform about a decade ago to empower themajority of Zimbabweans with their primary resource that had for a longtime remained in the hands of a few white farmers and absentee landlords. Over 70 percent of the country’s arable land was occupied …
Illegal leases to cost farmers land Herald, Monday, December 06, 2010 By Obert Chifamba GOVERNMENT could, at the conclusion of investigations, repossess landfrom farmers found guilty of leasing farms to white former commercialfarmers in Hurungwe District, Mashonaland West. Speaking after a meeting in Chinhoyi last Friday to discuss allegationsof land leasing, Mashonaland West Governor and …
White farmers return to Zimbabwe land http://www.telegraph.co.uk At least 120 white farmers in Zimbabwe have returned to the land by setting up farms under leasehold deals with the black beneficiaries of Robert Mugabe’s land seizure policies.By Peta Thornycroft in Harare 11:01PM GMT 03 Dec 2010 The emergence of a new group of white farmers has …
MDC calls for non-partisan land audit http://www.swradioafrica.com/ By Alex Bell03 December 2010 The MDC has this week urgently called for a transparent and non-partisan land audit, calling it “paramount to national survival.” The calls come after ZANU PF’s greed was exposed in the media this week in reports that detailed how a select group of …
Zimbabwe’s new land barons http://www.zimonline.co.za/ Zimbabwe’s new land barons by ZimOnline Investigations Team Tuesday 30 November 2010 HARARE — President Robert Mugabe, his loyalists in ZANU-PF, cabinet ministers, senior army and government officials and judges now own nearly 5 million …
New farmers in land lease deals By Isdore Guvamombe recently in Karoi More than 30 beneficiaries of the Government’s land reform programme and on old resettlement schemes in Hurungwe District are allegedly leasing land to white former commercial farmers for as little as three to 10 percent of gross annual produce. There are also reports …
Zimbabwe land reform ‘not a failure’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/ 18 November 2010 Last updated at 02:48 GMT By Joseph Winter BBC News Zimbabwe’s often violent land reform programme has not been the complete economic disaster widely portrayed, a new study has found. Most of the country’s 4,000 white farmers – then the backbone of …