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Repossessed land up for foreign investment Financial Gazette 12/3/2020 Tabitha Mutenga Managing Editor JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says the government is repossessing land from multiple farm owners for re-distribution as well as possible investment activities. This was after government had recently confirmed that Belarus was interested in investing in crop and livestock production, agro-processing, …
Govt returns black-owned farms Financial Gazette 12/3/2020 Tabitha Mutenga Managing Editor PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has signalled an intention to return farms seized from indigenous farmers and foreign investors, as the government seeks to spruce up its image and has seemingly buckled under international pressure to restore property rights, analysts have said. As South African ambassador …
Respect property rights – SA envoy Financial Gazette 6/3/2020 Paul Nyakazeya Group Digital Editor ZIMBABWE must urgently correct issues around property rights, bilateral agreements, dividend repatriation and the elimination of cartels-driven graft as well as encouragement of industrial competition if it is to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), and resuscitate its floundering economy,. South …
Agriculture land audit complete Herald 12/3/2020 Minister Shiri Freeman Razemba Senior Reporter AN initial report of the second phase of the national agricultural land audit, expected to rationalise farm ownership and sizes countrywide, is now complete and will soon be made public, a Cabinet minister said. In July last year, the Government started rolling …
Zim to give back farms taken under land reform programme 20:20 10/03/2020 Crecey Kuyedzwa News24 Zimbabwe has announced plans to give back land controversially taken over under its controversial fast track land reform programme, which started in 2000. The programme, which was criticised for being both chaotic and violent, resulted in numerous deaths in the course …
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Soil as the source of land fights Herald 7/3/2020 Elliot Ziwira At the Bookstore It may be a historical fact that the anti-colonial struggles of the 1890s and 1970s were precipitated by the land issue, but the viewpoint that it was about the soil holds sway. In its broader sense, land covers a wide …
Govt moves to clean anomalies on farms 0 March 8, 2020 4:10 PM Source: Govt moves to clean anomalies on farms | Sunday Mail (Top Stories) Lincoln Towindo INDIGENOUS farmers whose farms were appropriated by Government under the Fast-Track Land Reform Programme can now apply to repossess their land under new regulations gazetted on Friday. Farms which …
Farm downsizing: Celebrating land ownership Herald 6/3/2020 Elliot Ziwira Senior Writer Political freedom alone without ownership of the means of production adds up to nothing, which is why the recent move by Government to rationalise the sizes of individual farms countrywide, is a step in the right direction as it will go a long way …
BILL WATCH 6/2020 [4th March 2020] Alteration of Maximum Farm Sizes : Why? Introduction On the 14th February 2020, the Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement published the Rural Land (Farm Sizes) (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 (No. 2) (SI 41 of 2020) [link] which announced new maximum farm sizes permitted at law in all …
Unlocking Zim’s dead capital Posted on October 11, 2019 by The Independent in Analysis Victor Bhoroma…analyst AGRICULTURE remains central to Zimbabwe’s economic revival hopes even though its contribution has declined to less than 12% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2018. Agriculture has strong backward and forward integration to the manufacturing sector for provision of raw materials and agricultural inputs. …