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‘The land is the economy, the economy is the land’, but does this include young people? Reflections from Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe Situation 7-8 minutes There has been a flurry of studies on young people and agriculture in recent years, including in Zimbabwe. The wider critical literature has challenged the standard narratives around youth specific policy …
Government to repossess underutilised land Chronicle 18/1/2021 Dr Anxious Masuka Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief GOVERNMENT has come up with a Statutory Instrument that will see it repossessing underutilised land at irrigation schemes. The SI, which is expected to be gazetted soon, will result in members of irrigation schemes who fail to revive and …
Two decades of dithering: Where is Zim’s agrarian bourgeoisie? Independent 31/12/2020 Terence Chitapi:Activist IT is now exactly two decades since Zimbabwe embarked on the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) which started with the animated land occupations (locally known as jambanja) involving contested land expropriation (Cliffe et al 2011) from approximately 4 500 large-scale white farmers …
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Unequal land, unequal societies – Zimbabwe Situation 7/12/2020 Source: Unequal land, unequal societies | zimbabweland A really important report from the International Land Coalition and Oxfam is just out called ‘Uneven Ground: Land Inequality at the Heart of Unequal Societies’, along with 17 supporting papers. Through new analysis it shows that land inequality is even larger than previously …
Govt formulates National Land Policy Chronicle 4/12/2020 Stakeholders follow proceedings during the provincial Land Policy multi-stakeholder consultation meeting in Bulawayo on Tuesday Mkhululi Ncube/Patrick Chitumba, Chronicle Reporters GOVERNMENT has been urged to avail more land for Bulawayo as the city has run out of expansion space. This was raised during the formulation of the …
‘New land policy should harmonise farming/mining interests’ Chronicle 4/12/2020 Midlands Bureau Chief THE proposed new National Land Policy should help resolve conflicts between miners and farming communities as well as address issues of land inheritance, stakeholders have said. These emerged during a land policy consultative workshop, which was held in Gweru on Monday where …
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High Court bars ex-minister from evicting white farmer By Newsday.Co.Zw – November 25, 2020 FORMER Foreign Affairs deputy minister Edgar Mbwembwe has been ordered by the High Court to stop evicting a white farmer, Simon Ross Worsley-Worswick, after he was declared the rightful owner and occupier of 190 hectares at Chipunga Farm in Marondera. BY CHARLES LAITON …
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Repossession of idle farms starts today The Chronicle 23/11/2020 Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Dr Anxious Masuka prepares to hand over Zunde raMambo/ Isiphala seNkosi farming inputs to Chief Mapanzure (right) while other chiefs look on in Zvishavane yesterday Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief The process of repossessing farms that are under-utilised, …
Understanding a leasehold title Posted on November 6, 2020 by The Zimbabwe Independent in Business Christine Chibage ONE can own real estate as their primary residence or as an investment by means of a rental property, and their ownership is determined through what is known as a title. There are several different kinds of real estate title such as freehold …
Property rights update meeting with farm title holders in Bulawayo 0 October 26, 2020 5:13 PM A meeting of farm title deed owners was held on 14 October 2020 in Bulawayo to update them on legal issues relating to property rights, or the lack of them, in Zimbabwe. Source: Property rights update meeting with farm title holders …
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