Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Cattle thief jailed for 189 years http://www.newzimbabwe.com/ 04/07/2011 00:00:00 by Staff Reporter A CATTLE thief has been sentenced to 189 years in jail for stock theft – dwarfing the previous record sentence of 47 years for the crime. Fabion Nyamayedenga, 40, from Murehwa, raided farms and kraals in Mashonaland East province between October 2009 and December 2010.He …
118,5m kgs flue cured tobacco goes under the hammer http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:37 A TOTAL of 118,5 million kgs of flue cured tobacco valued at US$323,4 million have so far been sold since the auction floors opened in February this year.The sales are up 27,14%, from the 93,1 million kgs valued at US$276,5 million sold during …
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Eastern Zimbabwe Plantations Face Grim Future http://www.voanews.com June 27, 2011 Peta Thornycroft | Chipinge, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe’s eastern Manicaland Province may have taken the hardest blows from President Robert Mugabe’s 11 years of seizures of land from white farmers. . In eastern Zimbabwe, years of neglect have left many plantations that once produced avocados, macademia nuts, coffee and timber …
The end of an era for Zimbabwe’s last white farmers? http://www.telegraph.co.uk Despite the introduction of a power-sharing government two years ago, state-backed farm seizures have continued. Colin Freeman meets one of the last white farmers still at work in Zimbabwe. Mr Cloete has spent tens of thousands of dollars in legal bills fighting the …
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“Racketeering by regulation,” Indig Act unconstitutional – RAU http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/ The legal validity of the indigenisation legislation plan that aims to transfer the majority control of foreign mining firms to locals is open to legal challenge on many fronts.23.06.1103:09pmChief Reporter The relevant act could be unconstitutional in several ways, says a report released last week by the Research and …
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SADC judges slam illegal closure of Tribunal http://www.swradioafrica.com By Alex Bell24 June 2011 The top legal minds from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have all demanded compensation over the closure of the region’s human rights Tribunal, a move the judges have said was ‘illegal’. In the strongest criticism yet of the shock move by SADC leaders …
‘Security forces cause confusion at auction floor’ http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:41 Bernard Mpofu A PARLIAMENTARY portfolio committee on agriculture, lands, water and resettlement has blamed Zimbabwe’s security forces for exacerbating confusion and congestion at the country’s largest tobacco auction floor. This comes amid a push by legislators for more auction floors, a decision facing resistance from …
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Cotton buyers, farmers haggle over prices http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:43 COTTON buyers and farmers are at loggerheads over prices producers feel are too low, businessdigest has established. A union representing farmers, the Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU) is already urging farmers to hold onto their crop until buyers pay more or come up with plausible reasons why …
Latest IMF report paints gloomy picture http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 23 June 2011 20:04 By Jimmy Girdlestone ‘O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie usTo see ourselves as others see us!’— Robert Burns. FED on a constant official diet of the country’s vast natural resources presenting an irresistible magnet to capital rich foreigners desperate to profit from the current …
ZESA, politicians should be held accountable for massive forest destruction http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk MUTARE – Dumisani Jani (42) (not his real name) was retrenched from employment 10 years ago leaving him with no source of income to look after his family.14.06.1009:47amMISA But due to continuous power cuts in the city, Jani’s life is back on tracks as he takes advantage …
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