Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Anger at Malema’s ‘insane’ land-grab comments FIENIE GROBLER | JOHANNESBURG June 20, 2011 Agricultural organisations across the racial spectrum spoke out on Monday against African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) leader Julius Malema’s land-grab talk, while the government, the ruling party and business were slow to respond. Agri SA and the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) …
Malema’s theft policy would drive SA off rails May 27 2011 – Independent Online AFP ANC Youth League president Julius Malema. The Afrikaans newspapers this week focused on the extraordinary statements by ANC general secretary Gwede Mantashe about race and land, two issues that probably define the trenches of our political and economic debates. Mantashe …
Safeguard yourselves, farmers told 19 June 2011 – News24 / SAPA Cape Town – Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder on Sunday called on farmers to “safeguard” themselves, following ANC Youth League president Julius Malema‘s vow earlier in the day to “take the land without payment”. In a statement, he warned that Malema’s comments on …
Minister’s ‘absurd’ proposals flung out of parliament http://www.swradioafrica.com by Irene Madongo21 June 2011 Indigenisation Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has been forced to eat humble pie after his ‘absurd’ proposals to radicalise indigenisation laws were flung out of parliament, a legislator has explained. The ZANU PF minister has now accepted that they went overboard and will have to come up …
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Farm workers children drop out of school http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Thousands of pupils at farms around the country have dropped out of school as their parents are struggling to raise school fees due to the meagre wages paid by new farmers.19.06.1112:37pmFungai Kwaramba Harare According to the General Agriculture Plantation Workers Union Zimbabwe, the low wages have had an adverse effect …
Elephant kills Vic Falls head guide http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Saturday, 18 June 2011 21:59 By Dusty Miller TRAGEDY struck at Victoria Falls Safari Lodge June 8, when the head guide at the award-winning Victoria Falls Safari Lodge, Tendekai Madzivanzira was killed by a bull elephant in full musth (ready for breeding.) Madzivanzira, who was armed with a rifle and …
Politicians must prioritise agri sector – Rukuni http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/ Zimbabwe seriously needs politicians who give top priority to agriculture say Professor Mandivamba Rukuni.18.06.1101:25pmNgoni Chanakira Harare He told a three-day workshop in Harare last week, organised by The Mandi Rukuni Seminars, that the country’s administrators should pave the way forward for the once-thriving agriculture sector to return to the heights …
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Only 300 commercial farmers left http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/ There are only 300 white commercial farmers actively engaged in farming in Zimbabwe, the former President of the influential Commercial Farmers Union, John Laurie, has confirmed.18.06.1101:26pmNgoni Chanakira Harare In an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the recent agriculture workshop Laurie said others were doing contract farming, which is more lucrative. “I stopped …
Beef production nose-dives http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Annual beef production, which in 2005 stood at more than 90 000 tonnes, has nose-dived and only 63 breeders are left, says National University of Science and Technology Professor Themba Dlodlo.18.06.1112:51pmNgoni Chanakira Harare “In 2000 we also had 250 breeders with 20 000 head of cattle but in 2011 we only have 12 breeds …
Black farmers prove critics wrong: Mugabe http://www.newzimbabwe.com/ 18/06/2011 00:00:00 by Gilbert Nyambabvu PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe says the country’s economic recovery – driven largely by agriculture and mining — has helped prove wrong the perception that black farmers are not as productive as white counterparts. Zimbabwe’s agriculture-based economy hit the skids over the last decade with critics blaming Mugabe’s …