Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Grain Marketing Board To Fire 1 650 Workers http://news.radiovop.com/ 04/10/2010 11:22:00 Bulawayo, October 04, 2010 – Zimbabwe’s grain parastatal is set to retrench 1 650 employees before December as part of its turnaround programme amid revelations that its expenditure exceeded overall income. Grain Marketing Board (GMB) officials said the retrenchments are part of cost cutting …
Farmers take Biti, Chihuri to Supreme Court http://www.swradioafrica.com by Irene Madongo04 October 2010 Commercial farmers want the Supreme Court to look into their claims of being racially victimised by the government in the on-going illegal farm evictions. They are also demanding compensation for the violent acquisition of equipment and materials. Last Thursday the Commercial Farmers …
People want jobs, not indeginisation: Khupe http://www.newzimbabwe.com 03/10/2010 00:00:00by Staff Reporter DEPUTY Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe has said Zimbabweans are more interested in jobs rather than ownership of companies and inisted the government’s indeginisation programme was a death knell for the country’s largely comatose productive sectors. Khupe, who is the deputy leader of the MDC-T …
Nearly 1mn Zimbabweans to need food aid until December : FEWSNET http://www.apanews.net/ APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) A United States-funded famine early warning system said Sunday that close to a million Zimbabweans will require food aid until the end of the year and the number could rise by more than 40 percent before the next harvest in March …
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Zesa ordered to stop billing for no service http://www.dailynews.co.zw By Pindai DubeSunday, 03 October 2010 17:46 BULAWAYO – Energy and Power Development minister, Elton Mangoma, has ordered power utility ZESA to stop billing consumers during load-shedding periods. Of late most residents of Bulawayo and Harare have been receiving exorbitant bills despite going for hours without …
Zanu activates terror machinery http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Written by Vusimuzi BhebheSunday, 03 October 2010 05:31 HARARE -Zanu (PF) is reactivating its terror machinery spearheaded by war veterans, traditional chiefs and state security agents, in a chilling reminder to Zimbabweans that the forces of darkness that stalked the run-up to the June 2008 presidential run-off are still intact …
Zimbabwe white farmers seek court intervention in land dispute http://www.apanews.net APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) Zimbabwe’s white farmers have applied to the country’s Supreme Court for an order granting a moratorium on ongoing evictions from farms expropriated by the government and preventing further acquisition of equipment and materials, the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) said here Saturday. CFU president …
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Villagers barter goats for bag of maize http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Written by Vusimuzi BhebheSaturday, 02 October 2010 16:29 HARARE – Hungry Zimbabwean villagers have turned to are exchanging a goat for a 50kg bag of maize amid warnings that nearly a million people in rural areas will need food aid between October and December. Barter trade is …
RBZ thwarts Zanu PF looters of farm tools http://www.thestandard.co.zw Saturday, 02 October 2010 18:25 BULAWAYO – The Reserve Bank has stopped Zanu PF officials in Matabeleland from grabbing and distributing amongst themselves its farm mechanisation equipment that has been lying idle for the past three years in Bulawayo. Zanu PF officials in the southern region …
Land reform has failed in South Africa http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:45 LAND reform in South Africa is still having major problems. No positive outcome seems possible in the foreseeable future. Government is unhappy about the situation, new (mostly black) farmers are dissatisfied, and commercial farmers try to continue “in a state of constant …