Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
War Vets Demand More Land http://news.radiovop.com/ 27/09/2010 12:49:00 Bulawayo, September 27, 2010 – War veterans who were allocated land in Bubi District, Matabeleland North Province, are demanding more land, saying they were allocated small portions during the 2000 land grabs. District chairman of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) in Nkayi, Michael Tshaliba, …
Army, police implicated in poaching http://www.zimonline.co.za/ by Own Correspondent Monday 27 September 2010 HARARE – Senior ZANU PF officials, policemen and soldiers have been fingered in a fresh wave of poaching activities taking place in the Beitbridge area where more than 200 zebras have been slaughtered for their skins in the past two months. Animal …
Top Zanu PF chefs linked to Farmtec http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Saturday, 25 September 2010 16:57 FARMTEC Spares & Implements, one of the companies that led the seizure of Reserve Bank assets over a US$2,1 million debt has links to Zanu PF chefs, according to investigations by The Standard.Farmtec supplied the RBZ with tractors in 2008 at the …
Cattle rustlers terrorise villagers http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Sunday, 26 September 2010 10:21 DESPERATE villagers in Chief Chirau’s area in Makonde district have written to police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri asking him to intervene after cattle rustlers believed to work in cahoots with rogue officers and politicians stole 47 head of cattle. The villagers from wards 11 and 12 …
Used car imports banned http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Sunday, 26 September 2010 10:40 THE government has banned the importation of second-hand vehicles as part of a raft of new measures aimed at arresting the carnage on the country’s roads. According to Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use) Regulations published in the government gazette of September 17, the Ministry …
Zim in Catch 22 situation over mulled elections http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 24 September 2010 09:18 ZIMBABWE’S business organisations, labour and politicians could be in a catch 22 situation as tension around holding next year’s general election hots up.The Employers’ Confederation of Zimbabwe (Emcoz) — a grouping of employers — became the first business organisation to appeal …
Chegutu farmer pleads with PM Tsvangirai http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 24 September 2010 12:49 A FRENCH national whose Chegutu farmhouse was burnt to the ground by suspected Zanu PF supporters has expressed anger at Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s failure to intervene despite the property being protected by a bilateral investment and protection agreement.The occupation of farms protected …
Zanu PF invaders parcel out Glen Forest Farm http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 24 September 2010 16:08 ZANU PF members who invaded Glen Forest Farm just outside Harare are selling the land under the name of the late Joanna Mafuyana, wife of Zimbabwe’s founding father, Joshua Nkomo, who died in 1999, the Zimbabwe Independent has established. The case …
Zimbabwe illegal occupiers destroy animal reserve http://www.washingtonpost.com .By ANGUS SHAWThe Associated PressFriday, September 24, 2010; 7:23 AM HARARE, Zimbabwe — Illegal occupiers on an animal reserve in southern Zimbabwe have killed hundreds of animals and torn down several miles (kilometers) of protective fencing, a conservation group said Friday. Investigators of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force …
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“Investors Should Help Democratise Zimbabwe” http://www.ipsnews.net/ By Stanley Kwenda JOHANNESBURG, Sep 23, 2010 (IPS) – While investors need assurances about property rights and the protection of investments before they will invest in Zimbabwe’s precarious economy, the state of democracy in the Southern African country should also be a consideration. These were some of the opinions …