Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Soldiers ordered out of farm July 11, 2015 in National, News Twenty-two Masvingo villagers from whose houses were razed down by soldiers two weeks ago breathed a sigh of relief this week after Gutu resident magistrate Edwin Marecha ordered the armed forces off the farm. By Tatenda Chitagu The villagers, from Chomufuli Farm in Gutu, last …
Farmer in court for elephant carcass theft July 4, 2015 Local News Leonard Ncube Victoria Falls ReporterVICTORIA Falls farmer Tendai Tidings Musasa on Thursday appeared in court charged with stealing an elephant carcass which he later donated to organisers of the 21st February Movement celebrations to mark President Robert Mugabe’s 91st birthday. The Parks and Wildlife …
Land baron acquitted June 18, 2015 Former Harare North Housing Co-operatives Union chairperson Justice Zvandasara, who was convicted and slapped with a four-year jail term over a $4 million fraud involving the illegal sale of residential stands in Hatcliffe, was yesterday acquitted by the High Court. BY CHARLES LAITON Zvandasara had been convicted by Harare …
No joy for under-siege villagers June 18, 2015 in News GUTU resident magistrate Edwin Marecha yesterday ruled that a case where 22 villagers whose homes were last week razed by soldiers in a land ownership wrangle was not urgent. By Tatenda Chitagu Marecha postponed the case to July 8. The villagers, from Chomufuli Farm in Gutu, had …
Suspected CIO agent pulls out of farm June 18, 2015 NORMALCY has returned at a Goromonzi horticulture farm where production and export of flowers had stopped after a suspected Central Intelligence Organisation official, Timothy Muyambo, invaded the property. By Everson Mushava Mathew Hopgood, managing director of Little Flowers Farm, yesterday said operations resumed after Muyambo …
National hero’s son’s appeal struck off roll June 17, 2015 THE Supreme Court has struck off the roll an appeal by late national hero Leopold Takawira’s son, Samuel, where he was challenging his eviction from Earling Farm in Mvurwi. BY CHARLES LAITON The court ruled that Takawira had failed to comply with court rules. Deputy …
Soldiers go on rampage June 17, 2015 SOME soldiers allegedly burnt down homesteads of 22 Masvingo villagers and destroyed their crops last week in an operation to drive them away from a farm parcelled out during the land reform programme. By Tatenda Chitagu The villagers, from Chomufuli Farm in Gutu, yesterday had to seek the …
Court orders CIO official off flower farm June 17, 2015 A SUSPECTED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) official who early this month invaded a horticulture farm near Goromonzi, threatening the jobs of more than 150 workers, has been ordered to vacate the farm forthwith. BY CHARLES LAITON/PHYLLIS MBANJE Harare High Court judge Justice Nicholas Mathonsi ordered …
Bogus cops rob farmers, get away with car, 31 tobacco bales June 17, 2015 TWO cheeky Harare criminals who posed as police officers while robbing farmers of their lorry and 31 bales of tobacco on Monday were yesterday arraigned before magistrate Tendai Mahwe for initial remand. BY PAIDAMOYO MUZULU Godfrey Chirimanyemba (53) and Nevson Chitongo …
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Blitz nets 560 rustlers in 2 weeks June 4, 2015 Crime & Courts Crime ReporterMore than 560 people were arrested for stock theft and other related cases countrywide during “Operation Eradicate Cattle Rustlers Market Number 1 of 2015” conducted in the last two weeks. According to police, the operation was targeting cattle rustlers, their markets and …