Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
8 farm workers jailed for public violence November 18, 2014 EIGHT former farm workers at Whiteside Farm in Bromley were last week slapped with a four-year effective jail term each for violently resisting the takeover of the property by indigenous farmer Samson Chawuruka. CHARLES LAITON SENIOR COURT REPORTER Provincial magistrate Milton Serima had initially slapped …
Ex-minister to testify in land case November 3, 2014 Crime & Courts Herbert Murerwa Court ReporterTwenty-nine Beatrice families accused of occupying a farm owned by former Harare regional magistrate Mr Peter Mufunda, intend to call former Minister of Lands and Resettlement Dr Herbert Murerwa as their defence witness. They also indicated the intention to call Harare …
Only lands minister can distribute land’ The Constitutional Court has ruled that only the Minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement has legal authority to allocate acquired land to individuals and not any other member of the Executive. A five-member constitutional bench made the ruling in a land dispute case brought to the Supreme Court in …
Lands ministry official faces bribery charge October 10, 2014 A MINISTRY of Lands and Rural Resettlement official based in Marondera yesterday appeared in court facing allegations of criminal abuse of office after allegedly soliciting a $7 000 bribe from a desperate land seeker. PHILLIP CHIDAVAENZI SENIOR REPORTER Ephraim Chiadzwa (36), of Dombotombo, who was employed …
Trio terrorises white farmers 5 October 2014 Debra Matabvu Sunday Mail Reporter THREE criminals who terrorised white commercial farmers in parts of the country were last week each sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for assaulting and robbing a Banket farmer and his wife. The trio is also being charged with the murder …
Chief’s children jailed in land row September 23, 2014 Crime & Courts jailGeorge Maponga in Masvingo Five sons of Chief Chikwanda of Masvingo East have been jailed for a combined 24 years by a regional magistrate for severely assaulting a man they accused of encroaching into their father’s area of jurisdiction. The brothers – Alois …
Beatrice land row sucks in Chombo Lovemore Meya Court Reporter Twenty-nine Beatrice families accused of occupying Subdivision 1 of Breamer Farm reportedly owned by former Harare regional magistrate Mr Peter Mufunda want Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Dr Ignatius Chombo to testify on their behalf. Mr Mufunda is now working as a …
PRESS STATEMENT David Conolly, Centenary Farm, Zimbabwe 16 September 2014 Zimbabwe: further contempt of court by senior civil servant, Dr Ray Ndhlukula on Centenary farm, Figtree At 11:45am on Thursday, 11 September 2014, two vehicles drove up the road to my homestead on Centenary Farm. They left 7 people on the …
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$45m govt cash seized JOHN KACHEMBERE • 15 SEPTEMBER 2014 5:42PM HARARE – About $45 million in diamond revenue was on Friday seized by a South African company in Belgium after it had been granted an interim order against President Robert Mugabe’s cash-strapped government over a cancelled platinum concession, the Daily News can reveal. This comes after …
29 families illegally occupy magistrate’s farm September 8 2014 Herald Court reporter At least 29 families are in a land dispute with former Harare regional magistrate Mr Peter Mafunda after they unlawfully occupied his Subdivision 1 of Braemar farm. Brighton Gumbire and 28 others of Subdivision 1, Braemar farm Beatrice denied contravening section …