Zacc probes Lands ministry

Zacc probes Lands ministry – NewsDay Zimbabwe By Newsday 29/10/2021 BY NQOBANI NDLOVU THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has opened investigations into the Lands and Agriculture ministry where several millions of United States dollars meant for the purchase of machinery and equipment could not be accounted for. The graft allegations arose soon after the Public …

High Court reserves judgment in Chilonga villagers case

High Court reserves judgment in Chilonga villagers case – NewsDay Zimbabwe 13/10/2021 BY ARNOLD FANDISO HIGH Court judges yesterday reserved judgment on an application by Chilonga villagers who were challenging provisions of the Communal Lands Act arguing that it did not respect African traditional values with regards to land ownership. The application was heard by …

Vingirai’s bid to evict farmers flops

Vingirai’s bid to evict farmers flops   The Herald 5/10/2021 Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter VETERAN banker Nicholas Vingirai’s bid to evict farmers settled at a farm in Banket has hit a snag after the High Court ordered him to vacate the farm and stop interfering with the farmers’ activities. The farmers — Bryne Chipembe, Morgan Ncube, John …

Bona, hubby challenge farm downsizing

Bona, hubby challenge farm downsizing – NewsDay Zimbabwe 17/6/2021 BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE THE late former President Robert Mugabe’s daughter Bona and her husband Simbarashe Mutsahuni have approached the High Court challenging the Statutory Instrument (SI) 41 of 2020 published to reduce their 1 800-hectare Mazowe farm. The couple cited Lands minister Anxious Masuka and Attorney-General …

Matanga, Sibanda sued for land grab

Matanga, Sibanda sued for land grab By Newsday.Co.Zw – April 13, 2021 BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Phillip Valerio Sibanda have been taken to court for grabbing a Mazowe farm protected under the Bilateral Investments Protection and Promotion Agreement (BIPPA). Andreas Peter and Shaun Livaditakis claimed in their court application …

Time Bank wins land case

Time Bank wins land case  Herald 10/12/2020   Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter TIME Bank Investment Corporation (TBIC) has won a High Court case in which a former executive of its subsidiary, Mr Oniyas Gumbo, claimed to be a director of and shareholder in the group’s real estate unit, Watermount Estates Private Limited. High Court …

Supreme Court stops eviction of minor children

Supreme Court stops eviction of minor children Herald 31/8/2020   Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter The constitutional right of children to shelter can be enforced through the courts, the Supreme Court has ruled, when it stopped a set of evictions that would leave children homeless and set the High Court a six-tier inquiry to follow …

US$200m RBZ scam: Judge’s divorce ruling opens can of worms

US$200m RBZ scam: Judge’s divorce ruling opens can of worms | | Masvingo Mirror RASHID SAIDI 28/7/2020 Matthew Takaona Masvingo – A little known divorce case presided over by Justice Garainesu Mawadze in 2012 has become a source of evidence to support allegations of corruption in the US$200 m Reserve Bank Farm Mechanisation Programme. The almost …

Police foil US$8,5m fuel scam

Police foil US$8,5m fuel scam 7/7/2020 NewsDay POLICE have claimed that they recently foiled a 10 million-litre fuel heist from PetroTrade by a deputy director in the District Development Fund (DDF) and his accomplices. BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE DDF deputy director, (plant and equipment Mukwati Building) Tonongei Machingura (57) at the weekend appeared at Harare Magistrates’ …