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Zanu-PF skeletons tumble in Chitungwiza demolitions
LEAKED letters addressed to Chitungwiza Town Council bosses have exposed the government's involvement in the demolition of homes and other illegal structures in Harare and the dormitory town with the ...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:34hrs | 1642 | by Staff reporter
Army-linked Anjin grabs richest diamond claim
AN army-linked miner, Anjin Investments (Pvt) Ltd, grabbed the most lucrative diamond claim in Marange from a firm owned by the government after being relicensed under unclear circumstances, it has em...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 1108 | by Kenneth Matimaire
Ex-Zipra cadre threatened with eviction from Castle Arms
AN ex-Zipra cadre, Better Tshuma, has claimed that Edson Ncube, the caretaker of Castle Arms Motel in Bulawayo which is owned by ex-Zipra liberation fighters, has threatened to evict him for receiving...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:38hrs | 643 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to demolish illegal upmarket homes, lodges in Victoria Falls
The government is reportedly hunting for land barons who allegedly illegally parcelled communal land outside the world-class resort city amid indications more than 100 "illegal executive settlers" wil...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:26hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2467 | by Samantha Power
Chamisa begs Twitter to ban Museveni
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa has pleaded with Twitter to ban Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni from its platform.Twitter permanently suspended US President Donald...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 09:56hrs | 3826 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers finally listed among essential services
Lawyers have been separately listed among essential services and can travel to and attend any criminal or civil court hearing involving a client and can travel and meet clients and others when this is...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe court business suspended
Chief Justice Luke Malaba has suspended all regular court operations and scaled back other courthouse activities, with the Sheriff and Messenger of Court ordered to stop evictions and executions, foll...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 23:01hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe yet to taste independence
THE Zanu-PF-led government has continued to violate human rights. Its crackdown on human rights and opposition activists, including the continued eviction of people from urban and rural settlements us...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:35hrs | 422 | by Viola
ZBC evicts former employees
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) evicted its former employees from company accommodation at flats in the Avenues area of Harare on Christmas Day.At least four families, including tw...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1567 | by Staff reporter
Provincial mining director sucked into mine wrangle
A nasty gold mine ownership wrangle with all the ingredients of a dramatic legal battle sucking in a provincial mining director is brewing in Inyathi after a mining company seized a villager's farm wi...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:13hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Church seeks eviction order against pastor
UNITED Pentecostal Church International (UPCI) has approached the High Court seeking an eviction order against its excommunicated pastor who is allegedly refusing to vacate the church house. R...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 05:07hrs | 1762 | by Staff reporter
Mafume must stop shifting blame
Since his election as the Mayor of Harare in September this year, MDC Alliance Ward 17 Councillor, Jacob Mafume, has not done anything to resolve Harare's woes except to shift blame on central Governm...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:48hrs | 331 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Demolitions to continue, says govt
GOVERNMENT yesterday said demolitions of illegal settlements will continue and told residents that have received eviction notices from councils to seek alternative shelter.Addressing a press c...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 07:06hrs | 1321 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa capitalises on Chamisa own goal, offers shelter for Budiriro victims
GOVERNMENT has distanced itself from recent demolitions on some 190 homes in Harare's Budiriro high density suburb and has gone on to offer temporary shelter to victims who were left in the open....Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1310 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Cabinet halts rainy season demolitions
No more houses will be demolished during the rainy season after Harare City Council was barred by the Government from effecting court orders allowing demolitions of illegally-built houses until the se...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 06:39hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's MDC council mistimed Budiriro demolitions'
The recent Budiriro demolitions carried out by Harare City Council workers acting under a court order almost two years old were legal, but had nothing to do with the Government. Harare Provinc...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:20hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks eviction of Heany Junction Farm settlers
MORE than 100 families occupying Heany Junction Farm in Umguza district, Matabeleland North got a reprieve after the High Court temporarily blocked the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) from evicting them ...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:54hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Harare residents claim Zanu-PF betrayal after homes destroyed
RAIN-SOAKED, angry residents whose houses were demolished Tuesday by authorities, believe that the Harare City Council did not have any powers to act like that without government approval.Some...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Allocate resources at district level, says Maguwu
HUMAN rights defender Farai Maguwu has blasted the centralised government system in the country saying that it was becoming a breeding ground for corruption, which also hinders rural development....Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:36hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Council bleeding city of millions
MDC-Alliance Harare councillors and the city's management have been bleeding council of millions of dollars over the years in a property lease scam caused by the shambolic state of the council revenue...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 05:56hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Woman hits landlord over eviction
A-40-YEAR-OLD woman from Mazowe has been arrested for hitting her landlord with a log on the head after he had given her notice to vacate his premises over allegations of her unbecoming behaviour....Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 20:41hrs | 953 | by Staff reporter
Businesswoman under pressure to perform as she angles a final push
On signing an agreement with a prodigal Ezekiel Mtapuri who is under curatorship, in 2014, Theresa Ndambakuwa started to flag the Deed of Agreement she signed with Ezekiel Mtapuri to prospective land ...Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1854 | by Lot Zuvanyika
Top lawyer sued over botched house deal
SENIOR Harare lawyer Charles Chinyama has been dragged to court by a woman, who alleges that he fraudulently transferred the title to her US$180 000 Eastlea house into his name over a US$33 000 debt....Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:10hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
High Court bars new museum project construction
HIGH Court judge Justice Felistas Chatukuta has ruled in favour of Kubatana Arts and Craft Centre Co-operative and barred the Institute of African Knowledge from constructing a museum at the co-operat...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:19hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
23 evicted from Karoi farm, dumped in the open
A POLICE officer was injured after he was pelted with stones in running battles with 23 resettled farmers resisting eviction from Pumula Farm in Karoi, Mashonaland West province.Eight settlers...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:18hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
High Court bars ex-minister from evicting white farmer
FORMER Foreign Affairs deputy minister Edgar Mbwembwe has been ordered by the High Court to stop evicting a white farmer, Simon Ross Worsley-Worswick, after he was declared the rightful owner and occu...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:44hrs | 1662 | by Staff reporter
Sheriff accused of dereliction of duty
THE Deputy Sheriff of Bulawayo Nathaniel Bhunu has been accused by the Anglican Province of Central Africa Church Diocese of Matabeleland of abandoning the eviction of illegal settlers at Cyrene Farm ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:35hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa wants farmers evicted
FLAMBOYANT Harare businessman Philip Chiyangwa has approached the Supreme Court appealing against a High Court decision barring him from evicting 20 farmers occupying his Old Citrus Farm in Chinhoyi. ...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:32hrs | 4018 | by Staff reporter
More families evicted from Cyrene Farm
THE Messenger of Court, assisted by the police last week evicted 12 families from Cyrene Farm in Figtree which is owned by the Anglican Province of Central Africa Church in the Diocese of Matabeleland...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 1043 | by Staff reporter
Workers arrested for refusing $8 wages
Farm Workers were taken by 2 ZRP trucks at a farm in Ward 34 in Mazowe after a salary dispute with the farm owner. The Tevitdale farmworkers were bundled into police trucks after a wage dispute with t...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 12:31hrs | 4395 | by Nicholas Ncube
Kereke battles to occupy Mazoe farm
JAILED rapist Munyaradzi Kereke is fighting to have his family occupy a Mazoe farm he bought in August while in prison after illegal occupants who have lived there since 2002 refused to vacate the pro...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 19:24hrs | 1216 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers call for Chief Justice Malaba probe
Chief Justice Luke Malaba brought "disgrace" to the bench after sitting in an appeal court where his judgement was being challenged, lawyers have said.The incident, back in 2016, has been desc...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1841 | by Staff reporter
Khupe regains Harvest House control
MDC youths aligned to secretary general Douglas Mwonzora yesterday kicked out their colleagues led by Harare province chairperson Paul Gorekore from Harvest House. Gorekore took over control o...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | 5871 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa's farm ownership exposed after 'illegal settlers' evictions
THE eviction this week of dozens of families that had settled on Old Citrus Farm in Chinhoyi, controversially owned by property mogul Phillip Chiyangwa, has exposed the local municipality's complicity...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:56hrs | 3467 | by Staff reporter
Farmer challenges Kasukuwere eviction order
A MAZOWE farmer, who lost his piece of land to former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere, has approached the court seeking to reverse the eviction order. In an application through his lawyers...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:48hrs | 1150 | by Staff reporter
'Get your rent from Mnangagwa,' detained landlord told at police station
Glenview police station shocked Zimbabweans when they detained a 65-year-old widow accusing her of demanding rent from a tenant. Mrs Editor Mavaza was detained by Glenview police for demanding...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 08:16hrs | 5890 | by The Correspondent
Reprieve for Chitungwiza residents as municipality stops demolitionsafter lawyers intervention
CHITUNGWIZA Municipality on Sunday resolved to stop the demolition of some residents' houses after Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) threatened to sue the local authority for violating people's...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1456 | by Stephen Jakes
We remain the land: The endless land wars of Chipinge
To many Zimbabweans, the forecast that there will be normal to above normal rains in 2020-21 farming is sweet news. However, this does not apply to many people in Chipinge.While others are pre...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 19:10hrs | 548 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
Zanu-PF land invaders attack police officers
SUSPECTED rowdy Zanu-PF land invaders at a farm in Bromley, 48km southeast of Harare, on Monday attacked police officers deployed to evict them to pave way for the farm owner.One of the police...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:07hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
Shangaan leaders dare govt on evictions
DISGRUNTLED Shangaan community leaders in Chiredzi have challenged government to a duel if it insists on moving them from their ancestral land.Over 1 538 families in Chiredzi South and East ar...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:02hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
A country in 'crisis' cannot guarantee access to land
The term "crisis" is the latest buzzword in Zimbabwe meriting the attention of scholarly researches to establish if it is being used in the proper context. Opposition political parties are in overdriv...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | 178 | by Pardon Muzavazi
Chamisa, Khupe youths violently clash over Kwekwe offices
YOUTHS aligned to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his political rival in MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe Saturday had violent clashes over the control of the party's offices in Kwekwe....Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 18:31hrs | 1280 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa blasts ZACC, SACU
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa Wednesday urged Parliament to act on a land scandal in Aspindale, Harare involving businessman Billy Rautenbach and the state as the anti-corruption bodies were failing to prote...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1742 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo's recall letter causes confusion in Bulawayo council
THE MDC Alliance says recalled Bulawayo Ward 24 councillor, Arnold Batirai Dube will not vacate office until the Minister of Local Government July Moyo clarifies whom he wrote recalling him in his let...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 05:32hrs | 3302 | by Staff reporter
Villagers resist eviction for city expansion
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally and Masvingo district development co-ordinator (DCC) Ray Hove was on Saturday reportedly booed by over 300 resettled farmers who refused to be forcibly evicted from...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:10hrs | 2561 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers vote with their feet
HUNDREDS of teachers are leaving the country or preparing to do so to escape worsening economic problems amid deteriorating working conditions, a new report says.Over the past couple of weeks,...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:56hrs | 637 | by Staff reporter
Storm over farm invasion
A RUWA commercial farmer lost his farm on Friday after a government official evicted him with the help of the police.Martin Grobler, whose Protea Valley Farm is situated about 40km east of Har...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1539 | by Staff reporter
Settlers seek eviction of white farmer
OVER 30 settlers at Umvutcha Farm in Umguza, who were resettled by the government in 2008 before their occupation was later reversed through the courts in 2009, have filed for the eviction of the whit...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1560 | by Stff reporter
War vets face eviction
SEVERAL war veterans resettled at Umvutcha Farm in Umguza, just outside Bulawayo, have been served with eviction notices after the son-inlaw of former owner Alister Micheal Fletcher successfully chall...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:15hrs | 1693 | by Staff reporter
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