Zimbabwe
Displaying 13 - 24 of 123
14 November 2022
BINGA, ZIMBABWE — When Esther Musaka was a little girl, a large lorry dropped her family off in the middle of the wilderness. It was the late 1950s, and construction of Kariba Dam was underway. As the newly formed Lake Kariba — to date, the world’s largest man-made reservoir — swallowed large…
31 October 2022
The trial of Siphosami Malunga, Zephaniah Dlamini and Charles Moyo begins on Tuesday at Tsholotsho Magistrates’ Court in Matebeleland North, Zimbabwe. The three are charged with illegally occupying Esidakeni farm, a property they bought in 2017 in Nyamandlovu, a few kilometres out of Bulawayo.…
10 October 2022
No final de 2021, um relatório do FIDA – Fundo Internacional para o Desenvolvimento da Agricultura, uma agência da ONU – Organização das Nações Unidas, divulgou preocupantes perspectivas para a produção agrícola na África. O texto alertava que a produção de alimentos básicos em oito países…
26 August 2022
Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka has said at least 260,000 people are on the waiting list to be allocated farms.Masuka was speaking during a field day in Kwekwe, before putting unproductive farmers on notice.The senior government official confirmed that at least 304 whites are occupying farms in…
6 June 2022
New agricultural methods to build climate change resilience for small-scale farmers will fall flat unless they are deeply respectful of indigenous knowledge systems, research has found.
Farmer and Tshwane University of Technology lecturer Brian Mandipaza researched the practice of conservation…
3 May 2022
HUNDREDS of villagers in the Chilonga area of Chiredzi district held a demonstration at Chief Chilonga’s homestead on Sunday, protesting the government’s continue manoeuvres to proceed with the setting up of a lucerne grass-farming project by a private company, Dendairy.
The villagers, who came in…
2 March 2022
The arrival of huge mining corporations has left thousands in Marange feeling like prisoners in their own ancestral land.
A tiny bridge which connects Masvingo road and the diamond mining fields via Odzi River. Credit: Farai Shawn Matiashe.
Trevor Kusena, 19, struggles to walk from his cottage to…
7 February 2022
Researching Land Reform in Zimbabwe is a new book compiling 20 articles the Zimbabwe Land Research team has published over the last 20 years. All the chapters bar one have appeared as peer-reviewed journal articles, with the material covering the period from early land invasions in 2000 to more…
26 January 2022
O Zimbabué confirmou hoje perante o Conselho de Direitos Humanos das Nações Unidas em Genebra ter concluído um acordo de compensação aos agricultores - locais e estrangeiros -- expropriados das suas terras há duas décadas
Nos termos do acordo, alcançado em julho de 2020, cerca de 3.500 agricultores…
24 January 2022
YET another Chinese miner, Monalof, is embroiled in a bitter wrangle with villagers in Binga who are resisting is bid to evict them from their ancestral lands.
The villagers were recently given a three months’ notice to vacate their homes and pave way for the establishment of a coal mine by Monalof…
7 January 2022
As companies extract wealth, villagers say they see little benefit and are instead exploited in quarries, live in homes damaged by blasts and are unable to farm polluted land
A truck carrying boulders of granite in Nyamakope village, Zimbabwe. Villagers in mining districts fear they will lose their…
7 January 2022
THE fate of 12 000 villagers in Chilonga, Chiredzi, has been effectively sealed after the High Court on Thursday ruled there was “finite wisdom” in gave President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration’s decision to evict them.
The controversial decision by government, which courted global outrage…