Posted by ZDN on April 22, 2010
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"We will kill you after the World Cup," promises Zanu-PF district Chairman Mike Chiwodza, backed by a gang of thugs gripping machetes and barbed-wire clubs. Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF officials are once more terrorising villagers in Mashonaland East, using the FIFA World Cup of Soccer closing ceremony as a deadline for death.
On the 8th and 9th April, 2010 Zanu-PF thugs led ...
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Posted by ZDN on April 5, 2010
Saturday, 03 April 2010 19:00
THE Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) is opposed to the visit by ANC Youth League President, Julius Malema to Zimbabwe to meet Zanu PF officials and address rallies organised by Zanu PF. The visit by Malema is unacceptable, offensive, inciteful and politically misplaced considering that President Jacob Zuma is the mediator of the endless talks in Zimbabwe w...
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Posted by ZDN on March 30, 2010
The attachment of these properties is something that is hugely symbolic. After ten years of the annihilation of property rights in Zimbabwe where no one has been compensated, the long arm of the law is finally reaching out to make itself felt.
Of course the attachment of four Zimbabwe Government properties is a drop in the ocean compared to the attachment of the thousands of once productive a...
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Posted by ZDN on March 30, 2010
The attachment of properties belonging to the Zimbabwe government by the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria is an act of last resort by Afri-forum acting on behalf of Zimbabwe Farmers, who have exhausted all available channels of engaging the Zimbabwe government to reach a mutually amicable solution to the land saga.
It is an indictment on a government that has lost its constitution place in the pr...
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Posted by ZDN on February 1, 2010
Zimbabwe Democracy Now condemns the xenophobic attitudes and attacks against Zimbabwean refugees, and implores the local government to take further constructive action in order to find solutions for the current problems.
We salute PASSOP and other organisations that are providing much needed assistance and support to the Zimbabweans in De Doorns.
We salute the national government’s efforts...
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Posted by ZDN on February 1, 2010
The Commercial Farmers’ Union (CFU) of Zimbabwe condemns the arrest of two more commercial farmers from the Chipinge district in the eastern highlands, south of Mutare, and the conviction of four others for refusing to leave their properties.
On Tuesday, Mutare Magistrate Samuel Zuze found the four farmers, Algernon Taffs (Chiriga Estates), Z.F. Joubert (Stilfontein of Umzila), Mike Jahme (Si...
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Posted by ZDN on January 21, 2010
Press Release - 20 January 2010
ACTION Support Centre, Solidarity and Transformation Agenda Desk, condemns Pastor Frank Henke’s xenophobic comments released on page 4 of the Cape Argus on 18 January 2010 and the Independent Online.
His words: “We will braai them and turn them into KFC. There’s no place for them,” are not only hateful and hurting to the people of Zimbabwe, including m...
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Posted by ZDN on December 7, 2009
PRESS STATEMENT
After months of stress and the heart-ache of trying to load a lifetime’s work onto the back of dusty trucks, Mrs Hester Theron (79), a commercial farmer from the Beatrice district of Zimbabwe, has been given a glimmer of hope.
On November 6, a Harare magistrate gave Mrs Theron a month to vacate her dairy farm, where she has lived for the past 50 years, or face a prison sent...
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Posted by ZDN on November 26, 2009
AfriForum Media Statement - 26 November 2009
The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria made an order in terms of which the Government of South Africa undertakes to respect and honour the judgments by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal in favour of commercial farmers in Zimbabwe, and to uphold the rights and remedies of victims of Zimbabwe’s unlawful land expropriation e...
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Posted by ZDN on November 25, 2009
EX PARTE: COMMERCIAL FARMERS UNION
IN RE: PROPOSED BILATERAL INVESTMENT PROMOTION AND PROTECTION AGREEMENT BETWEEN ZIMBABWE AND SOUTH AFRICA
OPINION
J.J. GAUNTLETT SC
F.B. PELSER
Chambers
Cape Town
21 November 2009
A. INTRODUCTION
1. Our Consultant is the Commercial Farmers Union.
2. We have been asked to consider urgently the proposed conclusion of a Bilateral Investment Promotion...
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