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Zimbabwe: Not all white former farmers to get land back

09-04-20 by Spotlight Zimbabwe Senior officials say land is ‘birthright’ of indigenous Zimbabweans amid compensation deal with dispossessed white farmers ANKARA- Zimbabwe said it would not return all the plots of land that the government had previously expropriated from white former farmers to their previous owners, local media reported Thursday. Dismissing recent media reports that a [...]

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Govt to restore Old Bulawayo

05 Sep, 2020  GOVERNMENT is working on a proper roadmap towards the restoration of King Lobengula’s original palace, Old Bulawayo, which was gutted by a veld fire 10 years ago as well as sprucing up King Mzilikazi’s grave. Old Bulawayo was built by King Lobengula in 1870 and was burnt down in 1881 in protest [...]

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More downs than ups at Mpilo cancer unit

05 Sep, 2020  IT’S been 41 months since Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo opened its cancer unit for members of the public in the southern region to access treatment for one of the leading causes of deaths in Zimbabwe. Sadly, the state-of-the-art radiotherapy machines in the unit have been down more than they have been [...]

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Coronavirus: Russian vaccine shows signs of immune response

5th September 2020 Russian scientists have published the first report on their coronavirus vaccine, saying early tests showed signs of an immune response. The report published by medical journal The Lancet said every participant developed antibodies to fight the virus and had no serious side effects. Russia licensed the vaccine for local use in August, [...]

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South African Delegation Expected In Harare On Tuesday

September 5, 2020 Bacela Mbete By Jane Mlambo| The South African delegation from the African National Congress is expected in Harare on Tuesday next week following resolution by the party to meet with Zanu PF leaders and other key political stakeholders in the country. This was revealed by South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) reporter Sophie [...]

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‘Ex-farmers would take financial compensation as opposed to govt land offer’

  4th September 2020 A WHITE former Zimbabwean commercial farmer says most landowners who were dispossessed of their farms during the country’s violent land grab programme post-2000 would prefer financial compensation as opposed to land offers by government. Government recently inked a US$3,5 deal with farmer representative groups in what would see the use of [...]

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Phillip Chiyangwa faces Zanu PF central committee ouster

4 Sep 2020 A COTERIE of Zanu PF activists is fighting for the removal of maverick businessman-cum-politician Phillip Chiyangwa from the party’s central committee. The real estate mogul, who was elevated to the central committee on the basis that he represented Makonde district, is now Zvimba South legislator. The decision to recall Chiyangwa was made [...]

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Pfugari’s son elbows sibling sister off late father’s estate

4th September 2020 HIGH Court judge, Siyabona Paul Masithu Thursday removed from the court roll, an application by late businessman Eddies Pfugari’s daughter, Henrietta in which she was seeking an order declaring her a 50% shareholder in her late father’s flagship company, E. Pfugari Properties (Private Limited). Henrietta is one of the late property mogul’s [...]

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