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Mount Pleasant Land Saga: Residents Decry Failed System
Marshall Bwanya
Harare - The long-standing Mount Pleasant Heights Phase 2 land scandal has taken a new twist as land developer Anthony Taengwa Parehwa negotiates out-of-court settlements with some property…
Self-imposed headman turns land baron, sells 70% of village
Pauline Chateuka
Seke—Takesure Tichana, a self-appointed village head, has been accused of facilitating illegal communal land sales in his village located in Ward 6, Chirimamhunga of rural Seke.
As a result, reports indicate, 70…
Lifeline for Kariba fishmongers battered by effects of drought
Elvis Dumba
THE Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has reduced the minimum allowable fishing depth in Lake Kariba from 20 to 17 metres to alleviate the plight of fishmongers who were struggling to survive…
Climate change induced droughts fuel exodus of young people in Matabeleland South
Lulu Brenda Harris
Lwazi Ndebele says she decided to join the great trek to South Africa after her village located along Zimbabwe’s border with Botswana experienced two years of successive droughts and putting food on the…
Exposed: Inside Manyame shady land deals . . . Zanu PF MP implicated . . . villagers resist land…
Pauline Chateuka
A PROMINENT ruling Zanu PF party lawmaker has been implicated in disputed plot allocations which have exposed the involvement of the Manyame Rural District Council (MRDC) in questionable land deals.
MRDC jurisdiction…
Double allocations scam rocks Hopley
Thando Khumalo
Dreams of home ownership have turned into a nightmare for nearly 50 Hopley residents, who now face the unsettling reality of potential eviction due to alleged double allocation of the stands they purchased in the area.
The…
Troubled Nyaminyami: Violent competition, corruption threaten fishing on Lake Kariba
Elvis Dumba
Kariba— Piracy, internecine wars over fishing space and widespread corruption involving parks officials have become a daily occurrence on Lake Kariba whose water levels have been fast receding over the years due to climate…
US ploughs over US$30m into landmine clearance in Zimbabwe
Kelvin Wilson Kasiwulaya
Gweru —The noise has somewhat died down, but the problem is still there, though far smaller than three decades or so ago.
In the 1980s and 1990s in particular, hardly a day would pass without news of people or…
Shocking details emerge as opposition, council officials and Zanu PF loot Harare City Council
Moses Matenga
Harare—The City of Harare lost millions of dollars to a network of corrupt officials and politically connected cartels that have virtually taken over its cash-cow, Rufaro Marketing, investigations show.
Rufaro…
Perpetual outcasts: The plight of Bulawayo ‘villages’ reeling from neglect
Senzeni Ncube
Bulawayo--Reginald Mkhosana and his subjects from St Peters village on the outskirts of Bulawayo are classified as urbanites in terms of Zimbabwe’s political boundaries, but their living conditions undoubtedly mirror the…