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June 10, 2014

Minister grabs Joshua Nkomo’s land

Controversial Masvingo provincial minister, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, is at it again — this time allegedly working in cahoots with a private company in expropriating land at the Chingwizi transit camp owned by the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo.

Kasukuwere says farm invasions to stop

A ZANU PF minister says there will be no more seizures of foreign-owned properties as the effects of the party’s ruinous land grab policy continue to bite. Environment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere said this at an event to mark $17.7 million worth of funding for the country, from the European Union (EU) on Monday.

Zimbo rapist jailed in UK for terrifying attack

A “devil” rapist who attacked his victim in front of her child has been handed an 18-year year sentence. Smirking Tafadzwa Rungo, originally from Zimbabwe but now based in Ashford, carried out his brutal assault while talking about Satan and the Devil.

Why we had to take our land: Chinyoka

There are those that differ with me on whether or not we still need to debate the question of why we had to take our land back. Those that differ with me on this issue are, to use the colloquial, simply wrong.

Cults masquerading as political parties

I read about the way Americans came up with a law on corporate governance called the Sarbanese-Oxley Act and wished if something like that could happen in Africa. I am not interested in the law itself, but in the way in which two individuals from two different political persuasions introduced Bills that eventually led to the landmark eponymous law.