MINING & RETAIL

Zimbabwe's gold rush is combined with a power grab

IN THE MAZOWE river valley, 50km north of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, the gold rush is hard to miss. Hillsides have been hewed by excavators that scoop out ore as if it were gelato from a tub.&n...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 April 2026

POLITICS

Colonial masters sound alarm over Zimbabwe 'power grab'

A heated debate erupted in the House of Lords on Wednesday as peers criticised proposed constitutional amendments in Zimbabwe, warning they could entrench President Emmerson Mnangagwa's hold on power ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 April 2026

POLITICS

Rautenbach's govt backed to grab Springs farm resisted

War veterans farming at Springs Farm have fiercely opposed government attempts to hand over their land to businessman Billy Rautenbach, accusing the government of attempting to bypass court rulings a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 November 2025

POLITICS

Matobo rocked by corrupt and dubious land grab

Chief Masuku of Matobo District has ordered an immediate suspension of the ongoing land redistribution exercise at Fox Farm in Matabeleland South, following mounting allegations of corruption, bribery...

By Staff reporyter | Published: 30 October 2025

POLITICS

CIO operative in Matobo land grab storm

Villagers at FOX Farm in Matobo, Matabeleland South, are resisting what they describe as a corrupt attempt by senior officials to seize their land and re-allocate it to outsiders from outside the prov...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 October 2025

POLITICS

Ex-Zanu PF youth leader in court over land grab

Former Zanu PF youth leader Jimu Kunaka and his co-accused, Cuthbert Molisen Finiyasi, will spend the night in Harare Remand Prison after a magistrate deferred their bail application to tomorrow.Kunak...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 September 2025

POLITICS

Zanu-PF councillor grabs farm, jailed

A Zanu-PF councillor in Bulawayo has spent nearly a month behind bars after defying a series of court orders to vacate a disputed farmhouse in Umguza district, Matabeleland North.Ward 1 councillor Jo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 August 2025

POLITICS

Zanu-PF bigwigs accused of grabbing airport land

The ruling Zanu-PF party and senior government officials are allegedly selling land earmarked for the expansion of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport to unsuspecting individuals.President...

By Staff reporter | Published: 21 August 2025

POLITICS

Marondera council in shady land grab

A prime 468-hectare farm on the outskirts of Marondera has become the center of a bitter dispute after top municipal officials allegedly seized the property without following due process, armed with a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 August 2025

POLITICS

Garwe under fire for alleged land grab benefiting Mnangagwa ally

Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe is once again embroiled in a controversial land seizure scandal, this time accused of stripping residential stands from nearly 100 former Members of Parliament (...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 May 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

White and black farmers still bear the scars of Zimbabwe's land grabs

Guy Watson-Smith felt hurt and betrayed when his 5,000-hectare (12,355-acre) farm in Beatrice, in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East province, was violently invaded by three armed men in the early 2000s.The ...

By Farai Matiashe, Al Jazeera | Published: 24 April 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Minister 'unleashes' Zanu-PF youths, police to grab mine

Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs minister Appolonia Munzverengi is being accused of using her political muscle to grab a mining claim owned by Mekasi Engineering.The company claim that the minister...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Chiwenga urges businesses to grab Belarus export opportunities

VICE President Dr Constantino Chiwenga yesterday called on Zimbabwean businesses to grab investment and export opportunities presented by Belarus, which is exhibiting for the first time at the Zimbabw...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 April 2019

POLITICS

Chipanga sued for grabbing farmer's property

One of former Wakefield Estate owners, Andrew Dawson, has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to prohibit former Zanu-PF youth leader Kudzanayi Chipanga from taking over his assets.Dawson and C...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 September 2018

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Time Bank fights land grab

TIME Bank shareholders have filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking suspension of earlier court judgments in a case which went in favour of a party claiming to have been allocate...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 June 2018

POLITICS

'Mnangagwa grabs Marry Chiwenga's project'

FIRST Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa has reportedly grabbed Mushamukadzi Foundation, a charitable organisation founded by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's wife, Marry, to avoid being overshadowed in her ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 May 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa speaks on power grab

MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa, has spoken at the Oxford Union about his contentious rise to the MDC presidency.The 40-year-old opposition leader spoke to students about the recent...

By Staff reporter | Published: 09 May 2018

POLITICS

Chiwenga's wife denies 'farm grab' report

VICE President Constantino Chiwenga's wife, Mrs Mary Chiwenga, has dismissed as false media reports that she grabbed a 300-hectare Arda Seeds Farm along Domboshawa Road.Through her lawyer, Mr Wilson T...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 April 2018

POLITICS

Kazembe Kazembe grabs school farm

Youths, Sports, Arts and Recreation minister Kazembe Kazembe has taken control of a 1 350-hectare farm belonging to Blackforsly College of Agriculture, situated approximately 60 kilometres north west ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

'Police grabbed army mines Mafia style'

DEFENCE secretary Martin Rushwaya yesterday claimed the Zimbabwe Defence Forces' diamond mining claims in Chiadzwa were grabbed by police in a "Mafia style" after the government ordered all miners to ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 20 April 2018

POLITICS

Chiwenga's wife grabs Arda farm

IN a move which flies in the face of government's claims of a new dispensation, Vice-President and former army commander retired General Constantino Chiwenga's wife Mary recently grabbed the 300-hecta...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 April 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa power grab forces Lovemore Moyo out

MDC-T national chairman Mr Lovemore Moyo yesterday quit both his position and the party citing, among other issues, what he called the unconstitutional power grab by leader Mr Nelson Chamisa. Mr Moyo,...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 March 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

$1m up for grabs in Magaya talent show

PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries founder, Walter Magaya and his company Planet Africa have put up $1 million for the top prize in a new talent search show.The auditions for the inaug...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 March 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zesa $14m mall space up for grabs

The owners of the recently completed $14 million Zesa Megawatt Mall in Gweru are seeking tenants to occupy the shopping mall.The state-of-the-art mall, which was built by Zesa Electricity Industry Pe...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 February 2018

POLITICS

Zuma in court over Zimbabwe land grabs

South Africa President Jacob Zuma will tomorrow appear in the High Court in Pretoria for his role in the closure of Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal after it ruled in favour of 7...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 February 2018
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