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Zimbabwean unions demand pro-worker trade policies
22-May-2023 IndustriAll
At the industrialization policy conference in Harare, trade unions discuss whether trade and industrialization are a panacea to Zimbabwe’s economic woes. They also identified the role unions play in policy making to ensure that workers and communities benefit from trade.
Zim finalises tariff offer under AfCFTA
23-Apr-2022 The Chronicle
ZIMBABWE is finalising its tariff offer under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and hopes to reap huge trade benefits under the agreement.
Zim/UAE deal now in force
7-Mar-2022 The Herald
The agreement between Zimbabwe and the United Arab Emirates on promotion and protection of investments has come into force.
China Is the biggest winner from Africa’s new free trade bloc
28-Aug-2021 Foreign Policy
AfCFTA was supposed to usher in a new era of continental trade and economic growth—but Beijing’s not letting that happen.
White farmer enlists US federal court in enforcing US$277m arbitral award against Zimbabwe
28-Jul-2021 Bulawayo
Bernhard von Pezold and his family have enlisted the help of a US federal court in Washington DC in enforcing a US$277 million arbitral award against Zimbabwe.
Zim, Malawi revise bilateral trade agreement
19-Jul-2021 All Africa
Zimbabwe and Malawi are engaged in talks to revise their Bilateral Trade Agreement to ensure its provisions speak to a modern-day investor and assist in addressing pressing development needs of the two countries.
AfCFTA to inspire rebound: Govt
20-Jun-2021 Zimbabwe Independent
Zimbabwean private sector has concerns that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) would knock them out of business as high quality, competitively-priced products flood the domestic space.
Dairibord cautious of AfCFTA
12-May-2021 Newsday
DAIRIBORD Holdings Limited has said although the African Continental Free Trade Area could unlock a string of spinoffs, significant threats to intra-African trade would also arise.
Zim, UK launch trade deal
7-Nov-2020 The Herald
The basket is dominated by produce such as peas, avocadoes, oranges, berries, flowers, plums, and tea and all these are expected to register exponential growth on the back of this launched partnership.
Zimbabwe ratifies EPA with UK
15-Oct-2020 Journal du Cameroun
Zimbabwe has ratified an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the United Kingdom in a deal expected to promote reciprocal trade concessions between Harare and London.
Zimbabwe is offering land back to BIPPAs and black farmers. Betrayal or the law? Here are the facts
2-Sep-2020 The Zimbabwe Mail
There are only two types of farmers that can be compensated for both land and improvements on farms. On of them is farmers whose land was protected by Bilateral Investment Protection and Promotion Agreements.
Zimbabwe to pay white farmers $3.5 billion over Mugabe land reforms
5-Aug-2020 The East African
Some of the dispossessed farmers were from countries such as Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland whose properties were protected by investment treaties between Harare and the Western countries.
Zimbabwe offers land as compensation for 800 seized farms
13-Mar-2020 Reuters
The dispossessed farmers covered in the land compensation scheme are citizens of countries that have bilateral investment agreements with Zimbabwe.
Cabinet approves ratification of Comesa-EAC-Sadc free trade
11-Dec-2019 ZBC
Cabinet in Zimbabwe has approved the ratification of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA).
Zim not yet ready for full AfCFTA
13-Feb-2019 The Herald
Zimbabwe should ramp up value addition and beneficiation of its products beforehand, says official.
Land reform blow: Zimbabwe must pay foreign investor US$195m; World Bank unit dismisses Harare’s bid to annul award
28-Nov-2018 Pazimbabwe
The ICSID has rejected Zimbabwe’s application to annul an US$195 million award to a German family whose property was expropriated under the controversial land reform programme.
Govt, business consult on Africawide FTA
13-Oct-2018 NewsDay
Government has opened consultations with industry on rules of origin (RoO) for the ambitious African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) aimed at promoting duty-free flow of goods and services originating in the bloc.
Expropriation without compensation? Ask the British.
4-Aug-2018 Africa is a country
Zimbabwe is still seeking to have annulled two Awards issued by a tribunal of the ICSID. The disputes concern the government’s expropriation of timber plantations which were first established by Rhodes’ BSAC.
One hundred years of expropriation without compensation
4-Aug-2018 Expropriate
On 29 July 1918, the British judiciary proffered the Empire’s most expressly and egregiously racist justification for the land dispossession of indigenous peoples. Today, an ICSID tribunal continues that mission. No matter which way Zimbabwean’s turn at the polls, they’re still paying for their invasion and occupation by Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa company...
Multi-million dollar payment hangs over Zimbabwe
15-Sep-2017 ALB
Zimbabwe is in breach of two arbitral awards totalling USD 240 million, after it missed a deadline to pay investors whose land was seized as part of the government’s racially motivated land reforms.