January

• The Anti-Personnel Mines (Prohibition) Act 2000” is incorporated into Zimbabwe’s domestic law.
• One person is murdered in political violence in January 2001.
• 1 January - Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporter Bernard Gara is murdered in Bikita West.
• 13–14 January - By-elections held in Bikita West are won by Zanu PF.
• 16 January - Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila is assassinated and given medical treatment in Harare
  Harare
  Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...
  
  .
• 26 January - 133 farms are listed for compulsory acquisition by government.
• 28 January - Z$100 million printing presses of the Daily News
  Daily News (Harare)
  The Daily News was a Zimbabwean independent newspaper published in Harare. Its presses were bombed and it was banned in 2003.-History:The Daily News was first launched on July 31, 1999, and controversially banned in defiance of a court ruling in 2003. Its founder, Geoffrey Nyarota, was a journalist...
  
   are bombed.

February

• One person is murdered in political violence in February 2001.
• 3 February - Riot police break up a peaceful demonstration by journalists in Harare
  Harare
  Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...
  
   protesting the bombing of the Daily News
  Daily News (Harare)
  The Daily News was a Zimbabwean independent newspaper published in Harare. Its presses were bombed and it was banned in 2003.-History:The Daily News was first launched on July 31, 1999, and controversially banned in defiance of a court ruling in 2003. Its founder, Geoffrey Nyarota, was a journalist...
  
  .
• 9 February - Police have still made no arrests in connection with Daily News bombing
  • Government begins to pressurise Supreme Court Chief Justice Gubbay to resign.
• 14 February - Armed men in army uniform storm the house of MDC MP Job Sikhala and assault him and his pregnant wife.
• 16 February - War veterans
  War Veteran
  War Veteran is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in If magazine in March 1955.-Plot summary:The plot concerns an old man who claims to have travelled back in time from a future in which Earth has lost a devastating war to its own Martian and Venusian colonies...
  
   arrive en masse in Masvingo
  Masvingo
  Masvingo is a town in south-eastern Zimbabwe and the capital of Masvingo Province. The town is close to Great Zimbabwe, the national monument from which the country takes its name.- History :...
  
   ahead of mayoral elections.
• 22 February - Foreign journalist Mercedes Sayagues and BBC
  BBC
  The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
  
   Correspondent Joseph Winter, both resident in Zimbabwe
  Zimbabwe
  Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
  
  , are declared prohibited immigrants and ordered to leave the country
  • People suspected to be war veterans attempt to break into the home of journalist Joseph Winter
    • CIO agents attempt to break into the home of Loice Matanda-Moyo, an officer in the Attorney General's Office who had granted an order extending the departure date of journalist Joseph Winter.
• 27 February - Senior Police Assistant Commissioner Solomon Ncube resigns from the force.

March

• Five people are murdered in political violence in March 2001.
• 1 March - In an annual report, figures show that tourist arrivals have shrunk by 60 per cent and over 5000 people have been made redundant in the sector in the past year.
• 2 March - Soldiers are unleashed in Chitungwiza
  Chitungwiza
  Chitungwiza — known colloquially as Chi Town — is a high-density dormitory town in Zimbabwe. The town is approximately 30 kilometres south of the capital, Harare. It was formed in 1978 from three townships: Seke, Zengeza, and St Marys.- Background :...
  
   and other high-density suburbs around Harare
  Harare
  Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...
  
  ; numerous civilians are severely assaulted over a number of days
  • War veteran shareholders of ZEXCOM call for the arrest of Chenjerai Hunzvi
    Chenjerai Hunzvi
    Chenjerai "Hitler" Hunzvi served as Chairman of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association beginning in 1997.-Early life:...
    
     over fraud allegations amounting to Z$50 million.
• 4 March - Commercial farmer Gloria Olds, aged 72, is shot 15 times at her gate shortly after dawn, her dogs are killed and her car is used as a getaway vehicle.
• 6 March - Inyathi farmer Denis Streak
  Denis Streak
  Denis Hilton Streak is a former Zimbabwean first class cricketer and the father of Test player Heath Streak. Apart from playing cricket he also represented Zimbabwe at lawn bowls....
  
   is abducted and held for a number of hours by war veterans.
• 7 March - Armed men claiming to be war veterans shoot and seriously injure Trust Moyo and David Mota
  David Mota
  David Mota is a Spanish rugby union player for CRC Madrid. Formerly he was a player of rugby league for the Crusaders who now play in the Super League and for the CR Liceo Francés.His position of choice is at centre/wing....
  
   in Epworth
  Epworth, Zimbabwe
  Epworth is a suburb in south-eastern Harare. It is home to some famous balancing rocks.- Background :The bustling suburb is located about twelve kilometers out of the Harare City Centre. It is a high density suburb populated by mainly poor residents of Harare. It is bisected by a stream into two...
  
   outside Harare
  • Police have still made no arrests in connection with the bombing of the Daily News printing presses and have released no information on the matter.
• 8 March - Zanu PF-supporting judge, Godfrey Chidyausiku
  Godfrey Chidyausiku
  Godfrey Guwa Chidyausiku is a Zimbabwean judge and former politician. He was involved in politics during Rhodesia's unilaterally declared independence, being a member of the Rhodesia House of Assembly...
  
  , is appointed Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
  • Zanu PF MP Eddison Zvobgo accuses Zanu PF of introducing unconstitutional and irrational laws governing broadcasting in Zimbabwe
    • Armed war veterans invade an Harare estate agency and assault the managing director
      • High Court hears sworn testimony that Olivia Muchena
        Olivia Muchena
        Olivia Nyembezi Muchena is a Zimbabwean politician, currently serving in the Cabinet of Zimbabwe as Minister of Women's Affairs. She was previously the Minister of Science and Technology Development....
        
         (MP for Mutoko South
        Mutoko South
        Mutoko South is a constituency of Zimbabwe. Mutoko South belongs to Mutoko district. Mutoko South is a rural area.More than 7000 votes have been unaccounted for at the 2005 general election....
        
        ) told people at a rally that anyone who supported the MDC would be killed.
• 9 March - The Midlands Chamber of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI)reports that 1000 workers have been retrenched in the last two months in the Midlands
  Midlands (Zimbabwe)
  Midlands is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 49,166 km² and a population of approximately 1.5 million . Gweru is the capital of the province. It is home to various peoples...
  
  .
• 19 March - Zimbabwe Republic Police
  Zimbabwe Republic Police
  The Zimbabwe Republic Police is the national police force of Zimbabwe, known until July 1980 as the British South Africa Police. -Structure:...
  
   (ZRP) promote 300 war veterans to rank of Sergeant & Assistant Inspector.
• 20 March - A delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists meets with Zimbabwe's ambassador to the USA.
• 22 March - Exiled Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam
  Mengistu Haile Mariam
  Mengistu Haile Mariam is a politician who was formerly the most prominent officer of the Derg, the Communist military junta that governed Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987, and the President of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 1987 to 1991...
  
   and his family are given permanent resident status in Zimbabwe
  • Inflation hits 57.7 per cent.
• 23 March - War veterans storm the Harare Children's Home, shout, threaten and demand to see the supervisor; they also invade more than a dozen other Harare businesses under the guise of resolving labour disputes
  • 95 farms are listed for compulsory acquisition.
• 26 March - War veterans and Zanu PF supporters close down Bulawayo textile company Dezign Inc.
• 28 March - 500,000 people register for food aid in the Masvingo
  Masvingo
  Masvingo is a town in south-eastern Zimbabwe and the capital of Masvingo Province. The town is close to Great Zimbabwe, the national monument from which the country takes its name.- History :...
  
   province
  • War veterans and Zanu PF supporters invade companies in Kadoma
    Kadoma, Zimbabwe
    Kadoma is a city in Zimbabwe in the Mashonaland West province, 140 km south-west of Harare on the main road to Bulawayo. It was known as Gatooma until 1982....
    
    .
• 29 March - Masvingo Provincial Governor Josiah Hungwe threatens Masvingo residents with death if they do not vote for Zanu PF in mayoral elections.
• 31 March - Harare Hospital reports that it has run out of essential drugs; nine infant deaths are being recorded per week at the hospital; 80 per cent of children admitted are suffering from malnutrition
  Malnutrition
  Malnutrition is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking, in excess , or in the wrong proportions....
  
  .

April

• 2 April - Nurses and health workers in Nkayi
  Nkayi, Zimbabwe
  Nkayi is a district in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe and is located about 100 km west of Kwekwe and 168 km north-east of Bulawayo in Nkayi communal land. It is believed that its name originates from the Tonga word "Uyinkayi" meaning "where are you going"...
  
  , suspected of supporting the MDC, are dismissed and replaced by army personnel.
• 4 April - Chenjerai Hunzvi
  Chenjerai Hunzvi
  Chenjerai "Hitler" Hunzvi served as Chairman of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association beginning in 1997.-Early life:...
  
   announces that war veterans will set up base centres in all urban centres
  • Teachers are forced to pay protection money to war veterans in Mashonaland East.
• 9 April - Zimbabwean lawyers petition Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri
  Augustine Chihuri
  -References:...
  
   to stop police harassment of lawyers
  • University of Zimbabwe
    University of Zimbabwe
    The University of Zimbabwe in Harare, is the oldest and largest university in Zimbabwe. It was founded through a special relationship with the University of London and it opened its doors to its first students in 1952. The university has ten faculties offering a wide variety of degree programmes...
    
     (UZ) first-year student Batanai Hadzizi dies after being assaulted by riot police.
• 10 April - Riot police fire shrapnel-loaded tear gas at University of Zimbabwe students who march in peaceful protest through Harare
  Harare
  Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...
  
  
  • War veteran Joseph Chinotimba
    Joseph Chinotimba
    Joseph Chinotimba is a Zimbabwean political figure. He rose to prominence during the invasions of white owned commercial farms that started after the 2000 referendum in Zimbabwe. He is widely regarded as a militant ZANU-PF cadre with unquestionable allegiance to the old guard of the ruling party...
    
     declares himself the president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions
    Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions
    The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions is the dominant central trade union federation in Zimbabwe. The general secretary of ZCTU is Wellington Chibebe and the president is Lovemore Matombo....
    
    
    • War veterans and Zanu PF supporters invade and close the Chipinge
      Chipinge
      Chipinge is a town in southeastern Zimbabwe in the province of Manicaland near the Mozambique border. The town lies in a valley in the southern Eastern Highlands. One of Zimbabwe's most famous landmarks, the Birchenough Bridge is located on the Sabi River 62 km from Chipinge...
      
       branch of Farm and City Centre.
• 12 April - War veterans and Zanu PF supporters assault five senior officials at the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe
  Cotton Company of Zimbabwe
  The Cotton Company of Zimbabwe, is, according to its website, the largest cotton processing and marketing organization in Southern Africa. The company, known as "COTTCO", works with individual cotton farmers, providing agronomic and financial support "at every stage of cotton production". Cottco...
  
  's Gokwe branch
  • Hundreds of villagers from the Kezi
    Kezi
    Kezi is a village in Matabeleland South province in Zimbabwe....
    
     district flee to the mountains to escape rampaging war veterans and government supporters incensed at the locals' support of an MDC rally.
• 18 April - President Mugabe threatens to nationalise mines and manufacturing companies that are closing down due to economic collapse.
• 20 April - Two Pakistan
  Pakistan
  Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
  
  i Businessmen who have invested Z$200 million in Zimbabwe flee the country after repeated attacks by war veterans on their city businesses and homes
  • 137 farms are listed for compulsory acquisition by the government.
• 24 April - War veterans and Zanu PF supporters invade the Harare Avenues Clinic, Macsteel Zimbabwe, Meikels department store and the Forestry Commission
  Forestry Commission
  The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for forestry in Great Britain. Its mission is to protect and expand Britain's forests and woodlands and increase their value to society and the environment....
  
  ; they also force the Dental Clinic to pay out Z$7 million, and the company closes completely.
• 25 April - War veterans and Zanu PF supporters invade Mechman Engineering and successfully demand pay-outs to employees of Z$7 million; they also invade Resource Drilling, Trinidad Industries, Lobels Bakery, Scotco, Omnia Fertilizer, Leno Trading, Willdale Bricks, Madel Training Centre, Craster and Phillips.
• 26 April - South Africa summons the Zimbabwe High Commissioner and protests the violent attacks on its business in Harare
  • Chenjerai Hunzvi warns that war veterans will target foreign embassies and NGOs in the ongoing company invasions; the EU protests to the Zimbabwe government about war veterans who raid and steal Z$1 million worth of food aid given to victims of Cyclone Eline
    • The Law Society urges Justice Minister Chinamasa to end attacks against lawyers
      • A seven member panel of international jurists releases a report criticising attacks against Zimbabwe's judiciary.
• 27 April - Agriculture Minister Joseph Made
  Joseph Made
  Joseph Mtakwese Made is a Zimbabwean politician, currently serving as Minister of Agriculture.He was the Minister of Agriculture before being moved to the position of Minister of Agriculture Mechanization, with Rugare Gumbo replacing him as Minister of Agriculture...
  
   insists that there will be no food shortages in Zimbabwe and no need to import any wheat or maize
  • 374 farms are listed for compulsory acquisition by the government - included are the country's major tea and coffee estates.
• 28 April - Still no arrests three months after Daily News press bombings
  • Minister of Youth, Border Gezi
    Border Gezi
    Border Gezi was a Zimbabwean politician. He was a close ally of Robert Mugabe within ZANU-PF and served as Minister for Gender, Youth and Employment from 2000 having previously been a provincial governor....
    
    , dies in a car crash.
• 30 April - Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies move their seven expatriate families out of Zimbabwe, fearing for their safety.

May

• Three people are murdered in political violence in May 2001.
• 1 May - War veteran Joseph Chinotimba
  Joseph Chinotimba
  Joseph Chinotimba is a Zimbabwean political figure. He rose to prominence during the invasions of white owned commercial farms that started after the 2000 referendum in Zimbabwe. He is widely regarded as a militant ZANU-PF cadre with unquestionable allegiance to the old guard of the ruling party...
  
   invades May Day
  May Day
  May Day on May 1 is an ancient northern hemisphere spring festival and usually a public holiday; it is also a traditional spring holiday in many cultures....
  
   celebrations and takes over the proceedings, says companies in Bulawayo will be named for invasions by his colleagues.
• 4 May - Economists predict that Z$8.5 billion will be needed to import grain into Zimbabwe; 40 farms are listed for compulsory acquisition by the government; MDC activists are kidnapped and beaten in Masvingo
  Masvingo
  Masvingo is a town in south-eastern Zimbabwe and the capital of Masvingo Province. The town is close to Great Zimbabwe, the national monument from which the country takes its name.- History :...
  
  .
• 6 May - Riot police seal off high-density suburbs in Masvingo as political violence breaks out. MDC supporters are arrested and have their car impounded.
• 8 May - Agriculture Minister Joseph Made
  Joseph Made
  Joseph Mtakwese Made is a Zimbabwean politician, currently serving as Minister of Agriculture.He was the Minister of Agriculture before being moved to the position of Minister of Agriculture Mechanization, with Rugare Gumbo replacing him as Minister of Agriculture...
  
   announces that all wheat exports have immediately been suspended. Made continues to insist that wheat stocks are adequate and no grain will have to be imported; violent clashes take place in Masvingo between MDC and Zanu PF supporters led by Chenjerai Hunzvi, and 13 people are injured.
• 10 May - The British Council
  British Council
  The British Council is a United Kingdom-based organisation specialising in international educational and cultural opportunities. It is registered as a charity both in England and Wales, and in Scotland...
  
   closes its Library and Information Department Offices in Harare for safety reasons; the World Press Freedom Campaign urges the Zimbabwean government to ensure the safety of journalists; Information Minister Jonathon Moyo says government will not order a halt to company invasions by war veterans.
• 11 May - Eighty-one farms are listed for compulsory acquisition by the government; the world-famous Gonarezhou National Park
  Gonarezhou National Park
  Gonarezhou National Park is a National Park located in south-eastern Zimbabwe. It is situated in a relatively remote corner of Masvingo Province, south of Chimanimani along the Mozambique border. The park is a lowveld region of baobabs, scrublands and sandstone cliffs...
  
  , which is state-owned land, is demarcated into plots for agricultural resettlement; the French ambassador to Zimbabwe publicly condemns invasions of companies by war veterans.
• 14 May - Mayoral elections in Masvingo are won by the MDC candidate.
• 16 May - War veterans invade Speciss College in Harare.
• 18 May - Some war veterans are arrested on charges of invading companies, but their leaders are not touched, in what is seen as a cover up operation; on of those arrested, Mike Moyo, says Chinotimba and Hunzvi have benefited financially from the invasions and threatens to reveal them; Mike Moyo is released from police custody; 19 farms are listed for compulsory acquisition by the government.
• 23 May - The house of Willias Madzimure, politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
  , is attacked by war veterans. The youth of the Movement for Democratic Change move into the area to protect the house
• 24 May - The Danish embassy suspends Z$100 million aid for private sector partnerships in Zimbabwe; Chenjerai Hunzvi is said to be recovering in hospital after collapsing in Bulawayo
  Bulawayo
  Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...
  
  ; the war veterans association denies reports that Hunzvi has died.
• 25 May - Chenjerai Hunzvi is transferred to Parirenyatwa Hospital
  Parirenyatwa Hospital
  Parirenyatwa General Hospital is the largest medical centre in Zimbabwe. Located in Harare, the hospital was formerly known as the Andrew Fleming Hospital, and was named after the principal medical officer to the British South Africa Company....
  
   in Harare and said to be suffering from malaria
  Malaria
  Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium. The disease results from the multiplication of Plasmodium parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases...
  
  .
• 26 May - Defence Minister Moven Mahachi
  Moven Mahachi
  Moven Enock Mahachi served as the Minister of Defence of the Republic of Zimbabwe. He was a close ally of Robert Mugabe within Z.A.N.U.-P.F.. Before becoming Defence Minister Mahachi served as M.P. for Makoni West....
  
   dies in a car crash near Nyanga
  Nyanga, Zimbabwe
  Nyanga is a town in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe, located adjacent to Nyanga National Park in the Eastern Highlands about 105 km north of Mutare. According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 2,973....
  
  ; five other people in the car at the time only sustain minor injuries.
• 27 May - MDC council election candidate is kidnapped and assaulted by Zanu PF supporters; he still wins the election in Plumtree
  Plumtree, Zimbabwe
  Plumtree, Zimbabwe is a town in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe, close to the border to Botswana. It is the local administrative centre. It sits at an altitude of 1280 metres on the watershed between the Limpopo river and the Nata river that drains into Okavango to the north. The annual rainfall is...
  
   for the MDC.
• 29 May - Zanu PF supporters attack six homes, burn possessions and assault people they suspect of supporting the MDC in Bindura
  Bindura
  Bindura is a town in the province of Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe. It is located in the Mazowe Valley about 88 km north-east of Harare. According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 18,243. This rose to 21,167 in the 1992 census. It is the administrative capital of the...
  
  ; the CFU
  Commercial Farmers' Union
  The Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe is an organisation that was formed to assist farmers in Zimbabwe with a variety of agricultural services. Farmers within the country pay a subscription fee which entitles them to the use of these services. Currently the president of the CFU is Mr. Deon...
  
   says maize production has dropped by 43 per cent and predicts a deficit of 600 000 tonnes.
• 30 May - US Secretary of State, Colin Powell
  Colin Powell
  Colin Luther Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African American to serve in that position. During his military...
  
  , speaks out strongly against President Mugabe and urges South Africa to do likewise.
• 31 May - Government officials including police, CIO and municipal workers are implicated in a land scam in which resettled people paid them Z$10 million in order to be allocated plots of land in Matabeleland
  Matabeleland
  Modern day Matabeleland is a region in Zimbabwe divided into three provinces: Matabeleland North, Bulawayo and Matabeleland South. These provinces are in the west and south-west of Zimbabwe, between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers. The region is named after its inhabitants, the Ndebele people...
  
  ; the CFU withdraws all litigation against the government and announces the formation of the Zimbabwe Joint Resettlement Initiative with Z$1 billion offered in aid for resettled people.

June

• One person is murdered in political violence in June 2001.
• 4 June - War veteran leader Chenjerai "Hitler" Hunzvi
  Chenjerai Hunzvi
  Chenjerai "Hitler" Hunzvi served as Chairman of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association beginning in 1997.-Early life:...
  
   dies at 51.
• 7 June - War veterans invade the property of black commercial farmer Philemon Matibe who was the MDC candidate for Chegutu
  Chegutu
  Chegutu is a town in the Mashonaland West province, northern Zimbabwe and is 110km southwest of Harare on the main Harare-Bulawayo road . According to the 1992 Population Census, the town had a population of 30,191...
  
   and whose contesting of the 2000 parliamentary election results in court is due to commence within days; Mr Matibe is forced to vacate the farm and dismiss his workers.
• 8 June - Twenty-seven farms in Macheke
  Macheke
  Macheke is a town in the province of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, located about 105 km south-east of Harare on the main Harare-Mutare road. According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 1,888. It was named after the Macheke River and means "you have divided"...
  
   are not operating due to war veterans enforcing work stoppages.
• 9 June - War veterans invade the Beatrice Country Club. Farmers holding a cricket match are accused of celebrating the death of Chenjerai Hunzvi. War veterans chase all patrons away, consume all the food and alcohol and rename the premises the Chenjerai Hitler Hunzvi Club.
• 12 June - The Bulawayo
  Bulawayo
  Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...
  
   branch of the CZI reports that 400 companies have closed and 100000 people have been made jobless due to continuing economic decline.
• 13 June - War veterans vandalise Z$50 million of property on farms in Masvingo
  Masvingo
  Masvingo is a town in south-eastern Zimbabwe and the capital of Masvingo Province. The town is close to Great Zimbabwe, the national monument from which the country takes its name.- History :...
  
  .
• 14 June - Petrol, diesel, paraffin and aviation fuel prices rise by 70 per cent.
• 15 June - A 50-year-old female Australian aid worker is assaulted by war veterans for walking past the house where mourners of Chenjerai Hunzvi were gathered; the Agricultural Workers Union reports that only three out of every 500 people being resettled on seized farms are farm workers and says many thousands face destitution.
• 17 June - Farm worker Zondiwa Dumukani is beaten to death with golf clubs by government supporters in front of numerous eyewitnesses and a ZBC
  Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation
  The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation is the state-controlled broadcaster in Zimbabwe. It succeeded the Voice of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1980, which in turn had succeeded the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation in 1979...
  
   television camera crew; war veterans burn tobacco seed beds on seven properties, one of which reports loss to the value of Z$42 million. The Tobacco Association reports that 80 tobacco farms have been prevented from planting a crop, representing a loss of 19 per cent of the country's total harvest.
• 18 June - BBC
  BBC
  The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
  
   documentary producer Sean Langan
  Sean Langan
  Sean Langan is a British journalist and documentary film-maker. Langan works in dangerous and volatile situations; including environments noted for war, conflict and civil unrest. In 2008 he was kidnapped along with his translator while filming in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region...
  
   is ordered out of the country; eight headmen, 25 teachers and two headmasters are fired by way veterans in Buhera
  Buhera
  Buhera is a district in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe about 82 km south east of Chivhu. It serves as the administrative and commercial centre for the Sabi communal lands....
  
   and ordered to leave the area.
• 19 June - A BBC TV crew (Simon Finch, John Sweeney
  John Sweeney (journalist)
  John Sweeney is an award-winning journalist and author, currently working as an investigative journalist for the BBC's Panorama series.- Investigative journalism :...
  
   and James Miller
  James Miller (filmmaker)
  James Henry Dominic Miller was a Welsh cameraman, producer, and director, and recipient of numerous awards, including five Emmy Awards. He often worked with Saira Shah with whom he founded and operated an independent production company called Frostbite Productions in 2001...
  
  ) are ordered out of Zimbabwe by Information Minister Jonathon Moyo.
• 20 June - Ministry of Education officials tell teachers fired by war veterans in Buhera
  Buhera
  Buhera is a district in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe about 82 km south east of Chivhu. It serves as the administrative and commercial centre for the Sabi communal lands....
  
   that if they do not resolve their political differences with war veterans they will be struck off the payroll.
• 22 June - 421 farms are listed for compulsory acquisition by government. Included is the farm belonging to murdered farmers Martin and Gloria Olds. Also listed are missions owned by the Catholic Church, land owned by the Cold Storage Company and the National Railways
  National Railways of Zimbabwe
  The National Railways of Zimbabwe is the parastatal railway of Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe railway system was largely constructed during the time of British colonial rule, and part of it represents a segment of the Cape-Cairo railway...
  
  .
• 26 June - 35 people are injured when government supporters descend on a gold mine in Shamva
  Shamva
  Shamva is a village in the province of Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe. It is located in the Mazowe valley about 90 km north-east of Harare. It is an area with fertile soils hence there is high farming activity.According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 4,617...
  
  , beat people and destroy property, accusing the mine owners of allowing NCA (Constitutional Assembly) meetings to be held there; scores of villagers, MDC activists and NCA members flee their homes in Guruve
  Guruve
  -Districts and areas:*Roundhouse*Delaware Mine*Natasha Valley...
  
   after being attacked by government supporters who accuse them of supporting the MDC.
• 28 June - The EU gives the Zimbabwe government 60 days to end violence and farm occupations, abolish curbs on media and uphold court rulings, or face tough penalties.
• 29 June - An 18-page supplement to the Herald newspaper lists another 2030 farms which have been gazetted for compulsory acquisition by the government: 90 per cent of farming properties in the country are now listed for seizure; UK Daily Telegraph journalist David Blair
  David Blair (journalist)
  David Blair is the Energy Correspondent of the Financial Times, having formerly worked for the Daily Telegraph as a Foreign Correspondent and then Diplomatic Editor.-Early life and education:...
  
   is ordered to leave Zimbabwe.
• 30 June - Sixty war veterans armed with axes and broken bottles barricade the Marondera Hotel and prevent an NCA meeting from being held there.

July

• 2 July - Armed war veterans evict a family from their home in Waterfalls
  Waterfalls, Harare
  Waterfalls is the name of a residential suburb in the south of Harare, Zimbabwe. The neighbourhoods within Waterfalls are Derbyshire, Grobbie Park, Houghton Park, Induna Park, Midlands, Mainway Meadows, Malvern , Parktown, Uplands and Shortstone . It is bordered by Highfield, Glen Norah, Hatfield,...
  
   in Harare, saying they are going to settle on the premises; the Supreme Court rules four to one that the government's Fast Track Land Resettlement Scheme is illegal and that no more Section 5 or 8 letters should be issued.
• 5 July - Author George Mujajati is severely assaulted in his home by armed men in army uniform for not going to work due to the nationwide stayaway called by ZCTU
  Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions
  The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions is the dominant central trade union federation in Zimbabwe. The general secretary of ZCTU is Wellington Chibebe and the president is Lovemore Matombo....
  
  ; armed soldiers beat people indiscriminately in five Harare high-density suburbs for the same reason; farming industry experts say that farm output will decline by 90 per cent and 300,000 farm workers will become destitute if the government goes ahead with the seizure of all farms listed for acquisition.
• 6 July - New Chief Justice Chidyausiku says that previous Supreme Court rulings against the government's land reform programme was incorrect, four judges in the Supreme Court disagree with the judgement; legislation is gazetted barring dual nationality in Zimbabwe: people who were born in Zimbabwe but whose parents were not are required to renounce any claims to citizenship by ancestry of any other country; 20,000 war veterans are given backdated allowances by the government for their role in land seizures after representation was made by Joseph Chinotimba to Zanu PF.

December

• 4 December - The Supreme Court rules that Robert Mugabe
  Robert Mugabe
  Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...
  
  's controversial land reform programme is legal.

Deaths

• April - Border Gezi
  Border Gezi
  Border Gezi was a Zimbabwean politician. He was a close ally of Robert Mugabe within ZANU-PF and served as Minister for Gender, Youth and Employment from 2000 having previously been a provincial governor....
  
  , Youth and Employment Creation Minister dies in a car accident.
• May - Moven Mahachi
  Moven Mahachi
  Moven Enock Mahachi served as the Minister of Defence of the Republic of Zimbabwe. He was a close ally of Robert Mugabe within Z.A.N.U.-P.F.. Before becoming Defence Minister Mahachi served as M.P. for Makoni West....
  
  , Minister of Defence is killed in a car crash.