Source: Minister’s aide blocked from seizing farm – NewsDay Zimbabwe April 29, 2019
BY KENNETH NYANGANI
Terrence Machocho, a director in Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba’s office has lost a case in which he was trying to evict a Chipinge farmer from his Stilfontein of Umzila Farm.
The matter was heard at the High Court circuit in Mutare by Justice Isaac Muzenda, who ruled against Machocho’s farm grab.
The applicant in the matter was Lameck Bvurere, who cited Machocho as the first respondent, Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri as the second respondent, while Gwaradzimba was the third respondent.
An order seen by this publication reads: “The first respondent and those or anyone acting through him be and are, hereby, ordered to restore to the applicant, peaceful and undisputed possession of subdivision 2 Stilfontein of Umzila Farm in Chipinge district.
“The determination of the applicant complainant currently pending before the second respondent, the issuance of the offer letter in favour of the first respondent by the second respondent in respect of subdivision 2, Stilfontein of Umzila Farm in Chipinge district, Manicaland province.”
Justice Muzenda further added: “The applicant be and, hereby, ordered not to engage or commence new farming operations and activities in respect of subdivision 2 Stilfontein of Umzila Farm in Chipinge, the parties are to maintain peace and order towards each other pending resolution of the process mentioned in the entirety of paragraph one of the order.”
The applicant had made an urgent High Court application to stop Machocho from evicting him. In the application, he said the first respondent disturbed his farming operations.
“The first respondent unlawfully and irregularly moved into the applicant’s farming operations on subdivision 2 of Stilfontein of Umzila in Chipinge,”.
“Without lawful cause, the first respondent resorting to self-help has disturbed applicant’s peaceful possession of subdivision 2 of Stilfontein of Umzila farm,” Bvurere said in the application.
He added that Machocho’s actions endangered the economic activities at the farm. Bvurere said he supplies maize to the Grain Marketing Board and was a grower of export macadamia nuts.
COMMENTS
Vanhu vezanu pf vanofamba vachiti takatora land tikaloot zvaive pamapurazi becoz paive nevarungu. {They say the grabbing & looting was justified becoz the whites had also grabbed/stole the land from indigenous black people (our forfathers}” – right.) Tomboti hangu, the zanu pf people have some justification in that case – whether the justification is wrong/right at least they have it. Chotinetsa manje ndechokuti zvino mapurazi avakuramba achingotorwa-nakutorwa nevakuru-vakuru vezanu pf ivavo achingori kutorerwa varungu here? VanaBvurere vari kutorerwa ava kuti varungu nhai? All are long taifunga kuti murungu aine purazi muManicaland ndekaya kaMP kazanu pf kekuda kuchekeresa vana vechikoro nematicha pacyclone Idai. May I was wrong, we now have new white people like Bvurere vanofanirwa kutorerwa mapurazi futi. Saka, haaa hondo yeminda yezanu pf haifi yakapera muZimbabwe. ED adini zvake kumbonyarara zveopen business – open business yake ambogwa nekupedzisa hondo yavo yeminda.