via White farmer ejected after claim by UK doc – NewZimbabwe 01/02/2016
A CENTENARY white farmer is now homeless after police raided his property at dawn, handcuffed him and took him to a police station, saying they were enforcing a claim made by a British doctor of Zimbabwean origin.
According to the Telegraph newspaper, cops caught Phillip Rankin unawares as they dug their way under the perimeter fence to his farm to bang on his door in the early hours of last Friday.
In September last year, Dr Sylvester Nyatsuro made Rankin aware that his tobacco farm had been awarded to him by the government. But it wasn’t until last Friday that police removed his property from the house and loaded it into a truck and drove to a police station.
Rankin’s lawyer Nyarodzoh Maposa told the Telegraph that the police who handcuffed his client did not have a warrant of arrest. “All of this is lawless. It’s disgraceful, there’s no charge against him,” she said.
According to the report, an arrest warrant which was issued earlier was later suspended.
Rankin, who was later released, is reportedly staying with relatives on a nearby farm from where he told the British paper that he was “terribly shocked”.
Barry Rankin, one of Rankin’s children, said: “I think we have finally accepted that we are not going back to the farm. I have also cleared out our house on the farm to avoid our things being broken up as happened when the police took my parents furniture and their piano.”
“We have now consulted with our pastor and we know it is over,” he said. “I don’t know what will happen to the tobacco crop as we are not allowed to be here and work.”
Despairingly, he added: “We are all finished.”
Nyatsuro is a GP running a slimming clinic in Nottingham in the UK and is reportedly connected to the first family through his wife. The couple first arrived at the Kingston Deverill farm in September with a letter from the government allocating the land to them.
The report said a lawyer acting for the Nyatsuroas issued a statement to say they were awarded the farm “in full accordance with the requirements of the Government’s Minister of Land and Rural Settlement”.
The statement denied that Nyatsuro was among those who went to take possession of the farm. Lawyers also claim that Nyatsuro is a mere third party in the dispute which is between Rankin and the state.
Last year, Zimbabweans based in the UK demonstrated in Nottingham against the takeover of the farm.
Rankin joins a list of many white farmers who have been hounded off their farms since 2000. About 20 of them were killed during the same period.
COMMENTS
So send the swine back to Zimbabwe immediately. He is an absentee landlord. And I ask the question again. Does a Zimbabwean living and working out of Zimbabwe have to declare his earnings to the Zim Government for tax purposes? It happens in other countries.
FYI
BOB THE TRIBAL INDUNA HAS A LUST FOR ALL THINGS BUILT BY HIS COLONIAL MASTERS BUT LACKS THE KNOWLEDGE TO TO SUSTAIN, HENCE (NOT IN 1000 YEARS)
COLONIALISM IS ENTRENCHED IN BOB’S DNA SO PAINFUL FOR HIM TO ACKNOWLEDGE I.E.
BOB LUSTS FOR
COLONIAL ATTIRE
COLONIAL AIR CRAFT
COLONIAL AUTO MOBILES
COLONIAL LANGUAGE
COLONIAL MANSIONS
COLONIAL OWNED ENTERPRISES
COLONIAL VACATIONS
COLONIAL CURRENCY
COLONIAL FINANCING i.e. Begging
THIS IS A MESSED UP FOOL IN A TRAP.
In Zim, the whites are finished. It goes without saying that their destruction also means this is the end of Zimbabwe as a functioning country. Zimbabwe’s economy will SURELY collapse totally.
THE UK IS TOO SOFT ON TERRORISTS LIKE THIS LITTLE BOY DR IN NOTTINGHAM. DEPORT THE THE TERRORIST BACK TO ZIMBABWE. HE IS A PRACTISING CHIEF THIEF.IDIOT.
But Doris, how can someone who is denied their right to vote still be expected to pay tax. More so pay tax on earnings that they get as economic refuges? If that is what is happening in other parts of the world then it shouldn’t !!!!!