THE government wants
opposition legislator Roy Bennet to surrender his Charleswood Estate farm in
Manicaland province despite an order by the High Court last year barring the
State from seizing the property as part of its controversial and chaotic land
reforms.
In yet another example of the executive openly defying
court rulings it views as an impediment to its policies, newly appointed
Manicaland provincial governor Mike Nyambuya told The Daily News yesterday
that Bennet should vacate Charleswood because the farm had been taken over by
the State.
“Charleswood (Estate) is now State land as Section 8 was
issued to the farm which has since matured. Bennet is therefore continuing to
reside at the farm in contravention of the land Acquisition Act,” said
Nyambuya.
Nyambuya, a retired Zimbabwe army lieutenant-general who
Bennet has accused of using army personnel to try and illegally push him
from Charleswood, said he had no personal interest in the property but was
merely carrying out a government task.
He said: “This is a
Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement process which was started well
before I assumed the provincial governorship of Manicaland.”
Bennet has survived previous attempts by suspected ruling ZANU PF party
militants allegedly backed by some army and State secret service operatives
to remove him from Charleswood.
The High Court last year barred the
government from taking over Bennet ’s farm as the property was situated in an
Export Processing Zone.
Bennet said: “There is a valid court order
that bars all these people being sent by Nyambuya from entering my farm. The
High Court has barred the government from taking over the farm, so what is
legal about the invasion. This is clearly a political matter.”
Bennet said Nyambuya was using his military background to fulfil a mandate
given to the Manicaland provincial leadership by President Mugabe to remove
him from the province using violence.
Last year Mugabe challenged
his lieutenants in Manicaland to ensure that Bennet and another farmer, only
identified as De Klerk, were removed from the province.
Mugabe
accused the two of spearheading the MDC campaign in
the province.
“It is clear that Nyambuya is not only interested
in my farm but that he also wants to take over my constituency and he has
already started campaigning and he has enlisted the services of the army to
unseat me,” charged Bennet.
JOHANNESBURG – The price of a loaf of bread in
Zimbabwe is expected to rise to Z$3 500 (US $1) – the latest hike in the cost
of basic food commodities – after an increase in the price of
flour.
The cost of flour increased last week because low levels of
domestic wheat production have forced millers to turn to more expensive
imports.
Zimbabwe is expected to produce only 38 percent of its
food requirements in the current growing season, according to the latest
monthly report of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network
(FEWSNET).
It estimated that just over five million people in a
rural population of 7.8 million would require food assistance until March
2004, before the next harvest in April.
The situation in urban
areas has worsened as well. The cost of the December 2003 low-income urban
household monthly basket, monitored by the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe, rose
five percentage points from the November total to about Z$678 000 (US
$193.71).
The council noted that much of the increase was
attributable to the non-food component of the basket, which grew by about 23
percent between November and December.
The food component of the
basket only increased by about four percentage points to Z$441 000 (US
$126).
During the nine months up to 31 December 2003, FEWSNET
recorded a cereal deficit of approximately 174 000 metric tonnes, including
maize, sorghum, rapoko, and millet.
“Because of this deficit,
both rural and urban households were likely to be forced to skip meals, eat
smaller portions at every meal, and substitute cereals with vegetables or
other foods. Some (people) even had to migrate out of formal urban
settlements to squatter camps and rural areas where the cost of living is
lower.”
“A lukewarm response to the appeal for food assistance is
limiting the ability of the WFP (World Food Programme) and its partners to
meet the needs of all food insecure households,” said the
report.
By the end of December 2003, only 54 percent of the
estimated 610 000 metric tonnes of emergency food aid required had been
secured.
The official Herald newspaper said on Friday the
government had bought 70 000 tonnes of maize from South Africa to be
distributed as relief.
The Zimbabwe Standard reported on Sunday
that those millers and bakers issued with import licences for wheat and flour
were sourcing supplies from neighbouring countries such as Botswana, South
Africa and Mozambique, while small bakers were paying US$48 (Z$172 800) for a
50 kg bag of flour this week, up from US$37.50 (Z$135 000) last week. –
IRIN
THE state-owned National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has
been prejudiced of at least $1.8 billion since last November in a rail
wagon diversion racket that allegedly involved senior officials of the
parastatal, according to NRZ insiders.
Sources in the parastatal
said the racket involved railway wagons carrying clients’ goods being
constantly diverted to unscheduled destinations.
The sources
said the wagons were released to other clients without proper documentation,
resulting in the parastatal having to fork out millions of dollars to
compensate disgruntled customers whose goods had gone astray.
Documents shown to The Daily News indicate that five wagons, each carrying
goods worth about $350 million, have been diverted to various unscheduled
destinations since November last year.
Each of the wagons was
carrying 36 tonnes of either soya beans or soya meal.
One of the
diverted wagons contained goods belonging to Agrifoods (Pvt)
Limited.
Tonas Tlou, the financial director of Agrifoods, yesterday
confirmed that one of the firm’s wagons had been diverted, but said only the
company’s chairman could comment on the matter.
However, an
official at the company said: “We recall that we had such an incident, which
remains outstanding. It is a case of theft taking place within the NRZ and as
far as we are concerned, our claim is really against them.”.
Sources in the NRZ security department allege that efforts to investigate the
scam are being hampered by a crack unit of war veterans, which has set up an
office at the NRZ premises to make parallel investigations.
The
sources said the diversion of wagons was prevalent at sidings and stations in
Ruwa, Msasa, Marondera, Nyabira and Concession.
One of the sources
said: “The war veterans claim they came to investigate corruption among NRZ
officials. They have constantly interfered with our investigations and we
have failed to get to the bottom of these activities.
“They
harass our personnel and other NRZ workers during their
alleged investigations. An officer in the NRZ customer services unit,
identified only as Murenje, was brutally assaulted and ordered to undress
after the war veterans accused him of theft. Senior NRZ officials in Harare
and Bulawayo ignored reports from our offices.”
The sources said
unidentified senior NRZ officials – suspected to have strong political
connections – had allegedly attached two NRZ security officials to the war
veterans team, dubbed the “crack force”, without the prior knowledge of Oscar
Ndebele, the parastatal’s area security officer for the eastern
region.
According to the NRZ officials, the latest wagon diversion
occurred on 7 January, when a 36-tonne wagon carrying $360 million worth of
soya meal imported from South Africa and destined for Agrifoods (Pvt) Limited
was diverted to Concession.
The wagon, registration number
81050577, was taken to Concession, where officials allowed the soya meal to
be off-loaded without proper documentation, the sources said.
NRZ general manager Munesu Munodawafa yesterday confirmed the thefts and that
several wagons had been diverted in the past few months, adding that the
company had hired former assistant police commissioner Elias Magura as its
new security manager to help combat the thefts.
“I acknowledge that
we have had a problem of wagon diversions,” Munodawafa said. “We have put in
place a number of measures to try to address that and key among these is last
week’s appointment of Magura. The former policeman is working with both
internal audit and our division of operations to review our operation
structures.
“The diversions and thefts are being done at a local
level. NRZ people in the field who we suspect were involved in this problem
of diversions have been taken through the normal NRZ disciplinary measures.
These people have been trying to find ways of circumventing NRZ standing
regulations.”
On the presence of war veterans at the company
premises, the NRZ boss said: “We didn’t invite them. I am aware that there
are some concerned citizens who have occupied our Harare
offices.
“My understanding of their presence was that they came
saying they were worried about the level of thefts in the NRZ. If their
reason for coming was because of inadequate security, that has been addressed
with Magura’s employment.”
He said it was proper for the war
veterans to leave NRZ premises because they were not employees of the
parastatal. However, he did not indicate why he had allowed them to continue
operating at the organisation’s premises.
NRZ security officials
said in another incident, two wagons carrying soya beans for Northern
Products El Dorado, stockists of soya beans, were diverted to Ruwa instead of
proceeding to Harare.
However, the wagons were discovered before
the goods were unloaded.
Five suspects were arrested at the scene
and have been granted $50 000 bail in court.
A security official
said: “What happens under the diversion racket is that officials in the goods
office, working in cahoots with some senior managers and outsiders,
deliberately change the destination labels on the targeted wagons and replace
them with new ones which are date-stamped with a duplicate NRZ date stamp in
the hands of the suspected criminals.
“The people who do the
shunting at NRZ stations and sidings just shunt the wagons to wherever the
labels indicate. We have raised the date stamp issue with our management, but
they have refused to implement the changes that we have
recommended.”
The trade
union Solidarity has appealed to South African power utility Eskom to stop
financing the Zimbabwe government by supplying free electricity to the
Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa). Solidarity also urged Eskom to
immediately cut the power supply to Zimbabwe.
Solidarity spokesperson
Dirk Hermann said that Eskom need to explain to its staff and clients the
"need to finance the outstanding amount that Zesa owe Eskom". "We also want
to know how much the outstanding amount is," Hermann said.
According
to Hermann, Zimbabwe is in need of drastic economic reforms. "If South
African companies like Eskom go on to supply Zimbabwe with electricity and
other services without receiving payment in return reforms will never take
place and the South African comsumer will keep financing the
Zimbabwe government," he asserted.
According to Hermann, Solidarity
fully supports the fact that Eskom is expanding its business to other African
countries.
"On the other hand we cannot allow economic principles to be
thrown over board just in order to keep supplying Zimbabwe with the
necessary electricity," Hermann said.
If you
happen to be in the area of 24 degrees west and 24 degrees south, don't
bother looking for the small white rowing boat we mentioned in yesterday's
ZWNEWS. At the time it was, in fact, in the area of 24 degrees west and 24
degrees north. Our apologies. "Against All Odds" was yesterday at 25 degrees
west and 24 degrees north.
Court
Reporters THE ban of law firms which were not registered has created
commotion in the legal fraternity, with some firms yesterday admitting that
their papers were not in order.
In separate interviews,
representatives of some of the law firms which appeared on the list of 40
firms the Law Society of Zimbabwe barred from practising said the society
should have given them more time to put their papers in order.
Most
said they were still working on their audit papers, documents which should be
presented upon registration to the Law Society of Zimbabwe.
All lawyers
and law firms in private practice must be registered annually. They are
required to submit an audit certificate on funds held in trust
for clients.
Among the firms listed as banned was Atherstone and Cook,
which is instructing senior advocates representing MDC leader Morgan
Tsvangirai in his treason trial over the alleged plot to assassinate
President Robert Mugabe, and Ziweni and Company, which is instructing
Advocate Archibold Gijima in the ENG saga.
Atherstone and Cook
dismissed the LSZ claims that it was banned from practice, but admitted that
it was not able to provide the required accountants certificate
timeously.
"It is not correct to say that Atherstone and Cook was banned
from practice. We properly applied for practising certificates and paid our
registration fees, but were not able to provide the required accountants
certificate timeously.
"We explained these difficulties to the
secretary of the LSZ verbally and in writing who sent each partner a letter
saying we could continue to practise, and that our application was being
processed," it said.
The bail application for the two ENG directors,
Nyasha Watyoka and Gilbert Muponda had to be postponed indefinitely at the
Harare magistrates court after the lawyers failed to turn up.
It was
not clear yesterday whether the lawyers failure to turn up at the court was
related to the LSZ list of banned law firms.
However, Mr Oscar Ziweni of
Ziweni and Company said suggestions that his firm had been banned from
practising was misleading.
"We have not received official communication
from the LSZ. It is coming from the Press and as lawyers we should not rely
on the Press reports," he said.
He also said that in most cases, auditing
should be complete by December 31 but they had encountered some problems
arising from accountants and auditors.
"Some auditors and accountants
work according to their timetable but we try hard to push them to comply with
the deadline of the LSZ. Because of such delays by the auditors, we would
have expected the LSZ to extend the deadline to between end of January and
February to enable the auditors to finalise their work," he said, adding that
the LSZ had published the article without prior reference to the lawyers and
law firms concerned.
"They should have approached lawyers and get input
from them before rushing to the Press," he said.
Advocate Charles
Selemani of Herbert Chitepo Law Chambers said he was licensed to practise but
the problem arose because he registered late.
"I have sought
clarification this morning (yesterday) and they confirmed and certified that
I have regularised my application for the practising certificate for the year
2004 and that I am duly licensed to practise law and to have access to all
police stations prisons and all courts of law in Zimbabwe," he
said.
Adv Selemani admitted that the delay in registering with the LSZ as
required by the law was an administrative oversight of his
chambers.
"We are lawyers who must obey the law and we are not above the
law but it does not make sense and it is highly unprofessional for the Law
Society to communicate with lawyers through the Press," he said.
He
criticised the LSZ for not sending them letters notifying them that
their names would be published in the Press for non-renewal of their
licences.
"Ordinarily we expect the LSZ to communicate with its members
and formally advise them that they have not regularised their status rather
than to rush to the Press and publish peoples names.
"We are not
politicians but professional lawyers. We are a self regulated profession
which cannot be discussed through the Press," Adv Selemani said.
Another
lawyer Mr Charles Chinyama of Chinyama and Partners said in normal cases, the
LSZ would send law firms registration forms but his firm had not received
any.
"We are going to comply with the law and register tomorrow (today) .
. . we could not register in time because our accountant was sick," he
said.
Mr Chinyama said the conduct of LSZ to rush to the Press to publish
the names of the law firms was uncalled for.
"The President of LSZ was
supposed to have informed the law firms in writing. The whole issue to say
the least is defaming. How can the society we subscribe to tarnish our
reputation in that way? he said.
Majoko and Makoko Legal Practitioners
admitted in a statement to The Herald that the LSZ required one of the
partners, a Mr Vonani Majoko, to obtain a letter of clearance from Botswana
where he had been practising since 1993 until 1999.
"From year 2000
our Mr Majoko has been practising in Zimbabwe. The reverse clearance has been
prepared and should be forwarded to the LSZ either today (yesterday) or
tomorrow (today). Nothing in all this has a bearing on the Zimbabwe practice
which is a partnership separate from the Botswana practice," the statement
read.
The LSZ on Friday named 40 law firms which it said had not
submitted applications to renew their practicing certificates and had
therefore been struck off the register.
It also said some of the
applications had been rejected because they were irregular and did not meet
the laid down requirements.
LSZ president Mr Joseph James was yesterday
quoted by AFP as denying any political influence in the decision to turn down
applications by any of the affected firms.
He said the society was an
independent professional body regulating the operations and conduct of
lawyers in the country.
Mr James told AFP that some of the firms
applications were rejected because their registration fee cheques were
dishonoured by their banks or their bookeeping was not in order.
"I
anticipate that by Friday most of them will have got their certificates," he
told AFP.
In the decade in which the rest of the world rallied to
prepare to usher in the third millennium and the confirmation of a global
world order, a good number of the states along the western coast of Africa
and in the landbound areas of Central Africa had other priorities, having
found themselves immersed in conflict. Liberia, Sierra Leone, Cote
d’Ivoire, Congo. The result, needless to stress, is the killing, maiming
and displacement of the majority of peoples, both internally and
externally. Many of the externally displaced find their way out of Africa
mostly into Nigeria. The latest has been the high profile refugee Charles
Taylor who came to Nigeria last year amidst much controversy. If
farmers from Zimbabwe eventually resettle in Nigeria, they will form a rare
class of citizens probably to be styled capitalist refugees or something like
that. The bottom line is that in a continent where there is so much conflict
and hunger and where Nigeria is one of the few accessible lands of
opportunity, ours is the natural choice for resettlement within the sub
continent. While most of the region’s conflicts arose from disputes
over natural resources like diamonds (Liberia, Congo, Sierra Leone), the
majority of the displaced were indigenous peoples who lived directly on the
land before their displacement and had done so for centuries, during which
they had learnt to live in harmony with the lands and ecosystems of which
they are custodians. These massive displacements, not curiously, have led
to disruptions in these sacred relationships with diverse effects on
such ecosystems
Nigeria, the main recipient country
in the sub region with a population of more than 130 million already groans
heavily under the burden of infrastructural inadequacies, security problems
and an impending HIV/AIDS epidemic. Today, she has expended four billion
dollars on peace keeping so far in that region, through the ECOMOG allied
forces of which she has taken a leadership position. Nigeria’s
policy response to the refugees has been inadequate and ineffectual, in the
main. This has made state-assisted absorption into the society unlikely and
the immigrant is banished to life on the fringes. He survives only on the
benevolence of such institutions as the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) which supports refugee camps in various regions of the
country. This state of affairs becomes of particular importance as
Nigeria has serious civil and environmental problems of her own. The Niger
Delta has for over a decade now been a conflict hot spot, with considerable
worsening of the situation in the last few years. The Warri crisis does not
appear to be coming to an end and might well escalate, while eruptions of
religious conflicts taking their toll on the lives of thousands and the
shelters of thousands more are not a rare occurrence. The devastation to the
entire Niger Delta area for which Saro-Wiwa and the eight others were put to
death for hanging continue, and greater and greater pressures are being put
on the entire ecosystem. The indigenous peoples of that area have mostly lost
their means of livelihood and their delicate relationships with their
lands, waterways, and ecosystems and those who can not play “if
-you-can’ t-beat-them-join-them” by joining the oil companies as some
community officer or some other hifalutin title, are ending up in droves by
the day in the country’s major cities where infrastructures are already
stretched and broken down. The agitation for resource control has been a more
recent development and one which might not see the light of day for a long
time considering the myriad of other daily problems the state governors who
are spearheading the campaign have to contend with on a daily
basis.
In the battle for resource control as much as in
the prospect of the absorption of the white Zimbabwean farmers, the question
of the country’s land laws inevitably keep turning up. The 1977 Land Use Act
has been fingered in particular for having the tendency, depending on how it
is applied or misapplied, to give the white farmers an edge over the
indigenous peoples, while hiding under the umbrella of foreign investments,
just as it has the multinational oil companies with which the Federal
Government operates in the Niger Delta region. If that happens, another
region in Nigeria might for once have the opportunity of getting a first hand
experience of what the Niger Delta peoples have gone through for decades. Of
course it would only be a teeny little sniff, and we all hope it will not.
The bottom line is that the settlement of both external and internal refugees
needs to be a priority as a matter of policy, and they must be both tools and
partners in the preservation of the land and ecosystem for the common
good.
Sacrifice, our PR and the presidential jet There’s a
whole lot of difference between the economy of a state and its public
relations ratings and on the whole, no relationship whether inverse or direct
has been established between the two. Take a small state such as the Republic
of Benin just west of Nigeria which is relatively a sane, orderly and decent
country compared to her immediate eastern neighbour. Benin hardly figures on
the world map, while a country such as Saudi Arabia figures not for her
friendliness to strangers but for her great wealth. Nigeria comes low in PR
ratings, as well as in economic ones, yet figures on the world map mainly for
other ratings. One of them is corruption in government as well as on other
levels; and advanced fee fraud also known as 419 from the invention of which
most of our world wide fame derives. This is so much so that while our
internal efforts at combating 419 has been largely ignored, South Africa’s
satellite TV History channel has recently devoted resources to a frequently
aired documentary featuring Nigeria’s 419 scams and all the trouble which
they’re giving international keepers of law and order and the world’s greedy,
the searcher for easy wealth.
It is doubtful that Nigeria’s PR
ratings will go up if the presidential jet is changed, any more than if each
and every high commissioner in Nigerian missions all over the world suddenly
begin to drive the smartest cars in town. For one thing, the president’s
frequent trips abroad has done little to salvage Nigeria’s image, which the
president tries so hard to salvage, though his frequent trips might be more
the result of a complex than any noble, idealistic intentions. Nigerian
prisons do that to you, and you can be excused for being claustrophobic if
you survive, particularly if you were once resident in Dodan Barracks, where
the way to spend money was more the issue than the availability of the money
itself. So what does the president need a new jet for? He needs it, we
are told, because the present one, like every other thing or person he
owns, gulps too much money. Well, that’s about the president’s needs. As for
us, we need security, electricity and a government which will not impose
illegal taxes. Those are not as expensive as the president’s needs, when
you consider that they are for more than a hundred million people.
The president has asked us to be patient, optimistic and to happily
be citizens of the only country where there are blackouts and petrol queues
in peace time, so he can be the president of the only country where the
number one man gets on commercial flights to go on trips. Making the
biggest sacrifice is what being a leader is about.
Business
Reporter THE Zimbabwe dollar slipped marginally at the auction yesterday to
trade at a weighted average of $3 519,10 against US$1, from $3
518,19.
This is the first time since the launch of the auction system
three weeks ago that the local unit has lost value against the major
currencies.
The loss from the weighted average $3 518,19 against the
United States dollar on Thursday last week would not have an impact on the
economy as it is a sign that there are some alterations on the market as the
local unit now is finding its true value.
Some analysts said the
auction system was likely to trade within the $3 500 range for some time as
it is estimated to be the real value of the local currency against the US
dollar.
There were a total of 655 bids totalling US$7,288 million on
offer and one was rejected at the auction yesterday.
Last week saw 798
bids, 291 of which were rejected for various reasons. The successful 654 bids
were allotted a total US$7,279 million. There was a total of US$8 million on
offer, the same as the total amount on offer on Thursday last
week.
The highest bid rate accepted was $4 585,75, up from $4 500 last
week, while the lowest bid rate accepted was $3 000, from $3 200 last
week.
There were 20 participating banks, which is a sign that the
financial houses have continued to support the auction system launched three
weeks ago.
SECTION
5 PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF INTENT TO ACQUIRE PROPERTIES DATED 30TH JANUARY
2004 LOT NOS. 137 AND 138
LAND ACQUISITION 30TH JANUARY
2004
LOT 137 SECTION 5
No. Deed of Transfer Registered Name
District Farm Name Farm Name Farm Name Area 1 2107/78 Johan Christiaan
Adriaan Smit Charter Markdale South Markdale South Markdale South 1 77,5162
ha 2 5701/80 Malcom Kenneth Mackintosh Chilimanzi The Remaining Extent
of Felixburg The Remaining Extent of Felixburg The Remaining Extent
of Felixburg 861,2261 ha 3 2830/76 Jacobus Johannes Petrus La Grange
Chilimanzi Nuwejaar Nuwejaar Nuwejaar 2 851,0558 ha 4 738/64 Coert Erasmus
Chilimanzi The Reaminder of Norwood The Reaminder of Norwood The Reaminder of
Norwood 3 369,4832 acres 5 7244/73 Kathryn Anne Harvey Chilimanzi Culloden of
Daviot of Shasha Fountains 809,3726 ha 6 6499/80 Phillip Rudolph Kruger
Chilimanzi Middeldeel 2 510,7960 ha 7 1639/81 Johan Christiaan Kriek
Chilimanzi Osemrowend Estate 772,0545 ha 8 3465/80 Johannes Jacobus Smit
Chilimanzi Endama Ranche 1 386,6228 ha 9 218/96 Fefetera Investments (Pvt)
Ltd Chilimanzi Southdale 2 381,0122 ha 10 7788/89 The Jovner Family Trust
Chilimanzi Widgeon 5 333,8734 ha 11 4287/77 Malcom Kenneth Mackintosh
Chilimanzi Maxwell Farm of Felixburg 1 715,3972 ha 12 4287/77 Malcom
Kenneth Mackintosh Chilimanzi The Remainder of Daviot of Shasta
Fountains 1 157,1911 ha 13 4796/75 Jacob De Klerk Jovner Chilimanzi Northdale
2 831,4770 ha 14 415/84 J L Smit P/L Chilimanzi Lot 2 of Shasha Fountains 1
584,4509 ha 15 4290/91 Nyororo Farm (Pvt) Limited Chilimanzi Nyororo
Estate 2 412,7464 ha 16 122/63 Jacobus Marthinus Erasmus Chilimanzi
Floradale 1 502,7218 acrea 17 3465/80 Johannes Jacobus Smit Chilimanzi
Woodlands 1 323,3918 ha 18 2640/81 J L Smit P/L Chilimanzi Uitkoms 1 066,1748
ha 19 1755/80 Johannes Machiel Jacobs Chilimanzi Grassland A 1 372,7937
ha 20 1589/85 Joubert Brothers (Pvt) limited Chipinga Subdivision A
of Woodstock 256,9554 ha 21 6846/87 Lydell Farm (Pvt) Limited Chipinga
Subdivision A of Busi 202,3392 ha 22 1822/87 Randfontein Estates (Pvt)
limited Chipinga Heilrand 1 102,1517 ha 23 9395/90 The Chipinge Coffee
Compnay (Pvt) Limited Chipinga Lot 1 of Rietvlei of Kenilworth 31,4513
ha 24 10593/97 Crakehall Investments (Pvt) Limited Goromonzi Kilmuir
Annexe of the Meadows 1,4009 ha 25 208/63 Dirk Cornelius Odendaal Gutu
Blyth 1 540,7476 acres 26 5209/84 Hendrick Stephanus Veldman Gutu Lauder
741,7446 ha 27 10489/99 Sepbell Investments P/L Gutu Good Luck 1 320,9935
ha 28 4473/56 Dirk Cornelius Odendaal Gutu Strathspey 914,3264 morgen 29
6765/85 Cornelius Johannes Odendaal Gutu Willand 1 245,1417 ha 30 6764/85
Dirk Cornelius Odendaal Gutu Edgar Ridge 1 486,05588 ha 31 4899/85 Cornelius
Johannes Odendaal Gutu Lorn 1 978,4610 32 5051/82 Thomas Johannes
Bezuidenhout Gutu Ripley 543,0324 ha 33 2115/65 Thomas Johannes Nel Gutu
Goeie Hoop 1 886,0428 acres 34 5323/83 Dimitrios Gorgolis Gutu Strathearn
877,0745 ha 35 5323/83 Dimitrios Gorgolis Gutu Fortress 854,5695 ha 36
9766/90 Wheatlands Holdings P/L Gutu Wheatlands 1 444,5634 ha 37 340/85 Dirk
Cornelius Odendaal Gutu Merlin 624,4017 ha 38 560/62 Thomas Johannes Nel Gutu
Noeldale 3 970,5719 acres 39 589/73 Thomas Johannes Bezuidenhout Gutu Howden
663,0249 ha 40 455/70 Dirk Cornelius Odendaal Gutu Leyburn 1 412,7900
acres 41 2660/85 Benjamin James Layard Gutu Haig 625,5951 ha 42 689/76
Cristos Kantarias Gutu Ingogo 1 461,6423 ha 43 5081/84 Jacob Gerhardus Jovner
Gutu The Remainder of Welwart 1 402,3613 ha 44 10078/99 Jacobus Daniel Nel
Gutu Nelville 969,6304 ha 45 2443/86 Nmartinna Susanna Hundermark,
Frederick Albertus Van Der Merwe & Johanna Eliza Van Der Merwe
Lomagundi Maryland 1 302,9868 ha 46 2634/69 Bracken Hills A Development Co.
(Pvt) Ltd Inyanga Remainder of Bracken Hills A 544,0390 acres 47 883/51
Pulpwood Company Limited Inyanga Lot Z Portion of Inyanga
Downs Portion of Inyanga Block 8 195,7533 ha 48 1949/81 Martin
Gore Steward Marandellas Membge of Curruthersville 'E' 303,7255 ha 49
2546/00 Christopher Graham Francis & Douse Marandellas Surrey Estate A 1
344,1280 ha 50 7303/83 Mazuri Farms (Pvt) Limited Mrewa Murryfield 843,6417
ha 51 Certificate of Hippo Valley Estate Limited Consolidated Title
and 413/2000 Triangel Limited Ndanga Mkwasine Estate 18 834,831 ha 52
4816/54 Sangokwe Ranch Ltd (Proprietary) Nuanetsi Sangokwe Ranch Portion
of Nuanetsi Ranche 13 511,8999 morgen 53 1101/86 Richmoll
Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd Nuanetsi Montana Ranch Portion of Nuanetsi
Ranche 11 116,9338 ha 54 1478/97 Frederik Jacobus Van Der Sande Nuanetsi
Nandice Ranch A 9 506,2557 ha 55 5492/86 Chipangai Estates P/L Nuanetsi
Solomon Landgoed Ranch of Nuanetsi Ranche 10 484,9766 ha 56 4584/95
Johannes Hendrik Petrus Hattingh Du Plessis Nuanetsi Welkon Ranch of Sossonye
Ranch of Nuanetsi Ranche 4 444,2439 ha 57 834/91 Nyavasha Ranching
& Safaris P/L Nuanetsi Lort 6 of Lot 12 of Nuanetsi Ranche A 793,3321
ha 58 8968/99 Administrators of the Estate of The Late The Remainder
of Limburgia of Theodoor Carl Rijs and Louis Carl Rijs Nuanetsi
Nuaetsi Ranch A 11 049,9865 ha 59 7061/94 George Arthur Vilkoen Nuanetsi
Lot 50A Nuanetsi Ranche A 2 646,1056 ha 60 6797/73 B J B Ranch P/L
Nuanetsi B J B Estate 9 139,4981 ha 61 121/90 Bonora Ranch P/L Nuanetsi
Bonora of Nuanetsi Ranche A 4 935,2572 ha 62 4725/54 Bubye River Ranch
(Propriety) Limited Nuanetsi Bubye Ranch Portion of Nuanetsi Ranche 14
008,9167 morgen 63 9002/71 Edenvale Ranch P/L Nuanetsi Jabula of Nuanetsi
Ranche A 6 819,7612 ha 64 8900/90 Carmel Estates P/L Nuanetsi Lot 23 of
Lot 12 of Nuanetsi Ranche A 909,4856 ha 65 987/96 Bdumbi Ranch P/L
Nuanetsi Lot 24 of Lot 12 of Nuanetsi Ranche A 909,8011 ha 66 7992/88 De
Vos Ranching P/L Nuanetsi Lot 26 of Lot 12 of Nuanetsi Ranch A 872,2679
ha 67 7992/88 De Vos Ranching P/L Nuanetsi Lot 28 of Lot 12 of
Nuanetst Ranche A 813,1890 ha 68 7992/88 De Vos Ranching P/L Nuanetsi Lot
29 of Lot 12 of Nuanetsi Ranche A 833,7511 ha 69 1991/92 Lilunga Estates
P/L Nuanetsi Lot 43A Nuanetsi Ranche A 5 147 8939 ha 70 147/65 Mopane
Ranching Company (Pvt) Limited Nuanetsi Remaining Extent of Sembwe
of Nuanetsi Ranche A 6 410,6641 ha 71 331/85 L & L Ranchers P/L
Nuanetsi Rutenga Estate 14 167,4681 ha 72 833/65 Lowveldt Farms P/L Nuanetsi
Mkomati of Nuanetsi Ranche A 2 368,3867 ha 73 833/65 Lowveldt Farms P/L
Nuanetsi Altenburg of Nuanetsi Ranche A 5 846,8520 ha 74 5472/94 Muteke
Hills Safarais P/L Nuanetsi Lot 18 of Lot 12 of Nuanetsi Ranche A 810,8212
ha 75 170/87 Rondekop Farms P/L Nuanetsi The Remainder of Baobab
Ranch of Nuanetsi Ranche 2 122,8440 ha 76 7716/90 Nowab Akram Khan
Victoria The Remainder of Netridge 862,8805 ha 77 5776/79 Roy Alan Stockil
Victoria Marah Ranche 856,5223 ha 78 2529/90 Harold Arthur Paterson Victoria
Lamotte 428,2590 ha 79 2487/91 Sale Camp Investment Company P/L Victoria The
Remainder of Sale Camp 927,5421 ha 80 6084/90 Grange Farms P/L Victoria
The Remaining Extent of the Grance 1 475,2611 ha 81 1008/67 H J & P D
Swart P/L Victoria The Remaining Extent of Bompst 933,4734 ha 82 5022/
Willoughby's Consolidated Company Limited Victoria Eastdale Estate 34 490
morgen
LAND ACQUISITION 30TH JANUARY 2004-02-02 LOT 138 SECTION 5
NOTICES
Deed of Transfer Name District Name of Property Area
1.
453/60 R Nagel Beitbridge Remaining Extent of Bea of Nuanetsi Ranch
15844,0004 acres 2. 3972/88 BK Cawood (Pvt) Limited Beitbridge Lot 9
of Jopempi Block 8568,7173 hectares 3. 2733/90 E A S
Farming Enterprises Beitbridge Lot 10 of Jopempi Block 8
917,9699 hectares 4. 2430/91 Swans Estate (Pvt) Limited Beitbridge
Remaining Extent of Swanscoe Estate 1 642.1722 hectares 5. 2104/90
Jopempi (Pvt) Limited Beitbridge Lot 12 of Joempi Block 13
100,1884 Hectares 6. 1091/97 Lesanth Ranching (Pvt) Limited
Beitbridge Remainder of Lesanth Ranch 34 525,5993 hectares 7.
1522/89 Threeways (Pvt) Limited Beitbridge Remainder of Bothasrus
A of Nuanetsi Ranche A 7246,351 hectares 8. 3929/86
Sentinel Ranch (Pvt) Limited Beitbridge Remaining Extent of Sentinel 32
215,311 hectares 9. 2547/00 Michael Ian Heatg & Fiona Hean
Heath Goromonzi Remainder of Subdivision E of Binder 90,9601
hecaters 10. 5/86 James Ross Goddard Insiza Fern Creek 1
443,6383 Hectares 11. 1371/90 Robert Millin Flanagan
Lomagundi Njiri A 696,0263 Hectares 12 5689/97 G
Beamish (Pvt) Limited Lomagundi Gravelotte 3 494,9240
hectares 13. 3544/77 Christiaan Jacobus Jordan Lomagundi Remainder of
Mimosa 404,6748 Hectares 14. 3545/77 Christiaan Jocobus
Jordan Lomagundi The Remainder of Mlembwe (of Mimosa and Lembwe) 1
037,1957 hectares 15. 5080/95 Pilsbury Investments
(Pvt) Limited Marandellas Sutton Estate 808,9693 hectares 16.
4089/85 H A Blignaut (Pvt) Limited Urungwe Remainder of Blockley
of Nassau Estate 866,9527 Hectares 17. 4575/88
Tengwe Estates (Pvt) Limited Urungwe Fumeira Estate
582,5219 hectares 18. 948/99 Triple `M' Enterprises
(Pvt) Limited Urungwe Remaining Extent of Deamour 565,8805
hectares 19. 8501/71 Rendezvous Estate (Pvt) Limited Urungwe Remainder
of Subdivision A of Coldomo of Nassau Estate 991,9841
Hectares 20. 470/97 Non Memerty Farming and Consultancy
(Pvt) Limited Urungwe Remainder of Dunromin 809,2388
hectares 21. 4683/81 Linkon Urungwe Wajetsi 1 543,3728
hectares 22. 7782/88 DM Youndhusband (Pvt) Limited Urungwe Foliot 1
254,8864 hectares 23. 7270/72 C G Mason (Pvt) Limited
Urungwe Pollux Estate 596,7215 hectares 24. 60/73 Colin
Gurney Mason Urungwe Rugare Estate 441,2193
Hectares 25. 1856/78 Peter John Donaldson Urungwe Mukuyu
668,3913 Hectares 26. 3846/92 P L Moolman & Son
(Pvt) Limited Urungwe Monjack 1 875,2317 Hectares 27.
1742/92 P D Clifford (Pvt) Limited Urungwe Remaining Extent of Amore
394,8505 hectares 28. 3982/89 Pamela Elaine Sterling
Urungwe Kupeta 1 156,8325 Hectares 29. 1300/89 Cravan
(Pvt) Limited Urungwe Coniston 1 324,6020 hectares 30. 3224/77
Hesketh Park Estates (Pvt) Limited Urungwe Westlands of Hesketh
Park 609,2521
hectares
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