Robert Mugabe has been blasted for being insensitive on Independence Day by conniving with his business-partner, a white Zimbabwean Billy Rautenbach, against the Chingwizi black people who have seen no rest after they were illegally removed by government from their dwellings.
Reports coming from the area reveal that Rautenbach whose experimental 5 year old ethanol project has dismally failed, is set to be handed another 400 hectares from the Chingwizi settlement sites. Rautenbach’s previous project also caused the displacement of thousands of black villagers who have received no compensation after even their ancestors’ graves were destroyed by the businessman.
Mugabe’s Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Senator Shuvai Mahofa is on a collision course with nearly 3 000 Tokwe-Mukosi flood victims at Nuanetsi Ranch who have put conditions for their second relocation.
Sen Mahofa this week said Government had identified seven farms in Mwenezi district where the villagers would be relocated starting next week. The villagers complained about arid conditions at the Nuanetsi which also lacks grazing land for their livestock.
Sen Mahofa said the second relocation would begin once funds were made available.
However, the villagers want to be paid compensation for lost property before they are relocated again.
Government owes the families $7 million. They are also demanding that Government sets up infrastructure like schools and clinics before moving them.
Villagers who spoke to the State Media said they were not happy with the lives they had been leading since their relocation from the Tokwe-Mukosi basin.
They have already been told they were being relocated from their current one-hectare plots to make way for a $400 million ethanol plant to be built by the Zimbabwe Bio Energy (ZBE). ZBE is linked to Rautenbach.
ZBE is one of the private companies that has undertaken to assist in the relocation of the villagers from their current plots and also promised to install running water at their new homes.
“We are not happy with the treatment that we have been receiving from the time that Government moved us here. Now we are being told that we will be relocated again. How do we build new houses when we have already expended the little resources we had on our current homes?’’ said one of the flood victims who refused to be named.
“We will voluntarily leave our plots if they pay us compensation and also build social amenities in the areas where they intend to resettle us. What boggles the mind is why we were moved here in the first place when the authorities knew that this area was not our permanent home.
“We suspect that we are being moved because this area is close to the confluence of Runde and Mutirikwe Rivers that will supply water to the ethanol plant,’’ said another flood victim.
The families said they wanted to be compensated so that they could individually look for alternative land to restart their lives.
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The owner of Zimbabwe takes land from who ever he wants and gives it to who ever he wants. That’s why some of us have been dragged kicking all the way since day one of independence 1980 to accept that Mugabe is a revolutionary.He is not and he has never been Here is a typical opportunist who has always taken advantage of the peoples patience. Silambe over !
The owner of Zimbabwe takes land from who ever he wants and gives it to who ever he wants. That’s why some of us have been dragged kicking all the way since day one of independence 1980 to accept that Mugabe is a revolutionary.He is not and he has never been Here is a typical opportunist who has always taken advantage of the peoples patience. Silambe over !
The owner of Zimbabwe takes land from who ever he wants and gives it to who ever he wants. That’s why some of us have been dragged kicking all the way since day one of independence 1980 to accept that Mugabe is a revolutionary.He is not and he has never been Here is a typical opportunist who has always taken advantage of the peoples patience. Silambe over !
He was reported as saying, he does not want to see a white person, yet he is sharing the same blankets, possibly the wife, as well, with the very same white man. Maybe it goes with the genes.
He was reported as saying, he does not want to see a white person, yet he is sharing the same blankets, possibly the wife, as well, with the very same white man. Maybe it goes with the genes.
He was reported as saying, he does not want to see a white person, yet he is sharing the same blankets, possibly the wife, as well, with the very same white man. Maybe it goes with the genes.