Farms belonging to former Zanu PF officials who refused to follow Emmerson Mnangagwa have been taken away.
Among these are Professor Jonathan Moyo, Patrick Zhuwawo and Saviour Kasukukuwere.
I have seen the letter taking over Saviour Kasukukuwere’s farm, and the reason for the farm being taken over was “downsizing for replanning purposes”.
While Kasukukuwere’s farm is being downsized for re-planning purposes, greedy Emmerson Mnangagwa is “renting pieces of land on neighbouring farms”. It is interesting to know who these farmers are who Emmerson Mnangagwa is renting from.
Hasn’t Emmerson Mnangagwa been saying that farmers who are not fully utilising the land will have the farms taken away from them and given to those who will make them productive? Hasn’t Emmerson Mnangagwa been preaching about one man one farm, just like Mugabe used to? There is more than meets the eye.
There are stories told before Emmerson Mnangagwa became the leader of Zanu PF and later declared winner of the 2018 elections by the constitutional Court that Emmerson Mnangagwa used to protection fees to some white farmers around him who would be made to pay him half the profits of their yields so that they would not lose their farms as part of the land reform programme.
Such stories about Mnangagwa holding these white farmers at ransom in exchange of farm security must be investigated, but that is a job for another day.
What is public knowledge now is that the Constitutional Court declared President, Comrade Emmerson Mnangagwa is double faced, who downsizes his opponents’ farms while protecting some lazy farmers who are underutilising land when thousands of unemployed youths, including some in Zanu PF do not have any land to farm.
Zanu PF has made land a Zanu PF only asset, and that is not what the war of liberation was fought for.
Kennedy Kaitano
Some background reading
ED, Acting President Chiwenga, spend day at farm, and ED renting land from neighbours
https://www.herald.co.zw/ed-acting-president-chiwenga-spend-day-at-farm/
Government Takes Over Kasukukuwere’s farm https://www.zimeye.net/2020/01/22/government-takes-over-kasukuwere-farm/