By A Correspondent| A Masvingo magistrate has granted temporary relief to the Chilonga villagers who are facing eviction from their ancestral homeland to pave way for Dendairy grass farming project.

Centre for Natural Resource Governance which engaged a private law firm to represent the affected community.

According to CNRG Director, Farai Maguwu, a team lawyers first visited Chilonga on Wednesday to speak to the affected families and get instructions before proceeding to Masvingo to file the application stopping the evictions.

The State has until 31 March to give valid reasons why this community must be displaced or why the order to evict the said community must not be interdicted.

About 12 000 Chilonga villagers were told to move away from their ancestral land to pay way for a grass project being spearheaded by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ally who runs Dendairy.