By Paul Nyathi | Farmers Rob Smart and his son Darreyn were on Thursday given a thunderous welcome by villagers at Lesbury Estates in Headlands communal lands east of the Harare.
The now almost delict farm had been taken over by Tebernacle Missions leader Bishop Trevor Manhanga a self confessed ZANU PF and Robert Mugabe loyalist who already had two farms.
The ZANU PF die hard clerick evicted Robert Smart from Lesbury farm with the help of armed police and ZANU PF militia early this year.
The Smart family had stayed at the farm for more than eight (8) decades and only to be evicted after Bishop Manhanga had claimed that he was “given” the farm by government.
“I am in legal and lawful possession of an offer letter issued on 15th March 2015 to a piece of land measuring 100 hectares of Lesbury Estates in Makoni District,” he said on taking over the farm.
“ There are at least two other persons known to me who also have valid offer letters to land on Lesbury Estates, namely the current Chief Tandi (Mr. William Samhungu) and Mr. David Nyakonda. I am not privy to the amount of land that has been offered to them but none of us is in dispute with each other,” Bishop Manhanga said.
The Pro –President Robert Mugabe cleric said, Mr Smart deserved to be evicted because he was “arrogant”.
The eviction of the white farmer, left over 10 000 local villagers who depended on the farmer in terms of employment stranded.
According to the villagers where Lesbury farm is situated, Mr Smart was instrumental in developing their area.
They said the white farmer was also repairing local roads as well as incentivizing teachers at local schools.
With a military escort, Robert Smart made his way back into Lesbury farm about 200km east of the capital, Harare, on Thursday to cheers and song by dozens of workers and community members.
“We have come to reclaim our farm,” sang the women and men, rushing into the compound.
Ruling ZANU PF party supporters, led by the liberation war veterans evicted many of Zimbabwe’s white farmers under a violent land reform program led by Mugabe.
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Thank you, but Corrections are better TOP to Bottom and not BOTTOM UP.
There is a little matter of SELF-CONFIDENCE. which would inhibit any such daring. LOL. You made me giggle by that suggestion.
Would also expect the same corrections from you mC.
To tell you the truth I was under the impression that I had credited you. Once education goes beyond Form Four, I really am not sure what the difference is. To me, if you reached Four Four, you are educated. I did not have such opportunities. If you want to take offence at how I express myself, please do, but I would like you to know that it is the best I can do and I sincerely have no intention of lowering your education. I also appreciate your correction, I just wanted you to know that my proficiency at foreign languages will take longer than you might have volunteered to budget.
Its only people with Title of PROFESSOR I genuinely detest, if they were born in Zimbabwe
A teacher, any teacher, to me is an educated person. I would be very happy to be one.
Can I ask you not to get tired of pointing out errors to us as I am aware that good language skills mean we are understood better and easier as ambiguities are reduced. I thank you.
I see. You seem to have misunderstood me Mai. I was not approaching it from a purely grammatical angle. Please read it in context.
There is no need to hide behind your eduactional qualification, or the lack of the same. It is unfortunate that you opted to disregard my own level of formal education, which might lie far below yours.
No wonder why Margaret Dongo at some point labeled male mugabe loyalists his wives. This manhanga guy is one such fool and sheep in a wolf’s skin. That is why I have a serious problem with Zimbabwean church leaders. True hypocrites…using the word to steal from the poor, rape unsuspecting women, plunder the country’s resources and to even kill those who stumble on their dirty secrets. This year I haven’t set foot in church and it has been a great year for me because no one was stealing from me using the word.
You seem to be a very good primary school teacher.
I am not as educated as that. I finished my Grade seven and then tried secondary and it was too difficult and I left school in Form 2. Tenses are the least of my problems.
But thanks for your concern. I assure you you are labouring in vain if you are trying to correct my foreign language efforts. You best just setting examples and eventually people like me will learn from you over a looooooong period. Longer than the time you were at school.
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Bishop Trevor Manhanga use to be a strong critic of ZANUPF but the moment he was given that farm he began to sing praises for Mugabe. What an undesirable element. He is a hypocrite.
You seem to have Problems with tenses. In English, “are” becomes “were” when in the past tense.
10 000 people getting jobs because the farm is productive and ZANU PF fools get rid of the person who is is at the head of that operation simple and solely because he is white. Then the same 10 000 people allow a totally uncouth cleric to come in and destroy everything. What kind of country do we live in?
The white farmer should be compensated for the income he has lost during this foolishness.
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