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Bleak future for Zanu-PF Norton land beneficiaries
31 Oct 2016 at 09:35hrs | Views
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party might have inadvertently admitted it sold Norton residents a dummy by illegally doling out private land to prospective voters in Norton ahead of a by-election they subsequently lost to independent candidate Temba Mliswa.
Mliswa left Zanu-PF reeling after romping to victory last week despite the ruling party's use of residential stands to drum up support for Zanu-PF's candidate, Ronald Chindedza.
A private land developer, Maparahwe Properties, has since obtained an interim High Court relief to have the ruling party and its supporters evicted from the contested land.
The provisional relief order was granted by Justice Hlekani Mwayera after Maparahwe Properties approached the High Court suing Local Government minister and Zanu-PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, for illegal allocation of its land to the ruling party's supporters.
Meanwhile, Zanu-PF youths in Manicaland province have accused Information minister Christopher Mushowe of being a multiple farm owner and threatened to seize some of the land and subdivide it into residential stands.
The ruling party's provincial youth leader, Mubuso Chinguno, made the claims last week while addressing hundreds of Zanu-PF youths from Zimunya-Marange district at Berzel Bridge business centre in Marange.
Chinguno claimed that Mushowe allocated himself three farms during his tenure as Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister and land committee chairperson. Efforts to get a comment from Mushowe were fruitless, as he was unreachable on his mobile phone since Friday.
Mliswa left Zanu-PF reeling after romping to victory last week despite the ruling party's use of residential stands to drum up support for Zanu-PF's candidate, Ronald Chindedza.
A private land developer, Maparahwe Properties, has since obtained an interim High Court relief to have the ruling party and its supporters evicted from the contested land.
The provisional relief order was granted by Justice Hlekani Mwayera after Maparahwe Properties approached the High Court suing Local Government minister and Zanu-PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, for illegal allocation of its land to the ruling party's supporters.
Meanwhile, Zanu-PF youths in Manicaland province have accused Information minister Christopher Mushowe of being a multiple farm owner and threatened to seize some of the land and subdivide it into residential stands.
The ruling party's provincial youth leader, Mubuso Chinguno, made the claims last week while addressing hundreds of Zanu-PF youths from Zimunya-Marange district at Berzel Bridge business centre in Marange.
Chinguno claimed that Mushowe allocated himself three farms during his tenure as Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister and land committee chairperson. Efforts to get a comment from Mushowe were fruitless, as he was unreachable on his mobile phone since Friday.
Source - newsday
