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The Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has announced that all people to be allocated state land for farming will now undergo a vetting process to assess their capabilities.
This decision follows reports that some previous beneficiaries of the country’s land reform programme have been underutilising or even abandoning the farms they were allocated.
Reports indicate that some beneficiaries of the land reform programme have been illegally leasing out the farms they were allocated, even though they do not hold formal titles or ownership rights to the land.
According to <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/strict-vetting-for-land-seekers-introduced/">The Herald</a>, there are currently 270,000 Zimbabweans living within the country, as well as 10,000 in the diaspora, who are on the waiting list to be allocated land.
Obert Jiri, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, said the vetting process is necessary as some past land reform beneficiaries are unproductive.
The objective of this vetting and verification exercise, Jiri explained, is to ensure that deserving and capable individuals are allocated land.
Those on the waiting list will be considered for abandoned or underutilized farms, and the ministry is also encouraging the establishment of joint farming ventures. Said Jiri:
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These joint venture facilities are practical solutions that we are exploring to enhance partnerships in farming businesses that guarantee productivity.
Not everyone will get land because there is a huge number that is on the waiting list. Those who still want land can still register and join the waiting list because it is their right to do so.
So far, no land is available, so we urge land seekers to engage in joint ventures and partnerships to allow more people to venture into agriculture.
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Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) was launched in the year 2000 with its primary aim to address the racially skewed distribution of land that had persisted since the country’s independence in 1980.
The programme sought to acquire at least 5 million hectares of land for redistribution to benefit poor and middle-income black Zimbabweans who had previously been landless.
This was seen as a critical step in correcting the imbalances of the colonial era land ownership patterns.
However, the implementation of the FTLRP faced significant challenges. The process was marred by incidents of violence and a weakening of the country’s overall agricultural infrastructure and productivity.
Despite its ambitious goals, the FTLRP did not ultimately deliver the intended outcomes. Instead, the poorly managed and chaotic land reform process contributed to Zimbabwe’s deteriorating social and economic conditions in the years that followed.
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

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Zimbabwe is making sure people who get land for farming can actually use it. Some people who got land before are not working on their farms. There are many people waiting to get land. The government wants to give land to deserving people who will use it well. They are also promoting joint farming ventures. This plan started in 2000 to give land to black Zimbabweans who did not have land before. But there were problems with the plan, and now they are trying to make it work better.

Beneficiaries Of Zimbabwe's Land Reform Programme Abandon Farms

Ten (10) people died on Monday and at least five others were treated for smoke inhalation at a farm in Esigodini, Matabeleland South Province while trying to put out a raging veldt fire.
Police officers were dispatched to a farm known as Lot 43 of Essexvale, near Falcon College, after reports of multiple people succumbing to a wildfire.
10 bodies, most of them farm workers, were recovered while five others who took part in fighting the fire survived and were taken to hospital as a precaution.
Environmental Management Agency (EMA) regional manager Descent Ndlovu told <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/2022/10/10-farm-workers-killed-while-battling-veld-fire-in-esigodini/">ZimLive</a> that he was alerted of the tragedy while he was in Gwanda. He said:
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I understand from our people on the ground that there’re lives that have been lost and I’m distressed by the situation. What I understand is that there are 10 deaths.
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Witnesses said the fire started during strong winds sometime in the morning.
The farm’s owner Abel Moyo then asked his farm workers and others from surrounding farms to put out the fire.
A villager who claimed he knew all the dead by name said:
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One by one, they began getting disoriented from smoke inhalation and they died. It’s such a sad situation, they were only trying to help.
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The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) on Sunday warned members of the public of the dangers of veld fires. It said in a bulletin:
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Strong winds increase the occurrence of veldt fires. Put out any fires found in open veld and road-sides. Do not leave any fire unattended.
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10 Farm Workers Die While Fighting Veld Fire In Esigodini

The Supreme Court has blocked President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government from seizing exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo’s farm in Mazowe.
Moyo co-owns Patterson Farm in Mazowe with his wife, Beatrice.
Justices Chinembiri Bhunu, George Chiweshe and Joseph Musakwa, on appeal, overturned a High Court ruling dismissing Moyo’s urgent application for an interdict against the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development and Barclos Mujuru.
Majuru occupied a section of the farm in October 2020 saying he had been given an offer letter for a section of the property by the lands ministry. An interim order granted in favour of Moyo on Monday reads:
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Until a final decision relating to the rights of the parties can be made by this court under case number HC 290/20, or the return date of this application, whichever happens sooner, the state of occupation by applicants in respect of the remainder of Patterson Farm in Mazowe shall not be interfered with by the respondents, its employees or assigns.
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Moyo lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court after High Court judge Justice Esther Muremba had dismissed his application.
Justice Muremba said Beatrice, who filed the founding affidavit, had no legal standing in the matter because the offer letter was issued to her husband.
Her lawyers disagreed, arguing that she was an applicant in the pending application for review and was entitled to “protect the integrity of an application in which she is a party.”
In the review application, Moyo and his wife are challenging the compulsory acquisition of their 623-hectare farm, which they bought for Z$6 million (US$105 400 at the time) from the government in 2002.
Moyo’s lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu, instructed by Chris Mhike, argues that the seizure of the farm is not only unlawful but also “motivated by extraneous reasons that are political and mala fide.”
Moyo fled to Kenya soon after the November 2017 military coup that overthrew then-President, Robert Mugabe. He said his life was in danger.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/supreme-court-blocks-mnangagwa-gvt-from-seizing-jonathan-moyos-farm/">New Zimbabwe</a></h4>

Supreme Court Blocks Govt From Repossessing Jonathan Moyo’s Farm

A Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) employee, Tendai Munengwa is set to lose some of his fowl runs at his farm in Goromonzi.
Munengwa reportedly runs a thriving poultry business with 10 000 chickens at any time.
However, the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement wrote to Munengwa notifying him of its intention to withdraw a permit on some of the fowl runs.
In a letter dated 14 May 2019, the Secretary for Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement, R. J. Chitsiko wrote:
<blockquote>RE: WITHDRAWAL OF PERMIT NUMBER 834 FOR THREE (3) FOWL RUNS AT MUKWENE FARM: GOROMONZI
This note advises you that the above-mentioned permit issued to you on 15th April 2019 is withdrawn to address issues regarding the use of fowl runs.
The Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement has directed that the fowl runs be shared. Accordingly, you will be issued with a permit for your allocation of the fowl runs.</blockquote>
Commenting on the development, renowned journalist and political commentator, Hopewell Chin’ono wrote on social media:
<blockquote>I have argued that corruption is not partisan when it comes to greed.ZBC News reporter Tendai Munengwa is a very successful chicken farmer but he is under attack from corrupt officials in the Ministry of Agriculture who want to take part of his fowl runs. He has 10000 chicks!
Tendai Munengwa wanted to run on a ZANU-PF ticket in the last election, so he is not from the other side, but he is still falling victim to the predatory system. I have argued that Political Reforms would bring sanity to land ownership &amp; tenure. How can serious farming take place?
How does Tendai plan for the future when his offer can be withdrawn just like that? How does a Zimbabwean in the MDC living in England even think of investing back home when a ZANU-PF election candidate &amp; ZBC senior reporter can be treated like this? This is why we need Reforms!
I have admired Tendai’s tenacity as a journalist, he overcame disability &amp; has become a good farmer. The man who wants part of his operation has a farm next door so he wants to be a multiple farm owner! </blockquote>

Lands Ministry Trims Senior ZBC Reporter, Tendai Munengwa's Farm

Former ZANU PF politburo member and Minister for Higher and Tertiary Education, Jonathan Moyo claims that on Monday soldiers visited his farm under the guise of a ZBC news crew assessing the progress and challenges of farmers in the area. Writing on Twitter on Wednesday morning, Moyo said:
<blockquote>Incensed by this <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2019/02/18/full-thread-award-winning-journalist-laments-the-seizure-of-farfell-estates/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">thread exposing the recent dastardly invasion of Farfell Farm</a>, a Manicaland agro-enterprise, FOUR JUNTA AGENTS TRESPASSED into our Mazowe family farm on Monday to make mischief using the name of ZBC “to assess progress and challenges of farmers in the area”!
While TRESPASSING, the junta agents ILLEGALLY videod PADDOCKS to give a false impression of under- or non-utilisation of the farm. Apart from cropping and poultry the 600ha farm mainly has cattle ranching YET NO CATTLE were videoed. Also, NO WORKER CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN UNPAID!
MY FAMILY OWNS THE FARM. We PAID the government for it in full in 2002 from a CBZ LOAN. IT’S OUR FAMILY INVESTMENT. On 15 Nov 2017, the same Army, that killed my father, attacked, looted and occupied our home and caused us to desert it before blocking my bank accounts. NOW IT’S OUR FARM!</blockquote>
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Jonathan Moyo Fears Losing His Farm To Govt

Addressing mourners at the burial of provincial hero Biggie Makuro at Mashonaland Central provincial heroes acre last week, war veterans provincial chairman, Sam Parirenyatwa said former liberation war fighters want to be buried at their respective farms to safeguard their properties.
Said Parirenyatwa:
<blockquote>It was our wish that our fellow comrades be buried at their respective farms. They fear that if they are buried at the provincial heroes’ acre their farms will be repossessed. The late Cde Makuro was given an offer letter a year back, but some people were giving him a torrid time. I promise his family that their farm will not be taken away. We appeal to the Minister of State for Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs, Advocate Martin Dinha, to intervene and ensure that the land is not taken away.</blockquote>
More: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/war-vets-want-to-be-buried-on-their-farms/">Herald</a>

War Veterans Want To Be Buried At Their Farms

Speaking at the burial of the late national heroine Gogo Maria Msika at the National Heroes Acre. President Robert Mugabe warned white people that Zimbabwe will never be theirs. Lately, President Mugabe has been calling for fresh farm invasions telling his <a href="http://news.pindula.co.zw/2017/06/04/white-farmers-allegedly-harboured-kaukonde-lose-land-mugabe/">supporters to “kick out” all remaining white commercial farmers from their properties.</a>
Speaking at the Heroes Acre yesterday, Mugabe said:
<blockquote>If you come to my place and claim it’s yours, I will fight you. In the same vein, this is what the likes of Joseph Msika resisted.
Whites came to Zimbabwe and wanted to make it theirs oblivious of the fact that what is not yours will never be yours no matter how much you fight for it.</blockquote>
More: <a href="http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/mugabe-to-whites-whats-not-yours-will-never-be-yours-20170929">News24</a>

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