A minister’s son has taken a successful Chipinge farmer to court to force him off a farm. Manicaland minister, Ellen Gwarazimba’s son, Rem...
A minister’s son has taken a successful Chipinge farmer to
court to force him off a farm. Manicaland minister, Ellen Gwarazimba’s son,
Remembrance, dragged retired Swiss banker, Richard Le Vieux, who has
established a reputable business of exporting coffee, avocados and macadamia
nuts for the past 30 years,to court for failing to vacate part of FarFell Coffee
Estate.
In a warned and cautioned statement recorded by one
Assistant Inspector Makovere at Chipinge Rural Police Station, Mbudzana (40)
believes that the white commercial farmer was unlawfully occupying the land.
“I know the accused person, namely Richard Le Vieux as a
director of Farfell Coffee Estate referred as the first accused person. On
January 10 2019, I successfully applied for A2 model resettlement and I was
allocated land by the acquiring authority at Lot 1 of Farfell Coffe Estate,
Chipinge, measuring 229,400 hectares through an offer letter,” the letter read.
“I immediately approached the provincial lands officers who
took me to the said land. I was shown the boundaries of the farm physically
against a respective map which I also now see before the court as exhibit.”
He said Vieux refused to vacate the land on January 17.
Le Vieux,pleaded not guilty to contravening section 3(2)
()a) as read with section (3)(3) of the Gazetted Land (Consequential
Provisions) Act (occupying gazetted land without lawful authority) when he
appeared before Chipinge magistrate, Farai Gwitima.
He was remanded out of custody to May 29 for continuation
of trial.
2/6 This is no different from LAND INVASION, 2001 style: Folks still taking the law into their own hands; resettling themselves; armed with pieces of paper whose authenticity cannot be presumed. Where are the land ministry officials who should do the allocation & resettlement? pic.twitter.com/enKfg4bNBf— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) February 16, 2019
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