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#mugabe evicts villagers to set up Game Park
Posted on March 19, 2014 by ZimSitRep


via Mugabe evicts villagers to set up Game Park – NewsDay Zimbabwe March 19, 2014 by Everson Mushava

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s family has been linked to the on-going eviction of over 900 families at Manzou Farm in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central Province, amid reports that the First Family wants to annex the property and turn it into a wildlife sanctuary.

Sources told NewsDay that the First Family also intends to build a university to be named after the Zanu PF leader.

Close to 900 families were yesterday ordered to vacate the area by armed police officers.

This follows a similar raid on Saturday where the police evicted a traditional healer Mary Kazunga believed to be a spirit medium of liberation war heroine Mbuya Nehanda.

Kazunga was reportedly dumped in Rushinga, her original home village, on Saturday.

When NewsDay visited the farm yesterday, scores of police armed with shotguns, batons and dogs were busy ordering people off the farm and destroying their homes.

Some desperate families had gathered what remained of their belongings outside their ruined houses while others were busy looking to hire trucks to ferry their belongings to the Harare-Bindura Highway where they intended to camp.

Others said they wanted to go to Bindura or Harare to seek sanctuary with relatives.

One of the villagers, who refused to be named for security reasons, said the police refused to disclose who had sent them.

He criticised the government for its brutality in evicting them just when they were beginning to harvest their crops.

He said the evictees would have no food between now and the 2015 agricultural season.

“They destroyed about 20 homes on Saturday and took away Mbuya Nehanda to Rushinga. Today (yesterday), they are ordering everyone out,” the villager said.

The villagers were being ordered out of Spenenken and Anorld Farms, which both form Manzou estate.

“They told us that all the people from Spenenken and Anorld farms should vacate. We do not resist eviction, but at least they should give us time to harvest our crops,” one of the victims said.

Some villagers were busy harvesting their tobacco and green maize crop, but remained in the dark on where they would be going as they claimed the police were ordering them out without alternative places to settle.

However, a source close to the development yesterday said that the land had been earmarked for the expansion of the Mugabe family’s growing business empire.

“They (Mugabe family) want Manzou for a Game Park. They want to partner with a white man who owns Thirtyford Game Park close to Manzou farm,” a source said.

“They also intend to build a university to be named after Mugabe close to the game park.”

Manzou was a game park before Zanu PF supporters invaded it at the height of the land reform programme in the early 2000s.

Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs minister Martin Dinha, however, denied that the evictions were linked to the Mugabe family.

He said the evicted families had been illegally settled by a self-proclaimed spirit medium.

“The eviction has nothing to do with President Mugabe. It is criminal and an abuse of the privileges of publication to allege that. I am the Provincial Minister and I was working with Deputy Minister of Agriculture (Livestock) Paddy Zhanda to remove the illegal settlers,” Dinha said.

About the traditional healer’s eviction, Dinha said: “I am sure she (Mary Kazunga) is now happily practising her traditional healing work back at her home in Rushinga.”

The Mugabe family empire will now include a lavish wildlife sanctuary and the Robert Mugabe University.

There will be a museum at Baradzanwa, a place where the legendary liberation war heroine and spirit medium Mbuya Nehanda was believed to have been captured by the colonial settler regime.

The Mugabe family already has vast projects in the Mazowe district, which include a children’s home, a state-of-the-art primary school, Gushungo Dairy Farm, and they recently appropriated a large chunk of Interfresh’s Mazowe Citrus Estates.

The First Lady Grace Mugabe recently told visiting former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawling’s wife, Nana Konadu Agyemang, that apart from her charity home and primary school, she was in the process of building a secondary school which would start enrolling next January.

On Saturday morning, about 50 armed police officers swooped on the villagers at Spenenken Farm around 4am and ordered settlers to vacate the farm.

Dinha recently promised to allocate the Mugabe family more land, saying he was not apologetic for doing so as the First Family deserved it.

“The land is no longer sufficient to sustain the projects the First Lady has on her sleeves.” Dinha said then.

The villagers were yesterday making frantic efforts to contact Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa and political commissar Webster Shamu whom they alleged had instructed them to stay on the farm until they were properly resettled following similar attempts to evict them last year.

“There is no court order to evict us,” another victim said.

Imagine that, an equal opportunity tyrant.

Yeah. Who'd a thunk it? I thought only the evil "white man" did this sort of thing.


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They are probably running out of evil white men to evict,....and they always gotta be evicting someone.

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Originally posted by Texas Blue Devil:
They are probably running out of evil white men to evict,....and they always gotta be evicting someone.

A+1

but funded by the chinese

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Originally posted by miko:
but funded by the chinese

Just like our very own Mugabe here at home!

Must be the "in" way to go for crooked black rulers.

Surprising. But equally surprising recently is that China is not "all in" with respect to Zimbabwe. Perhaps they are waiting for the next administration to ensure they get maximum bang for the buck, or should I say Yuan?

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Originally posted by Texas Blue Devil:
They are probably running out of evil white men to evict,....and they always gotta be evicting someone.

There are lots of other tribes for Mugabe to pick on--they have no idea what a state is--its tribal--once they get rid of the "white tribe" they will start on the rest.

Ain't the color, it's the feeling of power
Ruins everybody no matter where on this earth you are

Sean hit the issue dead center. EXACTLY!

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Originally posted by boarkiller:
Ain't the color, it's the feeling of power
Ruins everybody no matter where on this earth you are

Don't be fooled...color is part of the equation.

Have you stopped to think that all these Afro Socialist twats received their "education and training" in Moscow or Peking [or whatever.] Have a look at this http://www.iol.co.za/news/poli...1664003#.UysySqiSzG0
and think of what has taken place in Ukraine and apart from the locations, what the hell else differs? It is all theft on a grand scale and screw anyone who gets in the way.

A prime example of "Eminent Domain" without the formality of a court hearing before they take your property like they do in the US...

No constitutional protection in Zim. And even if there were, it wouldn't make a diff with Uncle B!

Is Mugabe getting into the safari business?

How many universities can Mugabe build?

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Originally posted by Safari2:
Is Mugabe getting into the safari business?

He has been for a while.

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Originally posted by JTEX:
Yeah. Who'd a thunk it? I thought only the evil "white man" did this sort of thing.


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Well, they managed to get in a dig at the "colonial, settler regime" .... just saying.

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Originally posted by ledvm:

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Originally posted by boarkiller:
Ain't the color, it's the feeling of power
Ruins everybody no matter where on this earth you are

Don't be fooled...color is part of the equation.

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Originally posted by SteveGl:

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Originally posted by ledvm:

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Originally posted by boarkiller:
Ain't the color, it's the feeling of power
Ruins everybody no matter where on this earth you are

Don't be fooled...color is part of the equation.

Steve,
If you don't believe skin color plays any role in Mugabe's decision making process...you are a very naive person or wear rose-colored glasses...one or the other.

So back at ya!

Actually, in this case, Lane, you're right - Mugabe is a racist - (I thought I was in the other thread about Buffett's 24mil).

But there's an undercurrent of racism in some of the white-hunter dialogue at AR that stands out like a sore thumb - (even when the speaker is unaware of it).

Now that's no big deal here, but might be in other more serious situations which have direct dealings with black Africans (who can smell a racist a mile off) ... and to make my point even clearer, the preceeding parenthesized comment by me has racist undertones ... (unintended).

I'll leave it at that.

You got that one right Steve.
Mugabe might be racist, but with his power he ultimately turns on his own people as well.
Like I said before, Power is the ultimate corruptor and when you are unopposed, well, we see it here in US as well.
Money is power and we can all look at ourselves in the mirror.
More money we make or have, we think we are smarter then person that has less.
Human nature and we are all guilty of it...