The duo allegedly led the mob to evict four workers and
drove away 122 cattle before destroying tents and cattle pens.
Vigilance Rich Baloyi (35) and King Welly Nguluvhe (25)
were not asked to plead to public violence charges when they appeared before a
Beitbridge Resident magistrate on Monday.
Prosecuting, Mr Ronald Mugwagwa said on Wednesday last week
at around 4pm, Baloyi and Nguluvhe loaded 20 people into their Toyota Hiace
truck at Toporo Business Centre.
They were acting in connivance with three other drivers
still at large who had loaded more people into their vehicles.
The court heard that Baloyi and his accomplices drove with
around 100 people to Shobi Block subdivision 1 farm which was allocated to
Beitbridge Juicing Schweppes Sunrise by the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture,
Fisheries, Water and Rural Development in 2019.
The State said the two accused persons along with more than
100 others violently invaded the farm and accused four employees at the farm of
illegally occupying their grazing lands. They then dismantled tents and some
poles used to make cattle pens and set fire to one portion of the cattle pens.
They also forcibly drove away the four farm employees and
122 head of cattle for a distance of about 5km and ordered them not to return
to Beitbridge Juicing plant.
The matter was later reported to the police leading to the
arrest of Baloyi and Nguluvhe while the police are still pursuing other
suspects. Herald
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