Terrence Machocho, a director in Manicaland Provincial
Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba’s office has lost a case in which he was
trying to evict a Chipinge farmer from his Stilfontein of Umzila Farm.
The matter was heard at the High Court circuit in Mutare by
Justice Isaac Muzenda, who ruled against Machocho’s farm grab.
The applicant in the matter was Lameck Bvurere, who cited
Machocho as the first respondent, Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement
minister Perrance Shiri as the second respondent, while Gwaradzimba was the
third respondent.
An order seen by this publication reads: “The first
respondent and those or anyone acting through him be and are, hereby, ordered
to restore to the applicant, peaceful and undisputed possession of subdivision
2 Stilfontein of Umzila Farm in Chipinge district.
“The determination of the applicant complainant currently
pending before the second respondent, the issuance of the offer letter in
favour of the first respondent by the second respondent in respect of
subdivision 2, Stilfontein of Umzila Farm in Chipinge district, Manicaland
province.”
Justice Muzenda further added: “The applicant be and,
hereby, ordered not to engage or commence new farming operations and activities
in respect of subdivision 2 Stilfontein of Umzila Farm in Chipinge, the parties
are to maintain peace and order towards each other pending resolution of the
process mentioned in the entirety of paragraph one of the order.”
The applicant had made an urgent High Court application to
stop Machocho from evicting him. In the application, he said the first
respondent disturbed his farming operations.
“The first respondent unlawfully and irregularly moved into
the applicant’s farming operations on subdivision 2 of Stilfontein of Umzila in
Chipinge,”.
“Without lawful cause, the first respondent resorting to
self-help has disturbed applicant’s peaceful possession of subdivision 2 of
Stilfontein of Umzila farm,” Bvurere said in the application.
He added that Machocho’s actions endangered the economic
activities at the farm. Bvurere said he supplies maize to the Grain Marketing
Board and was a grower of export macadamia nuts. Newsday
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