{"id":36301,"date":"2021-03-10T14:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T12:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=36301"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T12:13:58","slug":"chiredzi-west-mps-comments-on-the-chilonga-grass-project-on-behalf-of-the-mps-for-chilonga-raises-eyebrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chiredzi-west-mps-comments-on-the-chilonga-grass-project-on-behalf-of-the-mps-for-chilonga-raises-eyebrows","title":{"rendered":"Chiredzi West MP\u2019s Comments On The Chilonga Grass Project On Behalf Of The MPs For Chilonga Raises Eyebrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Farai Musikavanhu the Chiredzi West MP\u2019s comments on the controversial lucerne grass project which is supposed to take place in Chiredzi displacing villagers in the area has raised questions as people speculate that there might infighting in the ruling party over the project, Newsday reports.<\/p>\n<p>Farai Musikavanhu commented on the project on behalf of Denford Masiya (Chiredzi East, Zanu PF) and Callisto Gwanetsa (Chiredzi South, Zanu PF) which drew the attention of the media and that of a former Zanu PF stalwart Walter Musembi who commented on Nick Mangwana\u2019s Tweet sharing Musikavanhu\u2019s comment and said:<\/p>\n<p>Strange that being from a different constituency, he (Musikavanhu), supports the eviction of voters for his rivals, Gwanetsa and Masiya. Factional politics is at play.<\/p>\n<p>Musikavanhu\u2019s comments that consultations were done before the government made a decision to displace villagers and that the villagers will benefit from the project came before the government decided to amend the SI they had released before to add a clause that said:<\/p>\n<p>Any person occupying or using the land specified in the schedule, is ordered to depart permanently with all of his or her property from the said land by the date of publication of this notice, unless he or she acquires rights of use or occupation to the said land in terms of section 9(1) of the Communal Land Act [Chapter 20:04]<\/p>\n<p>Reports that there might be some infighting in the ruling party have been circulating since time immemorial, with people speculating that there is bad blood between President Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga.<\/p>\n<p>More: Newsday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Farai Musikavanhu the Chiredzi West MP\u2019s comments on the controversial lucerne grass project which is supposed to take place in Chiredzi displacing villagers in the area has raised questions as people speculate that there might infighting in the ruling party over the project, Newsday reports. Farai Musikavanhu commented on the project on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,3473,3475,3474,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-36301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-chilonga-grass-project","14":"tag-farai-musikavanhu","15":"tag-lucerne-grass","16":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chiredzi West MP\u2019s Comments On The Chilonga Grass Project On Behalf Of The MPs For Chilonga Raises Eyebrows - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Farai Musikavanhu the Chiredzi West MP\u2019s comments on the controversial lucerne grass project which is supposed to take p ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chiredzi-west-mps-comments-on-the-chilonga-grass-project-on-behalf-of-the-mps-for-chilonga-raises-eyebrows\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chiredzi West MP\u2019s Comments On The Chilonga Grass Project On Behalf Of The MPs For Chilonga Raises Eyebrows\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Farai Musikavanhu the Chiredzi West MP\u2019s comments on the controversial lucerne grass project which is supposed to take p ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chiredzi-west-mps-comments-on-the-chilonga-grass-project-on-behalf-of-the-mps-for-chilonga-raises-eyebrows\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-10T12:50:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-03-10T12:13:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/img-6048b7e5d810f.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chiredzi-west-mps-comments-on-the-chilonga-grass-project-on-behalf-of-the-mps-for-chilonga-raises-eyebrows\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chiredzi-west-mps-comments-on-the-chilonga-grass-project-on-behalf-of-the-mps-for-chilonga-raises-eyebrows\",\"name\":\"Chiredzi West MP\u2019s Comments On The Chilonga Grass Project On Behalf Of The MPs For Chilonga Raises Eyebrows - 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