{"id":44986,"date":"2021-08-14T17:20:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=44986"},"modified":"2021-08-14T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T14:26:31","slug":"minister-in-another-land-seizure-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/minister-in-another-land-seizure-storm","title":{"rendered":"Minister In Another Land Seizure Storm"},"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>Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo has been sucked in yet another farm seizure storm as it emerged he allegedly grabbed a black-owned farm and gave it out to members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) and the Zimbabwe National Army.<\/p>\n<p>The Zimbabwe Independent reports that Moyo, in 2016, grabbed Plot 12 and 16 Honey Bird Kop Farm owned by a black entrepreneur and settled two CIO operatives in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Four army personnel and three Lands ministry officials were also given pieces of land as a reward for rubber-stamping the take-over of the black-owned farm.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations come when Moyo is accused of grabbing Kershelmar Farms Private Limited, better known as Esidakeni Farm, from Osisa executive director and international human rights lawyer Siphosami Malunga.<\/p>\n<p>Moyo is also said to have allocated Esidakeni to senior intelligence and ruling party senior officials.<\/p>\n<p>Honey Bird Kop Farm is owned by ex-Zipra combatant John Gazi, which makes it illegal for the government to seize land from a local black person, according to a previous High Court judgment.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview this week, Gazi implicated Moyo as the brains behind his farm grab. Gazi, who has been on the property for the past 16 years, said:<\/p>\n<p>Matabeleland North Minister of State Richard Moyo led the invasion of my farm in November 2015.<\/p>\n<p>They settled CIOs and army people on my farm in 2016. Recently, they put more CIOs (June 2021) on the farm. They were allocated plot 12 and 16.<\/p>\n<p>Moyo targeted it because it attracts more money as a land baron venture. Now it is overpopulated and is more like a residential stand than a farm.<\/p>\n<p>Honey Bird Kop, which measures 1 046 hectares, has great potential for both game and cattle ranching. It has two dams and six boreholes.<\/p>\n<p>The farm is located 40km north of Bulawayo Metropolitan Province.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated April 19, 2016, seen by the Independent this week, the former Zipra combatant was told that the provincial land committee \u201cbelieves that you do not deserve land from a government which you wish to topple. Therefore, the provincial land committee recommends that you be removed from the list of beneficiaries at subdivision A of Honey Bird Kop Farm.<\/p>\n<p>However, Moyo vehemently denied the accusations saying the farm was gazetted by the government in 2000. We don\u2019t go around and take farms from other blacks. He added:<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that people like Gazi are fronts of white people. He was a front of the white man we took the farm from. He was actually in my office two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>He also said Gazi has the right to make a formal complaint with the Lands ministry in Harare if he has issues regarding the farm.<\/p>\n<p>More: The Standard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo has been sucked in yet another farm seizure storm as it emerged he allegedly grabbed a black-owned farm and gave it out to members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) and the Zimbabwe National Army. The Zimbabwe Independent reports that Moyo, in 2016, grabbed Plot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":44985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,1990,2010,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-44986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-ministry-of-lands-agriculture-water-and-rural-resettlement","14":"tag-richard-moyo","15":"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>Minister In Another Land Seizure Storm - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo has been sucked in yet another farm seizure storm as it emer ...\" \/>\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\/minister-in-another-land-seizure-storm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister In Another Land Seizure Storm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo has been sucked in yet another farm seizure storm as it emer ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/minister-in-another-land-seizure-storm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-14T15:20:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-14T14:26:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/img-6117d280a34d5.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/minister-in-another-land-seizure-storm\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/minister-in-another-land-seizure-storm\",\"name\":\"Minister In Another Land Seizure Storm - 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