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Remembrance Gwaradzimba, the son of a Zanu-PF official, arrived to evict the owner of a farm in Zimbabwe renowned for its coffee.\u00a0<\/span>
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A video clip of a senior Zanu-PF official\u2019s son arriving to evict the owner of a well-known farm has sent jitters through Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

Remembrance Gwaradzimba, son of provincial minister Ellen Gwaradzimba, went to FarFell Coffee Estate accompanied by police and armed with an eviction notice issued by the ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Settlements.<\/p>\n

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The farm is run by retired Swiss banker Richard Le Vieux, a reputable farmer who has been in the business of exporting coffee, avocados and macadamia nuts for the past 30 years.<\/p>\n

Mbudzana (\u201cJunior\u201d) demanded to be shown \u201chis land\u201d by the farmer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have got this offer letter. Do you respect it? It has 229 hectares. Show me the 229 hectares, show me my land according to the offer letter. How is that difficult? I will stay wherever I want to stay in my piece of land,\u201d said Mbudzana in a dialogue that was recorded on video, with Le Vieux who kept asking questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The 229 hectares that Mbudzana wants has an almost ripe crop on it. If he takes over the land he is expected to simply harvest. His \u201coffer letter\u201d to take over the farm was issued on January 10. FarFell Coffee Estate is contesting the matter in the high court.<\/p>\n

Le Vieux said he challenged the legality of the notice but declined to comment about the matter as it is sub judice.\u00a0\u201cMy lawyers are handling the matter so there is nothing to talk about. All I want is for my world-renowned coffee brand to be saved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The \u201ceviction team\u201d went to the farm last Sunday accompanied by a police chief from Chipinge: inspector Dohwa. The policeman said the farmer\u2019s refusal to let them onto the land as it was a resting day was disrespectful.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually thought you would respect us as police officers, and when we come, we normally don\u2019t just come to have fun,\u201d said Dohwa.<\/p>\n

Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Settlements minister Perence Shiri said in 2018 that farm invasions were a thing of the past and \u201clawlessness and anarchy\u201d would not be allowed to prevail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At the time government had resolved to compensate farmers that were displaced during a land reform program that saw at least 4,000 white commercial farmers displaced. Some ended up in countries such as Zambia and Nigeria, strengthening the backbone of those countries\u2019 agrarian sectors.<\/p>\n

At the height of the farm invasions, government took some farms that were initially protected by Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (Bippas) between governments. Government records show that 197 out of 258 farms, measuring 977,000 hectares, under Bippa were acquired for resettlement.<\/p>\n

Countries such as South Africa, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Malaysia and Switzerland have land under Bippas.<\/p>\n

Farm evictions dented Harare\u2019s international image for investors. Finance minister professor Mthuli Ncube said recently that government was finalising compensation packages for white former land owners.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have made progress in compensating the white farmers and the farmers themselves have also managed to come up with a figure on what they want to be compensated.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn our side as government, we have done our evaluations using the white farmers\u2019 methodology for nine provinces on the value of improvements,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Government requires at least US $9bn for the process but put a mere US $53m aside in the 2019 budget.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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