{"id":71093,"date":"2022-12-18T19:02:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/nick-mangwana-zanu-pf-mp-business-mogul-evict-villagers-from-chegutu-farms-report"},"modified":"2022-12-18T21:11:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T19:11:38","slug":"nick-mangwana-zanu-pf-mp-business-mogul-evict-villagers-from-chegutu-farms-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/nick-mangwana-zanu-pf-mp-business-mogul-evict-villagers-from-chegutu-farms-report","title":{"rendered":"Nick Mangwana, ZANU PF MP, Business Mogul Evict Villagers From Chegutu Farms \u2013 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The secretary for Information, <b>Nick Mangwana<\/b>, is being accused of displacing villagers at two farms in <b>Chegutu<\/b> under controversial circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Mangwana teamed up with ZANU PF Mhondoro-Mubaira legislator Freddy Kapuya and business mogul Lionel Mhlanga to displace the villagers in Thorndyke and Hopewell farms in Chegutu East.<\/p>\n<p>The Standard reports that Mhlanga, who is Bravura\u2019s southern African countries\u2019 representative, is already in the process of building a mansion and a road leading to his newfound property.<\/p>\n<p>Bravura Holdings, a company owned by Nigerian billionaire, Benedict Peters, is into mining in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Freddy Kapuya, who is also a former <b>Redcliff<\/b> mayor, was allegedly given 350 hectares of land while Mangwana and Mhlanga have 100 hectares each respectively, affected villagers told The Standard.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that hundreds of villagers who are occupying part of Thorndyke and Hopewell farms have been served with eviction orders and directed to stop developments pending eviction.<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese mining company, Global Platinum Resources, is also set to occupy part of the farms for platinum mining and recently visited the area for some assessments, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The Zimbabwe Land and Agrarian Network (ZLAN), a membership-based local network of farmers and researchers, has since written a letter to the government seeking clarification on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>ZLAN also wrote a letter to the Chegutu Rural District Council requesting an official position on reports that Global Platinum Resources has interests in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the villagers are said to have occupied the land at the height of land invasions in the early 2 000s.<\/p>\n<p>One of the victims, a 66-year-old woman, is said to have suffered a stroke and is bedridden after she was given only 48 hours to leave.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The secretary for Information, Nick Mangwana, is being accused of displacing villagers at two farms in Chegutu under controversial circumstances. Mangwana teamed up with ZANU PF Mhondoro-Mubaira legislator Freddy Kapuya and business mogul Lionel Mhlanga to displace the villagers in Thorndyke and Hopewell farms in Chegutu East. The Standard reports that Mhlanga, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":71092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[1493,2189,2805,1637,6568,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-71093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-files","9":"tag-africa-press","10":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","11":"tag-chegutu","12":"tag-nick-mangwana","13":"tag-redcliff","14":"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>Nick Mangwana, ZANU PF MP, Business Mogul Evict Villagers From Chegutu Farms \u2013 Report - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The secretary for Information, Nick Mangwana, is being accused of displacing villagers at two farms in Chegutu ...\" \/>\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\/nick-mangwana-zanu-pf-mp-business-mogul-evict-villagers-from-chegutu-farms-report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nick Mangwana, ZANU PF MP, Business Mogul Evict Villagers From Chegutu Farms \u2013 Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The secretary for Information, Nick Mangwana, is being accused of displacing villagers at two farms in Chegutu ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/nick-mangwana-zanu-pf-mp-business-mogul-evict-villagers-from-chegutu-farms-report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-18T17:02:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-18T19:11:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671377543.09.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\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\/nick-mangwana-zanu-pf-mp-business-mogul-evict-villagers-from-chegutu-farms-report\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/nick-mangwana-zanu-pf-mp-business-mogul-evict-villagers-from-chegutu-farms-report\",\"name\":\"Nick Mangwana, ZANU PF MP, Business Mogul Evict Villagers From Chegutu Farms \u2013 Report - 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