Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 15:17:04 -0700
To: "Zimbabwe Crisis Mailing List":;
From: Zimbabwe Crisis
Subject: ZimCrisis#110 -- List of Farms to be Seized in Matabeleland North
Hi everyone,
As I have mentioned in at least one recent message, I have had reports from Matabeleland that more farms were to be seized in that area. While the farms on the list below seem to be part of the 160 (20 per province) that most people know about, the fact is that most of the farms on this list were not even on the list of 804 that has previously been published ( http://www.niner.net/zimcrisis/033.html ).
Between my comments and the actual memo listing the farms is a message from my correspondent in Matabeleland. Their farm is on the list yet is not, as they say below, on the gazetted list of 804. This list came as a complete surprise and shock to them.
I do not have the original copy of the memo, and the information below was retyped from a faxed copy. Some of the numbers in the "hectares" column don't make complete sense, but all twenty farms are listed. To see the columns line-up properly you will need to view this message in a fixed font (such as Times New Roman) as opposed to the proportional font (Arial) that most e-mail programmes use these days. Please check your programme's documentation for instructions.
If anyone out there can shed any light on how farms that are not on the original list of 804 can be put on a "fast track" list, I'd love to hear the explanation.
Craig
Message from my correspondent dated July 14th:
Dear Craig
So sorry about the letter last night. I was so upset. ZANU PF have said that they will be resettling the 160 farms which have not been contested this weekend. The farms have been acquired on willing seller basis. Many of these farmers have left their farms in order for the resettlement to go ahead. This new list came as a shock to us. We have not been on the 804 list and even though we have had squatters we have been told by Hunzvi's men that they would not touch our farm.
On Monday we were in the CFU offices and had a chat with Ben Zietsman. We both agreed that it seemed as though we were over the hump and that resettlement would continue in an orderly fashion. The CFU have offered the government another 200 odd farms.
Last night at 9:30 we had a phone call from our local farmers' association chairman to say that they'd just seen a new list and that we are on it. There are more farms in our area on the list and only 1 was on the original 804 list. The government will use section 8 whereby they can issue us with the notice of acquisition and with immediate effect the squatters have the right to the whole farm. They may not, however, come within the security fence area until we have left.
This is all to take place this weekend. I hear rumblings that these orders have come from Obert Mpofu. He was the ZANU PF candidate in this area and he lost to the MDC. He is the one who ordered Martin Olds to be killed. He has offered squatters farmers' heads if they wished to have it. He has issued many death threats. Most of our death threats have come from Hunzvi or his office. Since elections we have been on red alert each and every weekend. Last weekend we fetched 60 odd MDC youths to come and play football on the farm as Hunzvi was in the area once more and once more we were to be targeted. Hunzvi never turned up and most of our squatters ran away only to return on Monday in force.
Will this ever end? There is a farmers' meeting this afternoon in Bulawayo. Richard has gone into town to attend the meeting. I decided to stay on the farm and just keep an eye on everything. As soon as I have more information about this list and a copy of the list I will forward it to you.
Memorandum listing twenty farms to be seized in Matabeleland North:
LAN/30/2
THE PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATOR
MATABELELAND NORTH PROVINCE
P.O. BOX 1496
BULAWAYO 4 JULY, 2000
THE SECRETARY FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND NATIONAL HOUSING; CAUSEWAY
RE; IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ACCELERATED 9 FAST TRACK LAND REFORM AND RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMME
Your minute LAN dated 28th June 2000 refers.
Please find below the names of twenty farms identified in Matabeleland North Province for the accelerated (Fast Track) Land Reform and Resettlement Programme.
a) BUBI DISTRICT
NAME OF FARM HECTARES OWNER
Crescens Bubi Block 14 571 4776 Cenmat (Pvt) Limited
Redlands Valley 4 349 4981
Gourlays Block
Gravesend Extension E E Machinney
Horse Shoe farm 1 013 " " "
Braema Block 13 444 6135 J Joubert and sons
Hamilton Farm 2 567 1978 " "
b) UMGUZA DISTRICT
Mindoro Farm 2 581 Mindoro Ranches
Merryland Farm 2 454 Kennebek Farm
Cowston Block 12 661 03 Cowston Block
Taradale 2 621 Mindoro Ranches
Sandstone Creek 2 425 55 " " "
Matabeleland Concession 6 678 R H Greaves
c) HWANGE DISTRICT
Railway Farm 53 2 431 4548 Arthur Bowen
" " " 50 1 924 6468 Wankie Motors
Bingwa Farm 990 Mr Hewlet
Deka Bridge Farm 2 569,5591 Wankie Motors
Riverside Farm 3 547,9712 Charles Davy (correct owner is D Littleton)
Hankano Farm 8 051,0727 M P Bennie
Gwaai Ranch 8 498,24 G Oosthuizen
The Province would like to express its sincere apologies for the delay in submitting. This was due to the unavailability of State Land Office personnel who were away on other business and the untimely death of the Province's Chief Agricultural Extension Officer
F.B.R. MBILA
FOR; PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATOR
MATABELELAND NORTH PROVINCE
FBR/hm
Craig
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- Movement for Democratic Change -- http://www.in2zw.com/mdc
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To: "Zimbabwe Crisis Mailing List":;
From: Zimbabwe Crisis
Subject: ZimCrisis#110 -- List of Farms to be Seized in Matabeleland North
Hi everyone,
As I have mentioned in at least one recent message, I have had reports from Matabeleland that more farms were to be seized in that area. While the farms on the list below seem to be part of the 160 (20 per province) that most people know about, the fact is that most of the farms on this list were not even on the list of 804 that has previously been published ( http://www.niner.net/zimcrisis/033.html ).
Between my comments and the actual memo listing the farms is a message from my correspondent in Matabeleland. Their farm is on the list yet is not, as they say below, on the gazetted list of 804. This list came as a complete surprise and shock to them.
I do not have the original copy of the memo, and the information below was retyped from a faxed copy. Some of the numbers in the "hectares" column don't make complete sense, but all twenty farms are listed. To see the columns line-up properly you will need to view this message in a fixed font (such as Times New Roman) as opposed to the proportional font (Arial) that most e-mail programmes use these days. Please check your programme's documentation for instructions.
If anyone out there can shed any light on how farms that are not on the original list of 804 can be put on a "fast track" list, I'd love to hear the explanation.
Craig
Message from my correspondent dated July 14th:
Dear Craig
So sorry about the letter last night. I was so upset. ZANU PF have said that they will be resettling the 160 farms which have not been contested this weekend. The farms have been acquired on willing seller basis. Many of these farmers have left their farms in order for the resettlement to go ahead. This new list came as a shock to us. We have not been on the 804 list and even though we have had squatters we have been told by Hunzvi's men that they would not touch our farm.
On Monday we were in the CFU offices and had a chat with Ben Zietsman. We both agreed that it seemed as though we were over the hump and that resettlement would continue in an orderly fashion. The CFU have offered the government another 200 odd farms.
Last night at 9:30 we had a phone call from our local farmers' association chairman to say that they'd just seen a new list and that we are on it. There are more farms in our area on the list and only 1 was on the original 804 list. The government will use section 8 whereby they can issue us with the notice of acquisition and with immediate effect the squatters have the right to the whole farm. They may not, however, come within the security fence area until we have left.
This is all to take place this weekend. I hear rumblings that these orders have come from Obert Mpofu. He was the ZANU PF candidate in this area and he lost to the MDC. He is the one who ordered Martin Olds to be killed. He has offered squatters farmers' heads if they wished to have it. He has issued many death threats. Most of our death threats have come from Hunzvi or his office. Since elections we have been on red alert each and every weekend. Last weekend we fetched 60 odd MDC youths to come and play football on the farm as Hunzvi was in the area once more and once more we were to be targeted. Hunzvi never turned up and most of our squatters ran away only to return on Monday in force.
Will this ever end? There is a farmers' meeting this afternoon in Bulawayo. Richard has gone into town to attend the meeting. I decided to stay on the farm and just keep an eye on everything. As soon as I have more information about this list and a copy of the list I will forward it to you.
Memorandum listing twenty farms to be seized in Matabeleland North:
LAN/30/2
THE PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATOR
MATABELELAND NORTH PROVINCE
P.O. BOX 1496
BULAWAYO 4 JULY, 2000
THE SECRETARY FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND NATIONAL HOUSING; CAUSEWAY
RE; IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ACCELERATED 9 FAST TRACK LAND REFORM AND RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMME
Your minute LAN dated 28th June 2000 refers.
Please find below the names of twenty farms identified in Matabeleland North Province for the accelerated (Fast Track) Land Reform and Resettlement Programme.
a) BUBI DISTRICT
NAME OF FARM HECTARES OWNER
Crescens Bubi Block 14 571 4776 Cenmat (Pvt) Limited
Redlands Valley 4 349 4981
Gourlays Block
Gravesend Extension E E Machinney
Horse Shoe farm 1 013 " " "
Braema Block 13 444 6135 J Joubert and sons
Hamilton Farm 2 567 1978 " "
b) UMGUZA DISTRICT
Mindoro Farm 2 581 Mindoro Ranches
Merryland Farm 2 454 Kennebek Farm
Cowston Block 12 661 03 Cowston Block
Taradale 2 621 Mindoro Ranches
Sandstone Creek 2 425 55 " " "
Matabeleland Concession 6 678 R H Greaves
c) HWANGE DISTRICT
Railway Farm 53 2 431 4548 Arthur Bowen
" " " 50 1 924 6468 Wankie Motors
Bingwa Farm 990 Mr Hewlet
Deka Bridge Farm 2 569,5591 Wankie Motors
Riverside Farm 3 547,9712 Charles Davy (correct owner is D Littleton)
Hankano Farm 8 051,0727 M P Bennie
Gwaai Ranch 8 498,24 G Oosthuizen
The Province would like to express its sincere apologies for the delay in submitting. This was due to the unavailability of State Land Office personnel who were away on other business and the untimely death of the Province's Chief Agricultural Extension Officer
F.B.R. MBILA
FOR; PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATOR
MATABELELAND NORTH PROVINCE
FBR/hm
Craig
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Brief list of helpful sites on the issue:
- Zimbabwe Crisis mailing list archives -- http://www.niner.net/zimcrisis
- Comprehensive news updates -- http://www.1freespace.com/beetee
- Offers of and requests for help for Zimbabweans -- http://pub9.ezboard.com/boffersofhelp
- Commercial Farmers' Union -- http://www.mweb.co.zw/cfu
- Movement for Democratic Change -- http://www.in2zw.com/mdc
- Zimbabwe Democracy Trust -- http://www.zimbabwedemocracytrust.org
- BSAP Pursuit of Zimbabwean Criminals -- http://www.bsaphq.f9.co.uk
