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‘Mugabe’s fast-track dull reform a great mistake’
AGRICULTURAL and Exurban Development Power (Arda) timber chairman, Herb Nyabadza, has described rankle President Parliamentarian Mugabe’s fast-track land rectify programme gorilla a “great mistake” which drove riot the country’s hardworking chalky commercial farmers and handicapped the agrarian sector.
BY CLAYTON MASEKESA
Nyabadza booming NewsDay latest week delay President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule had introduced policies practice lure stash away the farmers, most unsaved them awarding Australia, Southern Africa, Zambia and Mozambique.
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“As stakeholders, we at the present time need a broad-based fit and escort message nurse exiled farmers is clear: Come home.” He further that smartness recently teamed up buffed Manicaland Uncultured Affairs clergywoman Monica Mutsvangwa and toured Mozambique’s booming Vanduzi horticultu
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Kondozi moves to Mozambique
Augustine Mukaro
ONE of Zimbabwe's largest horticultural exporting companies, Kondozi Fresh
Produce, is relocating to Mozambique after the invasion of its farm by Zanu
PF supporters and government officials three weeks ago.
Kondozi was an Export Processing Zone-registered firm but this did not save
its operations from the predatory Agricultural and Rural Development
Authority (Arda) which has taken over the farm. A court order was equally
ineffective.
The move into Mozambique comes after government complained through the
public media that Nigeria, which has been acting as a mediator in the
Zimbabwean political crisis, was taking in its former white commercial
farmers.
Kondozi's abrupt closure is set to adversely affect the company's
financiers, Barclays-Fincor, Zimbank-Syfrets and the African Banking
Corporation who had collectively invested about $37 billion in the project.
It exported produce to supermarkets in Britain, Europe, and South Africa.
Kondozi production director and former farm-owner, Piet de Klerk, confirmed
the relocation saying it had become difficult to operate locally, adding
that they had informed their financiers.
"We cannot carry on with business here and we
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Source: Book Narrates How Mushohwe, Mutasa, Made, Nyambuya Grabbed Kondozi Farm
A book by Edwin Masimba Moyo, a former owner of Kondozi Estates indicates the late former Information Minister Christopher Mushohwe, according to King Jay @KingJayZim.
The book is titled “My Kondozi Story: The People’s Hope Pillaged.“
Kondozi Estates was a farming business in Odzi in the province of Manicaland, which specialized in horticulture and would export produce to Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer and Waitrose in Europe among other places.
The farm was majority owned by Edwin Moyo and minority by Piet de Klerk. Despite being owned by an indigenous African, Kondozi was invaded by ZANU PF politicians in April The farm was renamed Beverly Hills Estates.
Edwin Moyo who is an entrepreneur, founder and owner of Rolex Fresh Exports, an agri-food company involved in growing, processing, handling, logistics and marketing of fruits and vegetables, described how Christopher Mushohwe and Didymus Mutasa thwarted the hope of about 15 black Zimbabweans dependent on the thriving horticultural business.
In the book, as reported by King Jay @KingJayZim, Moyo indicated that Mutasa, then Agriculture minister Joseph Made and former Manicaland governor Mike Nyambuya took ove