“Mpofu has deployed armed people at the farm who are not allowing us to access the farm. We are under siege despite the fact that he was ordered by the High Court to leave the farm. We are seeing a situation where a senior ruling party is defying the courts. We have been locked out of the farm ."
A court in Bulawayo on Thursday gave Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu 24 hours to vacate a disputed farm in Matabeleland North or be removed by the police. Justice Evangelista Kabasa granted an application by the human rights advocate Siphosami Malunga and business partners Zephaniah Dhlamini and Charles Moyo who say they bought the…
Justice Bongani Ndlovu ordered the arrest of Dumisani Madzivanyati after he defied a previous eviction notice, which was executed recently by the deputy sherrif at the farm, previously known as Kershelmar Farms Private Limited, currently owned by Malunga, Charles Moyo and Zephaniah Dhlamini.