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White farmer ‘takes over’ indigenous farmers’ land
BY JAIROS SAUNYAMA
INDIGENOUS A2 farmers outside Marondera are up in arms with a white farmer whom they accuse of encroaching onto their land saying he was re-possessing it.
Rodney Cormack, of Dombi Estates, lost a sizeable piece of land to black beneficiaries when the property was subdivided during the land reform programme.
A visit by
NewsDay to Dombi Farm revealed that Cormack had deployed heavy machinery on a section of the farm owned by Livison Manjengwa (45), leaving neighbouring farmers in panic mode.
Manjengwa said he was shocked by Cormack’s move, saying the latter boasted of immunity from powerful government officials.
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Marondera gets $13,5m devolution funds
Mashonaland East Correspondent
Marondera Municipality is working on stepping up service delivery and upgrading infrastructure after taking delivery of equipment sourced using devolution funds.
The council allocated was $8,1 million in 2019 and $5,4 million last year.
So far, council has purchased six water bowsers and a grader, installed three new modular water storage tanks and drilled 17 boreholes to mitigate water challenges in the town.
Speaking during the commissioning of devolution projects by Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister, Aplonia Munzverengwi in Marondera recently, council’s acting town clerk Mr Runashe Nyamuzihwa said they were also using devolution funds to rehabilitate rapid sand filters at Longlands Treatment Plant.