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Evicted Villagers Allege Inhumane Treatment By Police

1 year agoMon, 19 Feb 2024 16:03:50 GMT
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Evicted Villagers Allege Inhumane Treatment By Police

Villagers in Matabeleland South Province have complained of being mistreated by the police following their arrest for alleged illegal occupation of State land.

The villagers were victims of the Government’s infamous blitz to evict “illegal” settlers from State land amid accusations the exercise was not meant to restore order but to benefit a connected and powerful few.

Critics say the evictions mirror those conducted on locals by white settlers when they seized land from blacks and parcelled it among themselves over a century ago.

Speaking to NewsDay, Elizabeth Ndlovu (91), from Nyandeni village, said they were detained at a police camp overnight and denied access to food and water. She said:

I am not feeling well, I am staying with my grandchildren who are taking care of me through proceeds from artisanal mining.

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We were bundled into a police truck to Gwanda Police Station last week, where I slept on an empty stomach.

We appeared in court the following day, and we were remanded out of custody until February 23.

We were called again for a meeting here at Nyandeni business centre by the police, we arrived at 8 AM and the police came in the afternoon.

ZANU PF Nyandeni district chairperson Bongani Mlilo said they had occupied the land since 1998.

He said it was worrisome that he was being treated like a second-class citizen in his country of birth.

Mlilo accused the police of disrespect after the cops reportedly used food aid as a bait before arresting them. He said:

People came in numbers following the announcement that there was a food distribution exercise.

We were, however, told that we were under arrest for being illegal settlers.

We have been paying taxes since 1998 for our land that we are occupying since then until 2016.

We were told to stop paying taxes with the hope that our stay was going to be regularised by the lands officer in Gwanda, but to our surprise, he resurfaced last week after having disappeared for several years.

He came with the police to arrest us because we have been deemed to be squatters on our own land.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is now being surrounded by the wrong people who are advising him wrong things.

We are not happy with this eviction exercise. It is a way of destroying the party (ZANU PF)…

We have written several letters petitioning the lands office to regularise our stay because we want peace, our parents are now old.

We are the ones who are now taking care of them by utilising these pieces of land to be productive.

We supply Gwanda town with vegetables and meat. Our children are at schools here, once we move out, all these schools will be closed.

Female victims who spoke to NewsDay narrated how those in the menstrual period suffered while in police cells. One of the victims said:

It was as if we were in hell. We did not have sanitary pads and one of the villagers received a message that her child had been raped after she was left alone at home.

Another one who runs a poultry project nearly lost more than 500 chickens because there was no one taking care of them since she was in custody.

There are some who have chronic diseases, but ended up defaulting treatment because they had left their daily dosages at home.

We had several ECD [early childhood development] children who failed to go to school during the period as they were also detained.

I had to seek the services of a lawyer to intervene in their situation.

The victims’ lawyer Mitchel Chigova of TJ Mabhikwa and Partners Law Firm said some of the arrested villagers were not homeowners while others had some paperwork. Said Chigova:

The matter is not yet before any specific magistrate. The State proceeded by way of summons as the State papers were not in order.

Villagers were called to meetings in their various villages and on arrival, they were loaded onto police trucks and taken to the station.

Some of those arrested were not homeowners, while others have some paperwork (albeit insufficient).

Villagers were summoned back to court on February 23, 26 to 29. Due to the large number of accused persons, there was a need to reduce the number coming to court on any day.

For instance, those arrested from Nyandeni were 180. Managing such a large number at once is challenging.

The lawyer said the affected villagers were from Insindi and Sherborne Farm in West Nicholson.

In Masvingo Province, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) intervened and stopped the eviction of villagers last week.

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58 Comments

R G · 1 year ago
Politics thrive on the poor and vulnerable.Next these desperates will be frog marched to support a third term in office.Mukavavhundutsira vanovhunduka ka
Zooma · 1 year ago
You pay a big price for brealinh the law
Fugu pfe pfe pfeeee · 1 year ago
Gara zviya njanji yedu ine ma bend manhani.Minister wangu aripi.Hazivi kuti mangani.
Muchasvinura · 1 year ago
Zimba will never be a colony agaim
Chibaby che Zanu · 1 year ago
Zimbabwe will never be a colony again
Muchasvinura · 1 year ago
Tinotonga - tigotonga.Muka ubike doro.Idyai murivooo
Chibaby che Zanu · 1 year ago
ED pfe pfee pfeee pfeeee pfeeeee pfeeeeee
Fugu · 1 year ago
Ndiyani akambovaka achiputsa.Zvichapera riini zvelupunza izvi
Fugi pfee mu chinaby cheZanu · 1 year ago
Pasi nema sanctions Pasi nemhanduuuuu.We have the army,the police.We determine who mines gold.We are everything
Muchasvinura · 1 year ago
Nyika inovakwa nekupazwa nevene vayo
Tina · 1 year ago
Upenyu whose musango, hazviperi mushe vacgatorerana vakadzi o
Mwenemutapa · 1 year ago
These demolitions are callous, sacrilegious and unimaginable in independent Zimbabwe! Where is our empathy and humaneness? Human habitat should not be demolished instantaneously. Where is our moral campus as Zimbabweans? Why? What has gone wrong? Have we suddenly realised that they have to move and move now? Why can’t we give them time to pack up and go? What about their crops and livestock? Even if they go, where are they going? To the authorities, please stop this. We cannot have such callousness on sons and daughters of the soil. They have black blood, blood which mingled with the soil in the brutal First and Second Chimurenga. This blood makes a forlorn cry, a wistful harbinger of bad things come.
zanupf · 1 year ago
baba mlilo Lina lavela ngaphi ngini manje ngapha emapulazini siyaxotsha abantu abe njengani buyelani ngini lapho lasukha khona asifuni ubumbulu
Official a · 1 year ago
Ko ku domboshava kwa nyamande akusi kudzingwa vanhu here
XXX · 1 year ago
I suspect that the ZANU PF Government wants to do something big with this land they are evicting people from. I lost my vote for nothing. Next time I know who to vote for. [ ZANU PF CHIWORORO ]. EHE ICHO !!!!!
Tave · 1 year ago
Hes Rudo
worried citizen · 1 year ago
muchati eke henyu mamboti madii ndivo.preside venyu vamakada kah kkkkk
zenzo · 1 year ago
Mwari harambe anyerere . one day God will send Moses to take out the Israelites out of Egypt .ngatichemei tinetariro .
Cv · 1 year ago
When we say zanu is a problem in Zimbabwe 45years has destroyed Zimbabwe, then you hear people like fugu ,rudo, ana chi baby che zanu supporting evil with cheap propaganda, ZANU must be banned in Zimbabwe for our feature
Bhbhh · 1 year ago
Haa I hv never see anything like this thing party Zanu Pf why is it that the don't respect human rights. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭Shame I wish that God could send anything to kill all of them in a day.
Fuhrer · 1 year ago
Tisu maPfeerorist acho. ED huchest ✊✊✊
Dambudzo · 1 year ago
Muchinyanya kungonditi pfe pfe hamusati matanga
.... · 1 year ago
Eviction by nature is inhumane. While haphazard settlements are bad what zanupf is doing is cruel. You cannot leave people to fend for themselves by the roadside. But that's the true nature of zanupf,there is no humanity in zanupf
Tawaz · 1 year ago
Ngavaite Tsepete tsepete musango imomo vachiti ED huchii
tsepete tsepete · 1 year ago
there's no smooth eviction especially in the third world
chomujiki · 1 year ago
Muno**** mazipenzi ekumapurazi ndimi maiti tsepeteka,saka zvaendwa,Dai vachirova maziguvi iwawa.
chomujiki · 1 year ago
Muno**** mazipenzi ekumapurazi ndimi maiti tsepeteka,saka zvaendwa,Dai vachirova maziguvi iwawa.
Yoyoyo · 1 year ago
😁😁 Vachayita madhooodhi musago💩💩 and also Wiwi muzvigubhu🍺🍻 kana kuti mumahuswa
Hantie makavhota. · 1 year ago
Mavotes manyama. Ndizvo zvazvinoita. Chicken Inn yamakadya😂🎶
nhubu 🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🤸🤸🤸🤸 · 1 year ago
🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🤸🤸🤸🤸
Kyl · 1 year ago
Vanhu vemumisha ngavaite Ed Pfeee futi. Zvanaka nekuti apa vasiya pfumvudza dziya nefodya dziya dzavaiitira Ed Pfeee...vaaaanya
zulu boy · 1 year ago
kkkkkkkkk yeah
Ian Smith · 1 year ago
Mugabe was prophetic when he told Arthur Mutambara that people shall fight over land because the distribution was not done properly. We shall be watching from the terraces watching those pfeerest mauling each other.I will bring them more chicken inn and Pepsi for refreshments in case they need to eat and drink.
💅Rudo · 1 year ago
Sorry zvavo, saka vachangoita bónde pachena zvee. So much sĕx in the open
Boss Boss · 1 year ago
🐃Yes but only manheru chete kuma 11pm or makuseni na 1am
Kyl · 1 year ago
Ungarare musango ere zvekut paunenge uchiita **** unenge uchiita kut ari panext pako akukuona achiguarder vana aite **** kupedzisira yangova rape yega yega
aleck · 1 year ago
Munomama maiti Zanu chiwororo izvezvi hamuchina pekugara mamaforeigner muchiti opposition inotengesa nyika kuvarungu hezvo Zanu hakumamirarai .well done Zanu pf keep on the gud work
Ndini · 1 year ago
That's your own funeral you were enjoying whenED was campaigning
nhubu · 1 year ago
uuuuuuuummmmmm musadaro vanhu
🌀🌀🌀🌀 BLUE CYCLONE 💙 · 1 year ago
benefits ye chicken inn nepepis zvamaidya kuma campaigns
Rtgs · 1 year ago
The problem is some of these guys where selling land especially this guy called Bongani Mlilo he was charging people usd 400 on each stand, he is a thug hiding behind Zanu pf, he benefited a lot by Selling state land, he is supposed to be arrested
Manje Mucha ita sei · 1 year ago
the problem honestly you voted for the wrong side, but let it be a lesson that next time musanyeperwe muchi promiswa zvinu zvisiripo hanti ndimi maiti zvichafaya now see special imi from kumusha now see wat your brain washed minds have made you encounter. Am sorry I feel pit for your children but imi makazviitir menga takani let's do right pa ballot box now see matotorerwa ka. remember makaiti manje muchaita sei,makavotera vanhu now they are in parliament where are they now are they defending you kupusa kupusa asi apo makapusisa
Bob · 1 year ago
Dzingwai makavotera pasipo maiti makangwara haisati mataura chirungu ndiyo pfeee tsepete tsepete yamaireva
nhubu · 1 year ago
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
hsv · 1 year ago
@ Bob Nhasi makubvuma kuri zanu one vanhu vakaivhotera ka
Romnive investments · 1 year ago
Zvohwisa urombo ii
Natto · 1 year ago
itaika kuti ED pfeee
. · 1 year ago
ChiZanu chinobuda munhu kikiki. Ngavarambe vakashinga. ED fochoo.
Ziggy · 1 year ago
I'm a pfeerist. Next time I will be campaigning Kuti apinde mukomanaas Au has urged SADC to expedite the matter partnering to Zimbabwe disputed elections.Hazvperi zvakanaka for my Prez ED. .
PhD · 1 year ago
if ZANU PF wins an election it's not a prelude to lawlessness go back to your native reserves hapana asina kumusha kwaakabva
Dhadza · 1 year ago
Havavhotere Zanu avo.

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