FRESH waves of farm and mine invasions have hit the country with Zanu PF youths and Women’s League members fighting to take over a farm and a mine.
BY MOSES MATENGA
NewsDay yesterday witnessed the invasion of a farm in Caledonia by a group of Zanu PF youths who camped at the property and invited people in need of stands to register.
The youths erected a billboard written “Nhaka Yemadzitateguru Edu Housing Consortium” and blocked anyone they did not know from entering.
The farm is owned by a white farmer whose identity could not be immediately established.
In Guruve, a group of Zanu PF women slept at Eureka Gold Mine declaring they had taken over from the owners for, among other things, not employing youths.
“We have observed that for the past 15 years, Guruve Rural District Council has not benefited anything from the operations of Eureka Gold Mine. The mine has not been employing local youths because it has not been operational,” the women said in a petition to Zanu PF and the Ministry of Mines.
The Guruve Women in Mining said they was appealing to the Zanu PF party leadership in the province to engage the Ministry of Mines to grant them a licence to take over the mine.
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The more than 50 women were joined by youths yesterday afternoon vowing to take over the mine, but were later dispersed after police intervention.
Chairman of Delta Mine Zimbabwe, owners of Eureka Mine, Charlemagne Chimbangu, confirmed the invasion.
“I confirm receiving their petition and we are still looking at it trying to understand its meaning. The women left in the afternoon on the order of the police,” he said.
Chimbangu said although he understood the demonstration was a democratic right, it was worrying that sleeping over was now a security issue at the mine.
