KARORI Farm update

KARORI Farm update

2. DEVONIA Farm

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Brigadier Mujaji has stolen four tractors and all our seedbeds. He has now planted our seedlings in lands we prepared and fertilized.

Our workers have been denied access to food now for two weeks. In desperation they tried to access the premises but the soldiers opened fire and shot one worker in the hand by ricochet. We have tried to move our crops and equipment off the farm but we are now being denied this by the army. The lorry drivers were threatened with death by the soldiers if they attempted to move any of our goods. The police have supported the fact that we can move our crops and equipment as it belongs to me and they have tried to send staff to the scene to help but the soldiers have threatened them and they left waiting further instruction from their superiors. We are waiting to see now what happens. It is one thing taking land, but another stealing crops, equipment, and shooting innocent people through force of arms by our own national army.

Charles Lock - Headlands

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2. DEVONIA Farm

Latest tactics is to add more land onto his allocation and threatened to
take the farm equipment on "his" side of the fence he is to erect. This
is the pump house and main transformer

He had a bunch of Vapostori yesterday showing them the pump house in great detail.

We hear he is allocating plots to these guys and more.. as he is not a farmer

The Milling shed is progressing at Hunters front gate next to the main transformer

We got a letter signed at Marondera yesterday to confirm all the transformers were in our name.

Other issues are in the pipe line, remain Clandestine at this moment

Well the weekend saw more sand for the mill by Shumba and he has put in heaps of poles for the fence on the side of the strip road where he has decided to claim more land !

He still controls the pump house and the river pump which has been wasting huge amounts of water under his control or Rather lack of control

We have not done any land prep for the coming season as we are unsure what is happening on the farm

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Well the weekend saw more sand for the mill by Shumba and he has put in haeps of poles for the fence on the side of the strip road where he has decided to claim more land !

He still controls the pump house and the river pump which has been wasting huge ammounts of water unfder his control or Rather lack of control

We have not done any land prep for the coming season as we are unsure what is happening on the farm

Dennis Lapham - Enterprise