Flamboyant Harare businessman, Philip Chiyangwa is involved in a legal wrangle over land ownership with occupants of a sub-division of Stoneridge farm and Nyarungu Estate also know as Eyecourt township in Harare South constituency. The only constituency in Harare were Zanu Pf won in the 2008 parliamentary elections. But this Housing Co-operative is a group of people who invaded farms in 2000….they did not buy this land from anyone, in fact they are also to blame for the current economic problems in Zimbabwe today.
The land dispute which began in 2007 resurfaced after Chiyangwa’s Pinnacle Property Holdings Private Limited and Jetmaster Properties Private Limited published a public notice in the local press claiming that Amalish Investements Managing Director Mr Rickson Musarurwa and other leaders of four housing co-operatives were selling stands on land which belongs to Philp Chiyangwa’s company.
Members of the Simon Muzenda Housing Co-operative have been occupying the land since 2000 and only got information that Chiyangwa’s company (Pinacle Properies) was claiming ownership of the land in 2007.
Chiyangwa is reported to have title deeds to the disputed land which were attained in 2007. Members of the co-operatives have been paying money towards their residential stands, it has been reported that among those affected are at least 89 Zimbabwe Broadcasting (ZBC) employees….does this include Reuben Barwe I wonder.
But how did these two groups get ownership to this land? The dispute land was invaded by so called ‘war veterans’, when Mugabe allowed them to resettle themselves were ever they wanted. They should not have been there in the first place….the land does not belong to them. The same applies to Chiyangwa, like many Zanu Pf politicians….he has taken over land that does not belong to him. The land should be state land, and should be taken over by the government (what is Tsvangirai and MDC doing)……unless both sides can prove from whom they bought the land. Why should certain groups of people get the privilege of giving themselves state land?
If those co-operative people lose their money…who cares? They invaded the land in question and are part of the bigger problem we are having in Zimbabwe today. Because of them Zimbabwe is in economic troubles.
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