Reserve Bank Worker Christmas Farm Invasion
Posted on December 26, 2009 | Category: Politics; Business, Sport
Harare – A senior Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) official
on Thursday invaded a farm belonging to a Rusape based white commercial
farmer saying she wants to enjoy Christmas at the property.
The President of the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU), Deon Theron, told
Radio VOP that the RBZ Head of Finance Winnkie Mushipe gave Raymond
Finaughty three hours to pack his things and leave his farm.
Mushipe heads the RBZ Bank financing arm. Before that she headed FISCORP
Private Limited which was in charge of its quasi-fiscal operations.
“He called me this morning and told me that his life is in danger and is
packing his things to leave his farm. He said there are people who were
camped at the farm and told him to leave to make way for Dhliwayo who should
be at the farm by tomorrow,” said Theron.
Theron said Finaughty who owns Mhanda farm in Rusape is a tobacco and
chicken farmer and is a South African farmer whose farm is part of the
Bilateral Protection of Investment Agreement (BIPPA).
“He has 40 hectares under tobacco and 11 chickens which he has not been able
to look after over the last three days because of the threats that he has
been receiving,” said Theron.
This latest invasion marks the return of a new wave of farm invasions just a
day after President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his
Deputy Arthur Mutambara expressed satisfaction with the political climate
prevailing in the country at the moment.
In September another Deputy Reserve Bank Governor Edward Mashiringwani
attempted to take over Friedall farm owned by Louis Fick.
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December 30th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Personal friends in Rusape are -as of the past hour- undergoing the same situation. A call from relatives indicate police and a crowd of people are at the gate of the farm, and the intimidation has started. We can only hold our collective breath…