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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>By Alois Vinga<\/b> – MDC Alliance is calling on Zimbabweans to boycott Dendairy (Pvt) Limited products to protest the company\u2019s bid to dislodge some 12 500 Chilonga villagers from their Chiredzi ancestral land to make way for a government sanctioned grass project by the under-fire firm.<\/p>\n

The development comes shortly after the opposition party challenged the \u201cunconstitutional\u201d displacement of the villagers to pave way for the 10 000 hectare Lucerne grass project by the private company.<\/p>\n

Speaking to NewZimbabwe.com Thursday, MDC Alliance deputy spokesperson, Clifford Hlatshwayo said the biggest win for Zimbabweans would be to see their compatriots being spared from the displacements.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not just a campaign, it concerns people\u2019s life issues and we have to stand together to achieve this.<\/p>\n

\u201cDendairy must abandon that project in Chilonga and look for another area to grow grass. You cannot remove people and replace them with grass,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The MDC Alliance official urged the Zanu PF led government to look for alternative land since the country has huge tracts of underutilised land.<\/p>\n

\u201cMDC Alliance shall work with the community and all stakeholders to pursue this agenda for the people of Chilonga.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will employ a number of constitutional measures and approaches to stop these Zanu PF planned evictions. We will stop at nothing, together we will achieve it,\u201d Hlatshwayo said.<\/p>\n

Clifford Hlatshwayo<\/b><\/p>\n

He added that the MDC Alliance leadership was already engaging the affected community in line with the party\u2019s social democratic values of justice, solidarity and freedom.<\/p>\n

The campaign is running under the #SaveChilonga, #Boycott Dendairy and envisages millions of Zimbabweans snubbing the company\u2019s products.<\/p>\n

The development comes after the party\u2019s local government secretary, Sesel Zvidzai argued the evictions were arbitrary and illegal as Section 71(3) of the Constitution did not allow for the deprivation of property for commercial purposes that are not beneficial to the community.<\/p>\n

MDC Alliance has accused government of pursuing policies which impoverished the poor while violating their livelihoods, cultural practices, dignity, land rights and indigenous knowledge systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. By Alois Vinga – MDC Alliance is calling on Zimbabweans to boycott Dendairy (Pvt) Limited products to protest the company\u2019s bid to dislodge some 12 500 Chilonga villagers from their Chiredzi ancestral land to make way for a government sanctioned grass project by the under-fire firm. 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