{"id":43195,"date":"2021-07-08T17:15:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=43195"},"modified":"2021-07-08T16:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T14:46:01","slug":"minister-sucked-into-messy-malunga-farm-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/minister-sucked-into-messy-malunga-farm-grab","title":{"rendered":"Minister Sucked Into Messy Malunga Farm Grab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><b>By Bulawayo Correspondent<\/b> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Matebeleland North Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Richard Moyo has been sucked into OSISA director Siphosami Malunga\u2019s Nyamandlovu farm grab saga.<\/p>\n<p>About three weeks ago, the Ministry of Lands and Agriculture repossessed the thriving 553 hactare property from Malunga and his co- owner Zephaniah Dhlamini<\/p>\n<p>The repossessed farm was allocated to Zanu PF supporter Dumisani Madzivanyati.<\/p>\n<p>Both Dhlamini and Madzivanyati are lecturers at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST).<\/p>\n<p>Madzivanyati on Wednesday allegedly assaulted Dhlamini during a violent dispute over the ownership of the farm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hold Richard Moyo (Matabeleland North Provincial minister) and those he is working with criminally liable. We will now have to defend ourselves against physical attacks too,\u201d tweeted Malunga in reference to Dhlamini\u2019s assault.<\/p>\n<p>Malunga who is the son to the late national hero Sydney Malunga accused Moyo of being behind his farm\u2019s take over.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused Zanu PF politburo member Obert Mpofu Zanu PF provincial chairman , Gatsha Mazithulela and Deputy Director General of CIO of allocating the property to CIO operatives and their relatives and other cronies.<\/p>\n<p>Malunga says they had planted vegetables on large swaths of the farm which they bought four years ago. He claims the seizure is a retribution by President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s regime for his human rights advocacy.<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. By Bulawayo Correspondent &#8211; Matebeleland North Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Richard Moyo has been sucked into OSISA director Siphosami Malunga\u2019s Nyamandlovu farm grab saga. About three weeks ago, the Ministry of Lands and Agriculture repossessed the thriving 553 hactare property from Malunga and his co- owner Zephaniah Dhlamini [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":["post-43195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minister Sucked Into Messy Malunga Farm Grab - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Bulawayo Correspondent - Matebeleland North Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Richard M ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/minister-sucked-into-messy-malunga-farm-grab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister Sucked Into Messy Malunga Farm Grab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Bulawayo Correspondent - 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