Many Zimbabweans have fallen into traps of buying land that is not supposed to be sold. They make developments on that particular piece of land and later on everything will be destroyed in a blink of an eye.
This has been happening for many times but we don’t learn our lessons. Many have lost huge amounts of money and have not been able to get it back. The Government has, on countless occasions, local authorities who are also allocating and selling State land in peri-urban areas.
The Buhera Rural district sold 40-hectares of communal land in Madzivanyika Village to Munda Trust fund for the construction of a boarding school. This land comprised of grazing land, communal farms and homesteads for more than thirty villagers.
This meant that these people were going to be evicted so the villagers sued the Rural district council and brought the matter to the High Court of Zimbabwe. The court nullified the agreement of sale between the Munda Trust Fund and the Buhera Rural Council based on Section 9 of the Communal Land Act.
“The application for a declaratory order be and is hereby granted. The agreement of sale of 40 hectares of communal land situated in the Madzivanyika Village, Chief Chitsunge Buhera, entered into between Munda Family Trust and Buhera Rural District Council dated March 23 2020 be and is hereby declared illegal and is accordingly cancelled.”
“The first and second respondents (Munda Family Trust and Mr Pomerai Munda) be and are hereby ordered not to evict any of the villagers residing at the 40 hectares of communal land,” said Justice Webster Chinamora.