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Kenneth Matimaire
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Investigative Journalist | Media & Digital Rights Expert | MISA Zimbabwe Board Member |
Mutare, Zimbabwe Katılım Ekim 2011
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The Math isn’t mathing. How do you harass a man for having a passport expiring in 2035 because you don’t realize 2025 + 10 = 2035? Imagine being a passport guard but failing Grade 3 arithmetic. 🤡
President @CyrilRamaphosa said in #SONA2026 that lawlessness against foreign nationals won't be tolerated. Why are these vigilantes still playing Home Affairs on the streets?
It’s time to act. @HomeAffairsSA @Leon_Schreib @SAPoliceService unlawful "inspections" by illiterate mobs must end. 🇿🇦
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We might have been terrible visitors but damn we are good hosts. Despite our struggles, we won't let another African suffer in Zimbabwe. We do not have much but the little that we have will always be shared with fellow Africans.
I challenge anyone who has had a bad experience with ordinary Zimbabweans in Zimbabwe and I will wait 🙏🏾
Please note that this is about ordinary Zimbabweans in the streets, what the government or prominent individuals might have done to you before isn't part of this discussion.
@LeratoPillayZA we don't put Zimbabweans first, we put Africans first 😊
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Breaking: EU decided today to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe. The arms embargo will be extended for one year. The EU is ready to strenghten engagement on the basis of mutual interests. @GermanyInAfrica @GermanyDiplo @GERonAfrica #zimbabwe


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#Wolverhampton newspaper @ExpressandStar listed Zimbabwean footballer @MarshallMunetsi among 1 of the 6 key players likely to be the @Wolves new captain in the event @_nelsonsemedo_ leaves.
He has been described as a highly intelligent & well-liked player with the team at heart.



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#MnangagwaRautenbachFarmSagaDeepens
In a brazen and clear case of unjust enrichment, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close business associate Muller Conrad “Billy” Rautenbach is getting compensation from government in the form of a vast piece of land at the expense of local indigenous farmers for losing a property he never owned in the first place.
Government is now evicting
productive local farmers from Springs Farm in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East Province, and the neighbouring Stuhm Farm at the behest of Mnangagwa to facilitate an urban development project by Rautenbach, his close business crony, amid accusations by affected farmers of deception, fraud and corruption in the process.
Mnangagwa's administration is deeply steeped in corruption amid looting of public resources on an industrial scale.
In a betrayal of ex-combatants, Mnangagwa has approved the eviction of a number of local farmers, including war veterans and Zimbabwe’s reigning Young Farmer of the Year, to pave way for the project spearheaded by Rautenbach, a multimillionaire involved in transport, real estate, farming, mining and energy sectors, among other things.
The President has had close relations with Rautenbach for decades now, while the controversial tycoon leverages his political networks and connections for business purposes.
Mnangagwa ordered the eviction of the farmers from Springs and Stuhm to compensate Rautenbach for land he purportedly lost in Harare following a failed bid to evict a group of residents labelled as Zanu PF supporters from Aspindale Park.
In a letter dated 14 March 2025 written by Local Government minister Daniel Garwe to Rautenbach’s Marimba Residential Properties Limited, government offered the tycoon more than 1000 hectares of land as compensation for loss of a property he never legally owned.
This has left affected local farmers, who include the war veterans, in a state of dismay and disbelief.
Garwe writes:
"The Ministry of Local Government and Public Works is pleased to offer you Subdivision B of Springs measuring 671.7604 hectares and Remainder of Lot 2 of Stuhm inclusive of Lot 1 of Lot 2 of Stuhm and Lot 2 of Lot 2 of Stuhm measuring collectively 412.1091 hectares.
This offer forms as the total and final compensation for Stand 48 Aspindale Park Township of Subdivision A of Aspindale Park of Subdivision A and B of Lochnivar measuring 100.01 hectares and the Remaining Extent of Salisbury Park of Lochinvar measuring 80.7875 hectares which the Government allocated to housing cooperatives.
The Ministry shall facilitate title deeds processing once you accept the offer Government also expects simultaneous transfer of your properties to the State in order to bring the compensation issue to finality."
However, The NewsHawks has established Rautenbach is being compensated with farmland covering 1 000 hectares, spanning Springs Farm and the neighbouring Stuhm Farm, for 180 hectares of Aspindale Park land that did not even belong to him in the first place.
Details confirming Rautenbach had no title over the land that he is being compensated for emerged in a High Court ruling on 25 March 2019.
Two of Rautenbach’s companies, Marimba Residential Properties and Marimba Industrial Properties, claimed title over the Aspindale Park land, but at the material time in June 2018 the firms were not even registered with the Registrar of Companies.
The land in question was allocated to Joshua Nkomo Housing Co-operative by the government in 2004, authorising it to develop the property for residential purposes.
The housing co-operative and its affiliates, Wadzanai Housing Co-operative and Leopold Takawira Housing Co-operative, developed the residential stands and allocated them to beneficiaries who proceeded to build and occupy houses only for Rautenbach to emerge claiming ownership of the property.
The then Local Government minister July Moyo attempted, but failed to withdraw the Aspindale Park land from the cooperatives after the High Court intervention.
The High Court judgement by Justice Philda Muzofa read:
“It is ordered that the decision by First Respondent contained in the letter dated 5 March 2018 from the Secretary of Local Government Public Works and National Housing cancelling or withdrawing the right of Second Applicant to develop an urban housing scheme for its members on stand 48 Aspindale Park Township of subdivision a of Aspinidale Park of subdivision A and B of Lochinvar be and is hereby declared to be null and void and of no force and effect."
The First Applicant was Beata Emily Chigwedere, while the Second Applicant was Wadzanai Collective Farming Cooperative Society.
Despite the High Court ruling showing the land did not belong to Rautenbach, Mnangagwa surprisingly instructed the Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development Anxious Masuka, to compensate his associate for the purported loss of the land which he did not own with Springs and Stuhm farms, totalling over 1 000 hectares for only 180 hectares purportedly lost.
This is despite clear evidence showing Rautenbach did not own the land that he is now being compensated for in case of unjust enrichment.
The situation suggests fraud and deceit over the contested land ownership and compensation.
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In a letter to War veterans minister Monica Mavhunga, farmers from Springs Farm protested saying: “…. the land which Billy Rautenbach claims to have lost in Aspindale was never his. He failed to produce title deeds and consequently he lost the case in the High Court against housing cooperatives which had received offer letters to develop the land.
Furthermore, the Registrar of Companies spelt out that Marimba Properties and Industries was not even registered at that point in time. He (Rautenbach) cannot be compensated for something he never owned and lost.
To rub salt into the wounds, the farmers said they had invested in developing the farms with some of them having gone into joint ventures with investors who poured money into projects at Springs Farm.
Some of our farmers have entered into joint ventures with investors who have poured a lot of money. The government of Zimbabwe is party to these joint ventures, the current one was signed in 2019 and is to run for a period of 10 years till 2029."
The farmers said some of them built a school at the farm with permission from the government.
“We have invested in the farm from land clearing, expansion of irrigation systems, purchase of agricultural equipment and implements, livestock herds, building farm houses for employees, building modern farm sheds and building our own farm houses as we are resident farmers. For the past 23 years, we have resided at the farm, farming, investing and developing the farm on different fronts,” they said.
However, despite failing to secure the land allocated to the cooperatives in Aspindale, which he is now being compensated for, Rautenbach was able to secure 55 hectares of uncontested land and developed the Aspindale Park and Aspire Heights Development that was officially opened by Mnangagwa on 13 February 2023.
As the controversy over attempts to compensate Rautenbach for land that he never owned deepens, another storm is brewing over attempts to allocate Rautenbach more land on Stuhm Farm, which is adjacent to Springs Farm.
The land was sold to MPs during the eighth parliament under Goromonzi District in 2019.
All applications were received, handled and approved by the Local government ministry on 8 May 2019 with lease agreements completed on 15 May, a week later.
However, the land in question has now been allocated to the Rautenbach much to the shock and chagrin of the former legislators.
The resultant fight over the contested land is a litmus test for Mnangagwa and his government as it highlights property rights, rule of law, human rights, transparency, accountability and most importantly corruption in his government.
This is happening at a time when government has rolled out the Title Deeds programme, which authorities claim is meant to resolve title and ownership issues.
A war veteran from the Goromonzi area has said the ex-combatants are observing the situation to see if the Springs Farm and Stuhm Farm scandal will ignored amid indications that Mnangagwa is supporting land seizures from war veterans.
The war veteran, who requested anonymity, also said that it was shocking that after Independence and the country's controversial land reform programme under the late former president Robert Mugabe, the Mnangagwa administration is now reversing those gains to benefit his cronies ans a few politically well-connected individuals such as Rautenbach.
“It is painful that we suffered during the war and now we arw suffering wven more after independence. We are legally settled on the land, which we fought for after all, and we are heavily invested in it, but is now being taken away like that with the support of leaders. Rautenbach cannot have the whole of Zimbabwe and continue taking land away from those who don't have. This brazen abuse of power and corruption must end," said the war veteran.

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It's refreshing to see #UK based Zimbabwean footballer @MarshallMunetsi making headlines in Wolverhampton's local newspaper @ExpressandStar


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Do you know about Makurumure falls in Hwedza , it’s on the Ruzawi River bordering the Manicaland and Mash east
@Gary161718 @BarbaraRwodzi
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