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War vets evicted for supporting MDC
Written by Natasha Hove   
Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:04
BINDURA - Five war veterans and their families who were allocated plots under the Zanu (PF)'s 2000 land grab have been served with eviction notices because they now support the MDC.

The five, Fanuel Musona, Gift Lemon, Lyson Reason, Gift Mhembere and Lazarus Malunga, received plots at Foothills farm in Bindura in 2000.  For the past nine years they have built homes and families on the land. But they have now, together with fellow settlers around the country, become victims of Zanu (PF) zealots who accuse them of turning against the liberation war movement that allocated them the plots.

MDC Foothills chairman, Collen Langton, confirmed the eviction notices against
the five war veterans were issued after they were made to appear Chief
Negomo of Chiweshe village on charges of turning against President Mugabe's
Zanu (PF).

"Though they are still residing at the farm, the fate of whether they will be
evicted or not in is in the hands of the village court. The five are being
told that they will be evicted because they now support the MDC. They have
been told to go to the MDC to look for land," said Langton in an interview.

The charges against the five war veterans are believed to be led by the Zanu (PF) District Chairman Jacob Chiripanyanga for Foothills Farm. He refused to comment saying the issue was before the village courts.
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