Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police were forced to fire warning shots to disperse a determined group from the Mthwakazi Republican Party which was demonstrating in front of the Bulawayo Central Police Station today.
The group started singing peacefully, demanding to know the location in which their leader, Mqondisi Moyo is being held.
Moyo was reportedly abducted in the middle of last night by unknown people suspected to be state security agents.
The demonstrating became progressively violent as police failed to respond with any information and started burning tyres and throwing stones at the station.
A number of demonstrators were arrested after police fired warning shots to disperse the crowd.
According to a statement by MRP, the abduction of Moyo happened after the group helped a commercial farmer who is being evicted from his farm to resist the eviction.
Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP)
08 March 2021
*MR BRIAN DAVIES DESERVES OUR PROTECTION – Mthwakazi Republic Party*
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Cde Mqondisi Moyo led a delegation of National Executive members, Women’s League members, youths and journalists to Ntabazinduna farm popularly known as (Tabas Induna Farm) at the request of Chief Khayisa and the community of Ntabazinduna farm owned by Mr Brian and Carol Davies who are white Zimbabweans and third generation farmers.
The purpose of the delegation’s visit was to evict an intruder who forcefully grabbed the Safari Lodge built on top of the N’tabazinduna Hill which is within the farm.
According to the court papers, copies of which are in our possession, the High Court of Zimbabwe has ruled several times against Mr Floyd Ambrose the invader. Of late, Mr Ambrose came to the lodge and broke padlocks at the gates and went on to remove Mr Davies property, throwing it outside the gates and further ordered farm employees out of their work stations, claiming that he was the owner of the farm and the lodge thereof.
Today the people’s revolutionary party (MRP) delegation tried to negotiate and hear Ambrose’ own side of the story. The man became violent and fired two gunshots before he and his aides fled. MRP was left with no choice but to reverse the activity by removing the invader’s property leaving it outside, and returning Mr Davies property in place. This was done peacefully and part of the activity was live on Mr Ezra Tshisa Sibanda’s Facebook page.
Mr Floyd later came back in the company of his brother Mohadi’s in-law and anti riot police, CIO and known Bulawayo Central CID Law and Order officers as well as hired thugs carrying axes and machetes as well as guns and tried to intimidate the ever ready MRP officials. Unfortunately on Floyd’s part, MRP had none of it, and the President showed Floyd’s armed team the High Court ruling ordering the intruder to leave the occupied premises, as well as the Chief’s letters while they had nothing tangible legalising their claim to the property.
The farm was purchased in 1953 by Carol’s grandfather Jack Parsons, and he developed it over the years into a productive commercial farm together with his son Peter Parsons a very well-known and respected farmer and businessman. He was chairman of Colcom, the commercial subsidiary of the National Pig Breeders’ Co-op, which was set up in 1943 and was a pioneer of the pig production industry in Zimbabwe.
The Parsons/Davies family were the largest pig producer in the country, with over 12 000 pigs, a large cattle herd, a commercial crocodile farm and a well-established and very successful photographic safari operation.
With the permission of the late Paramount Chief Khayisa Ndiweni, in 1992 they built Chiefs lodge on top of Ntabazinduna Hill, a famous historical site that is important in the Ndebele culture. Chief Ndiweni named the Davies/Parsons family custodians of Ntabazinduna Hill and they promised to preserve it. The family employed more than 150 staff who, together with their families, were wholly reliant on income generated from the farming and photographic safari operations.
The employees and their families – more than 900 people in total – were all housed on the farm. The family built a school for the employees’ children, which is still supported by the Davies family. The now farm invader Mr Floyd Ambrose was employed as a Safari Guide by the family and when the tourism hit a slump found him a job with Wild Horizons in Victoria Falls.
At the height of farm invasions, Tabas Farm was identified and listed for resettlement by Government. The Davies Family spent many years trying to get it delisted, but despite these efforts it was sliced up into many plots. The Ministry of Lands assured the family verbally that they could remain in their homestead, but due to the economics and hindrances to farming operations caused by the resettled people, most of which are from outside Matabeleland, production on a commercial scale was no longer possible or viable.
In 2014, because of sentimental reasons, the ashes of the Davies ancestors were spread on the hill and in recognition of their promise to the late Chief Khayisa Ndiweni, the Davies Family negotiated with Chief’s sons notably the incumbent Paramount Chief, Nhlanhla Felix Ndiweni.
This is the reason why Chief Khayisa and the community feel compelled to protect the vulnerable family, that is a victim of political patronage. We are reliable informed that Floyd Ambrose’s brother is married to one of Zimbabwe’s former Vice-President and currently ZANU PF politburo member and one of the two Vice Presidents of Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa in their party, Kembo Mohadi and he is using that to intimidate the Davies family and the community of Ntabazinduna.
Mthwakazi Republic Party will remain resolute in fighting economic destruction activities and human rights violation of Mthwakazi people.
MRP FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN OUR LIFE TIME
MRP INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
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