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*Madhuku Tells Mnangagwa To Abandon Colonial Mentality*
https://www.pindula.co.zw/2021/03/06/madhuku-tells-mnangagwa-to-abandon-colonial-mentality/?article

Renowned Harare-based constitutional law expert, Professor Lovemore Madhuku said that Statutory Instrument 50 of 2021, gazetted by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government last week, is unlawful, unconstitutional and reflect a “colonial mentality”.

The statutory instrument ordered more than 1 000 mainly Shangaan/Tsonga families in Chilonga, Chiredzi District, to “depart permanently” from the gazetted 6 000 land hectarage that would be used to farm lucerne grass for stock feed. Said Madhuku:

_That statutory instrument is unconstitutional; it is based on an unconstitutional understanding of the powers of government over communal land._

_The colonial mentality which is still reflected in the statute is that communal land belongs to the State, and is owned by the president._

_But that right which is given to the president is not equivalent to the ordinary right of ownership, which other people use._

_If you are an owner of land you can easily displace anyone or remove anyone, that is not the case._

_Communal land rights are somewhat special rights, communal people cannot be displaced merely at the whims of government._

Madhuku added that the government should have approached the High Court and state its reasons and then getting an appropriate order for those people to be moved to a different place.

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Dendairy, a dairy company owned by a white farmer, Neville Coetzee, who has links with President Emmerson Mnangagwa was allotted the land for its lucerne grass project.

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