Dollar Bubi started operating in 1997 and owns Dollar Bubi Block farm in Bubi and Mimosa farm in Nyamandlovu area. Both farms used to rear ostriches and crocodiles, and had horticultural production as well as cattle ranching before the land reform programme.
The company has a majority shareholding in PT Roya Ostrindo Zimbabwe, an Export Processing Zone tannery that produces ostrich meat and skins for export to the overseas market. Workers at the two farms claim the invaders were led by a known war veteran – Jetro Sibanda.
No comment could be obtained from Sibanda, as his whereabouts were unknown, or the owners of the farm. The company has already retrenched its entire workforce of 52 at Mimosa while an undisclosed number of workers have met the same fate at Dollar Bubi Block farm.
“We have all been served with retrenchment letters and the company is winding up its operations. Recently the company engaged contract workers to harvest the remaining horticultural produce,” said a worker who refused to be named for fear of victimisation.
According to a letter written to the Retrenchment Board by the company’s representative ,Francis Acantilado, the company and the employees have agreed on a total retrenchment package of $156,493 including statutory terminal benefits for the all the affected workers.
During its peak, Mimosa farm used to be home to more than 5,000 ostriches with 12,000 to 15,000 being slaughtered at the Cold Storage Company and the meat and skins being marketed locally and in Europe. The farm used to have over 4,000 crocodiles.
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Ok then and why should they be exempt from takeover & farm invasion by “war vets” as are all the white LEGALY owned & productive farms PRAY TELL…
What is good for one should also be good for all others….
This is sad and five steps backwards…..my heart bleeds for my country