Zindi has stripped the farm of farming equipment such as irrigation pipes, electrical appliances, tractors, ploughs and infrastructure for several buildings including the mansion farmhouse. She also vandalized infrastructure and equipment on the now defunct school-Valley Coffee Plantation School – that was located within the farm premises.
The school has been out of bounds since Zindi violently took over the farm from Lindsay Gild during the Zanu (PF)-staged farm invasions. Under the ownership of Gild, the farm was one of the best coffee, barley and tobacco producers in the country, but has since been reduced to a chicken-rearing project under Zindi. Investigations made by The Zimbabwean revealed that Zindi had totally ruined the farm, turning it into a no go area for the local villagers due to its heavy security presence.
Irate Burma Valley villagers advised the government to repossess the land and give it to the needy and landless farmers.
A lot of people do not have land, and some to not even have a place to stay yet Zindi is underutilizing the farm. If she can not use the whole farm why can the government not partition it and offer other able small scale farmers land? said villager. Zindi who is understood to be eyeing another state-of-art farm from the same area has been implicated in a series of fraud and corruption cases, which were squashed by Zanu (PF).
Zindi made headlines for the wrong reasons when she was deputy of the Mutare City Council Commission together with her Zanu (PF) chairman Fungai Chaeruka after they wrote to the ministry of local government at the end of their six-month term of office requesting that they be awarded an assortment of exit perks that included top of the range vehicles, commercial stands and terminal benefits for the six months they have been in office. She was also implicated in the 2004 multi-million dollar scandal when she was the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) board member.
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