Also, I do not think that the previous owners of those once very productive farms ever had the government holding their hands financially and doling out freebies in order for them to conduct their farming practice. The previous farmers ran their farms like a business, took out bank loans and worked hard alongside their capable farm labourers.
Matonga is finding out, the hard way, that farming is not a walk in the park and also that misappropriating another man’s belongings as in his crops, housing, equipment, irrigation pipes and pumps and destroying the lives of many from those farms comes at a high price. He will reap what he has sown; destruction, violence, and theft. That is an unchangeable bible principle.
All Zanu (PF) members, whoever they are, should pay the previous farmer for all assets, livestock, crops and improvements on those farms and until they do they are all sitting in a very precarious position as far as justice and the Word of God goes. The bill for all this theft and plunder should go to Zanu (PF).
No wonder we are importing food to stave of hunger in Zimbabwe. It is a judgment! Simply put, those oranges belong to Mr Beattie and they are stolen oranges.
“Woe to those who devise iniquity and work out evil on their beds. At morning light they practice it because it is in the power of their hand. They covet fields and take them by violence. Also houses and seize them. So they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance. Therefore thus says the Lord, behold against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks.” Micah 2:1-3 – NM, Harare
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