Former President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire backs angry war veterans who fight President Emmerson Mnangagwa's land committee through courts. Businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei leads the group that wants private land ownership despite constitutional rules that give all farm property to the state. Veterans say the committee demands unclear payments from land reform beneficiaries with some people forced to pay 1.5 million US dollars. They want judges to stop the committee and let the official Land Commission handle all property matters. Mawarire calls committee members looters and land barons during his SABC Channel Africa interview.
The spokesperson claims Mnangagwa breaks constitutional promises about land ownership that came from the freedom struggle against private property control. He says the president acts like a land baron and ignores the constitution he promised to protect. War veterans must provide oversight because opposition parties cannot check government power anymore. Mawarire describes the committee as an illegal parallel structure that operates outside constitutional boundaries. Zimbabwe's constitution sections confirm state control over all agricultural land and cancel existing property titles.
The spokesperson claims Mnangagwa breaks constitutional promises about land ownership that came from the freedom struggle against private property control. He says the president acts like a land baron and ignores the constitution he promised to protect. War veterans must provide oversight because opposition parties cannot check government power anymore. Mawarire describes the committee as an illegal parallel structure that operates outside constitutional boundaries. Zimbabwe's constitution sections confirm state control over all agricultural land and cancel existing property titles.
