adminThe affected farmers settled at the farm between 2000 and 2002 at the peak of the fast track resettlement.
Up to now, the farmers have not received offer letters or leases.
A housing co-operative, Nehanda, has already pegged stands on the farm and has since informed the farmers to vacate the area. Mrs Emelda Pfundira, who has been on the farm for 10 years, said she had nowhere to go.
“I have been producing food on this farm and was waiting for offer letters, but now I am told to leave the area,” she said.
“I do not have anywhere to go and I appeal to Government to assist us in getting land for farming.”
The farmers said they have been farming peacefully for the past decade with others delivering their grain to the Grain Marketing Board.
“Farming had become our mainstay and we were sending our children to school using the proceeds from the farm,” another farmer said.
“We do not know what will happen to us the day the co-operative decides to evict us.” The farmer said he can no longer plan his agricultural activities properly as he is afraid he may be displaced anytime.
A former farm worker at Rainham Farm said she decided to settle at the farm when the white farmer left in 2000.
“We were settled here and although we did not get any documents, this farm had become our home,” she said.
“We thought one day we were going to be properly resettled only to see surveyors coming to peg residential stands.”
Ms Jimu said some farmers have since left the farm and returned to their rural homes.
The farmers said they were willing to be relocated to any area where they could continue with their agricultural activities.
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