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Minister Mzembi is on record expressing his reservations over the people chosen to partner the farmers.
He argues the farmers should partner communities to ensure broad-based empowerment of the people.
Cde Chinotimba last night confirmed meeting Minister Mzembi yesterday.
“We met the minister over the issue and we had a very fruitful meeting,” he said.
The war veteran, who was leading a delegation of two members from the Zimbabwe Liberation War Veterans Association, declined to shed more light on the meeting.
However, Zimbabwe Tourism Authority chief executive Mr Karikoga Kaseke said the minister was responding to a written request to meet Cde Chinotimba.
“Cde Chinotimba recently wrote to the minister requesting the meeting. Although tempers were initially high we managed to give him our position which he readily accepted,” he said.
Mr Kaseke said while it took Cde Chinotimba time to understand their call for broad-based empowerment of the people in the end he did.
“Cde Chinotimba actually acknowledged that poaching was rampant in the conservancy and Minister Mzembi’s concerns on the same issue were justified.
“While we are waiting for a resolution from the Presidium, I will be travelling to the conservancy with Cde Chinotimba to get first hand information on his allegations,” Mr Kaseke said.
He said tourism was based on wildlife hence his organisation’s concerns over reports of poaching in the Save Valley Conservancy.
Online Reporter