Land barons ride on Zanu PF campaign

SUSPECTED Zanu PF-linked land barons have invaded large tracts of land in Harare and Chitungwiza, where they are doling out residential stands to desperate home-seekers as a vote-buying gimmick ahead of the August 23 harmonised elections.

NewsDay has heard that some of the land barons in Retreat, Waterfalls, had pegged residential stands on land reserved for the Harare-Chitungwiza railway line as well as social amenities such as schools, with home-seekers being asked to pay between US$10 and US$20 as allocation fee.

An organisation known as Mapani Youth Housing Co-operative Society, with alleged links to Zanu PF, has been fingered in the illegal land sales.

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