Two senior managers at Zambia’s largest Coffee producing company, Munali Coffee limited in Mazabuka have fled the company premises following death threats from former Mubuyu farms employees, who were evicted from the farmland by Court Bailiffs.
Company Finance Manager, Britten Gavin, confirmed the development to Mazabuka District Commissioner, Tyson Hamaamba, when he visited the company to investigate the eviction of former employees by the Bailiffs.
Mr Gavin said a human resource manager and Coffee Control marketing manager fled the premises on Thursday Night and their whereabouts are not yet known.
He said the two fled after some former employees turned violent against them.
But armed Police officers from Mazabuka and Nega Nega Police stations, who are still keeping vigil at the company premises, told ZANIS, there was no need for the managers to run away because maximum security measures had been put in place.
The Police, further, explained that the stoppage of the evictions greatly contributed to the peaceful atmosphere at the company.
On Thursday, Court Bailiffs from Lusaka swung into action and evicted former Mubuyu farms workers and dumped them across the Mazabuka- Kafue high way opposite the main entrance to Mubuyu farms.
ZANIS/ENDS/HC/SJK
chabulanda sana bane
They have made enough money,so its one way of running away.
How humiliating…. ~X(~X(
mwalachimona..give them back their ancestrol land…
mwefipuba imwe… :”>:”>
basa what is happening ino kai
bushe ababene ba mwisa ninshi bakwatila imisnagu shabushilu,when coming they come with full force forcing the people out of their ancestrol land,jst like ba Kipe yayo has said,nw th@ people are pissed they run away,stay there and face them bamabala imwe,alaa shaa!
Hello fellow bloggers!!
Does it maen that these people were given notice of eviction? truly speaking,you cant effect a court order of eviction at this time of the year when its rainy season. How do you expect people to survive on the Highway.Its highly irresponsible on the part of the Farm Managers for they could have waited for the dry season to effect the eviction and not this time.They deserve the threats.
WHICH NOTICE #7?I TELL U NO ONE HAS THE RITE TO REMOVE U FROM ANCESTROL LAND..IF U ONCE WENT TO SCHOOLU REMEMBER CHILEMBWE OF MALAWI SAID”STRIKE A BLOW AND DIE”THATS WHAT THOSE FOLKS NEED TO DO..
FIGHT FOR UR LAND..
MANO YAKUMUSHI TO GIVE LAND OVER NITE TO A MWISA.
INFACT SHARP SHOOTER I KNOW U BOI..SOON I’LL BE IN MOSKVA NGAWA FOLA.
Bushe ba GVT Tabalemona?tHEY SHOULD INTERVENE ANS ENSURE THERE I ORDER AND FAIRNESS IN THESE EVICTIONS.
Ileisa Lwisa boi tukachilisheko?.Boi chachine ati balitulindila B.C stipend? coz apa i have even started expanding my budget.
#10 shooter boi…bali lundako nomba…
2moro bakapala balebomba pa embassy ..am sure i’ll know b4 u when its coming..bcoz my former woman is working there…so wory not ..Kipe will keep u informed. :-?:-?:-?
UYO MWENSO OYO! TATA MAYO YE HAHAHAHAAHHAHA.. DO NOT FEAR THOZ WHO KILL THE BODY BUT CANNOT KILL THE SOUL….. SAYS THE BIBLE!
Kipe, for sure keep me posted on the issue. It has been long overdue.Chizalila.We Chalo Ukuwama!!
You can’t always rely on the police for law & order. Those managers better employ some bodyguards if they want to live long.
you can run but you cant hide,soon they will be captured.why run away if they know that the decision passed was a right one.
#5 naya…
chita yaya aba bantu bashupa mwe,kutanda bantu mumanda mu rain season.nchibi we.
our relatives in villages do not title deeds, that is why they sh!t on their heads by the so-called investors. i’m siding with the victims who were evicted from their ancestral lands. mwapya bakapala.
already nyama soya wants to bring a crooked investor, charles davy, to invest in kasaba bay. he and his clients call african workers n***ers and K***irs. it is there on google. just type in his name.
ONE – No more ‘foreign investors’
TWO – Automatic title deeds for anyone living and belonging to ‘customary land’ and every Zambian who has lived where they are living for 10 years or more.
THREE – Make these title deeds non-saleable for a good amount of time, so the people can get used to owning their own land and start investing in it.
Anyone agree?
From back in Februari in The Post:
Mwiimbu urges govt to aid Mubuyu Farms
By Mwala Kalaluka
Monday February 11, 2008
MONZE UPND member of parliament Jack Mwiimbu has said the livelihood of 24,000 people in Mazabuka will be adversely affected if the government does not stop the possible collapse of Mubuyu Farms. And Mwiimbu has described the recent conditions introduced by the Ministry of Sport, Youth and Child Development for people to access the Youth Development Fund (YDF) as stringent.
He said the British government was responsible enough to bail out Northern Rock when they realised that it was going under.
“Twenty-four thousand people in Mazabuka will be affected if this company is allowed to go under,” he said.
He specifically called on the Ministry of Finance and National Planning to see how they were going to intervene in the issue concerning Mubuyu Farm’s receivership.
scared of ukuponokwa ka ?you evicted them from their land what do you expect
The article is incomplete..it does not tell us the circumstances under which they were evicted and what the nationality of the managers are?
Munali coffee has it’s own website with a ‘about us page’:
munalicoffee /com
Nabaleya ba sakala. Baiba fyafula.
Land issues are senstive issues. This issue must be handled with cool heads. Tongas are passionate with their ancestral land.I’m not suprized by their reaction. The boers should think twice and compasate them on humanitary grounds, they will accept than to just throw them along the Mazabuka Kafue Road, where do they go from there?
The Chinda-Law Association is dissapointed with the behaviour of the ex mubuyu employees. Why threaten the lawful owners of the farm? Let them kill the bailiffs if they are really hurt.
Kamoona buyo mwabwala chakuchita!! There is a difference between zambia and zimbabwe.
Chinda-Law Association
Upcoming President. :o:o
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why should people tell lies barclays napsa zambeef and the 7 headed nitesh patel ABASH **==
Its those Managers are still missing and is the state police doing? Secondly who are those Managers? May we can help some how.