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Munyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Correspondent
Traditional leaders in the Midlands Province have called on Government to identify land to resettle illegal settlers in Chemagora.

Speaking during a National Peace and Reconciliation Commission outreach programme in Gweru last week, National Chiefs Council member and Senator Chief Ngungubane said there was need to resolve the Chemagora land dispute amicably and as a matter of urgency.

Chief Ngungubane said the Chemagora land dispute has become one of the main sources of conflict in the province.

“One of the major sources of conflict in the province are land disputes. In this province we have the Chemagora land dispute. We feel that for that issue to be resolved amicably, Government should identify a new piece of land to relocate those illegal settlers. We acknowledge that those settlers invaded those black owned farms but we also need to treat them as human beings.

“They were recently evicted from those farms in an inhuman way. Our norms and values are our own constitution as Africans and when someone is wrong we seek restorative justice. Retributive justice is exotic to us as Africans,” he said.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently set up an inter-ministerial committee to look into the Chemagora issue.