Families that are over 400 were left homeless after they were evicted from Badminton Farm in Nyamandlovu by the Sheriff of the High Court.
Villagers said that Chief Deli claimed that he had jurisdiction to settle them on the farm in 2011.
The families have since filed a court application at the Bulawayo High Court seeking an order stopping Badminton Block Company (Pvt) Ltd from evicting them from the farm until the Minister of Land and Rural Resettlement Douglas Mombeshora had secured alternative land for them.
Villagers allege that Badminton Block Company did not serve them with court papers, case number HC938/15, until they saw the Sheriff of the High Court came to execute his duty.
Badminton Block Company, in its opposing papers through lawyers Webb, Low and Barry, said the land occupied by the applicants was its private land held under deed of transfer number 5096/90.
The company argued that Chief Deli had no lawful authority to allocate the land.
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