FIVE villagers in Mangwe who drove their cattle to graze on her farm have been ordered to pay $1500 to the owner of the farmer Clara Nondo who is a public service commissioner.
Plumtree magistrate, Livard Philemon heard that a total of 50 head of cattle belonging to villagers at neighbouring homesteads consumed grass that was meant for her own herd.
Nondo, the complainant said of the 50 beasts that illegally grazed on her farm in Mangwe District, two belonged to Lennos Ndlovu and Tatenda Ncube while 10 belonged to Norman Dliwayo, 12 belonged to Robert Ncube and 16 belonged to Brian Ndlovu.
Philemon ordered the five farmers to each pay $37,50 per animal that strayed into Nondo’s field.
The five farmers who admitted that their cattle had strayed into Nondo’s field during a pre-hearing trial disputed that their animals grazed on her grass.
They accused the woman of exaggerating the number of cattle that had strayed into her farm. The farmers said Nondo’s farm was not secured with a perimeter fence.
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