Zimbabwe’s government plans to grant 750 hectares as the town is expanding, ultimately giving Chiredzi municipal status in the next three years.
The reconditioning of a fraction of the farm, i.e., Buffalo Range, will be starting soon. While the valley growing sugar cane lies at the center of cane fields at Estates Valley of Hippo is dealing with the lack of land expansion, poking the government to negotiate.
The municipal status of Chirdzi will toss the landmark’s level up to Masvingo City, Which is the only land of urban settlement that stands incredibly. Next to Chiredzi and Masvingo, now Mupandawana Town from Gutu is also aiming for municipal status.
According to Charles Muchatukwa, the Town Secretary of Chiredzi, local authorities of a feasibility study requested to develop ground of the territory aided by the government for land expansion.
Mr. Charles Muchatukwa commented that their target is to achieve the status of being municipal in the next three years. They are working on achievability criteria of the 750 hectares that they are expecting to expand so that maintenance of the territory can start as a forerunner to sell the lands that can be considered residential or commercial and industrial.
The town secretary showed gratitude to the government’s act of granting territory at the farm of Buffalo Range as he believes the expansion will open the doors for more cash investment. He said the Land piece of buffalo range would prove to be the thirst quencher for the ones aiming industrial and commercial stands.
The interest of sugar maker Tongaat Huletts Zimbabwe has opened the flow of interests in the estate property of Chiredzi as the Tongaat Huletts indicated his interests in bankrolling multi-million projects of house development. Not to forget that Tongaat is one of Zimbabwe’s pioneer private employers, with over twenty thousand contract employees and private directors.
Over 1000 native farmers benefited from the land rehabilitation program are interested in housing lands by availing the plots at Mkwasine, Triangle, and Hippo Valley.
