The most virulent reaction to the land audit report has come from the publisher of the Sunday Mirror Ibbo Mandaza who was named as having acquired five farms in Matebeleland and as trying to evict 95 landless families from the property...
For example the report of those violating the 'one man one farm' rule reads like a list of the ZANU-PF elite and their allies: Information Minister Moyo presidential sister Sabina Mugabe; former Higher Education Minister Ignatius Chombo; Defence Minister Sydney Sekeremayi; the Air Force Commander Air Marshal Perence Shiri; Provincial Governors Eliot Manyika Obert Mpofu Peter Chanetsa Josia Hungwe; newspaper publishers Ibbo Mandaza and Mtumwa Mawere; and Barclays Bank Chief Executive Alex Jongwe...
The Daily Mirror and its sister the Sunday Mirror are owned and run by Ibbo Mandaza a ZANU partisan-turned-businessman who owns the Southern Africa Publishing House together with Joyce Kazembe an academic researcher...