Exiled former minister Saviour Kasukuwere has filed an urgent chamber application with the High Court challenging Lands Minister Perrance Shiri's decision to withdraw his offer letter for his Mazowe farm without giving him a chance to file a response.

Kasukuwere said he was shocked to learn that a withdrawal letter had been served at his Concorpia Farm in Mazowe at a time he was failing to submit his answering affidavit due to the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown.

"This is an urgent chamber for interim relief that pending the return date of this matter, the respondent be interdicted from interfering with my farming operations at remainder of Concorpia Farm in the Mazowe District of Mashonaland Central province measuring approximately 535,94 hectares," he said through his lawyers.

"I also seek an interim order that pending the return date, the respondent shall not enforce the withdrawal of the offer letter in my favour or do anything to interfere with my farming operations on the farm."

The exiled minister challenged the laid down basis for withdrawal and also requested information regarding "why downsizing for re-planning process was directed at his farm, which is fully operational as opposed to other farms which are lying idle around the country".