Description: Rosywood Mahemu Estate is a multifaceted, ethical farm, which specialises in potatoes, peas, cattle ranging, dairy cattle, bananas and avocados.
Rosywood Mahemu Estate has a unique history, one that stretches a couple of generations! It started with an ambitious young man, who always thought football was his greatest talent until he realized farming was his passion. Elias Munhundiripo Mahemu-Makandeni, bought the farm from a good friend, a local white farmer. Due to Elias’ nature of his job as Field Manager for Tanganda Tea Estate, he could not register the farm in his name as this would have been a conflict of interest. He decided to register in th
Elias made it a point every time he visited the farm to take his 9-year-old son (Shandirayi, known as Shanda) with him. This would prove critical and the way Rosywood Mahemu Estate is shaped today. On a fateful day, 3rd of April 1987, Elias Munhundiripo Makandeni was shot on a normal day in his office, whilst doing the payroll for his staff. Unfortunately life at the farm changed and everything started to go downhill, as work could not continue due to all the children beging below the age of 12. The pinnacl
A few people tried to settle on the farm but without any success and they would just leave without being evicted. In 2014, Shandirayi, the second oldest son who is based in UK, started to engage the Mwoyoweshumba sons with clear intentions of fulling his father’s dreams, as he now shares the same dreams.