Gvt To Embark On ‘Operation Murambatsvina’, More Homes To Be Destroyed
19 August 2016
The Government has announced that it will be carrying out Operation Murambatsvina style of eviction and demolishing peoples homes under the guise of restoring law and order.
This is despite the fact that ever since the same government displaced some 800 000 people during the 2005 Operation Murambatsvina it has failed to bring back normalcy to the country’s housing sector.
Speaking in the state media government warned all people who it claims have illegally settled themselves in different areas around the country to immediately vacate state land and return to where they came from by September 6 this year.
The Minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement Dr Douglas Mombeshora says failure to heed the call by the illegal settlers will result in immediate eviction and prosecution.
Dr Mombeshora told the state media that illegal settlers who have occupied different farms acquired by government under the land reform initiative are compromising the programme.
Dr Mombeshora read the riot act to those who have resettled themselves in undesignated areas which include grazing lands and catchment areas ordering them to immediately vacate those places by September the 6th.
According to the ministry, the most affected areas are Mashonaland East, Mashonaland West and Mashonaland Central.
Dr Mombeshora read the riot act to those who have resettled themselves in undesignated areas which include grazing lands and catchment areas ordering them to immediately vacate those places by September the 6th.
According to the ministry, the most affected areas are Mashonaland East, Mashonaland West and Mashonaland Central.
The so called illegal settlers are said to have occupied farms such as Silver Oak, Gwala and Greenlands in Seke district, Ponderwa, Newlands and Little England in Makonde and Zvimba, Ratelan, Oban and Horseshoe in Shamva, Bindura and Guruve just to mention a few.