Zanu PF political Commissar and Harare South legislator Shadreck Mashayamombe says he has stopped the Harare City Council from demolishing 5000 houses at Dunstan Farm along the Airport road.

Harare City Council had already started demolishing the settlement after President Robert Mugabe’s directive recently that settlement was an eyesore.
Mashayamombe said he had managed to convince Harare City Council to “immediately” halt the demolitions while “we” move the settlers to StoneRidge Farm which is in the same constituency.
“This is a rainy season and there are a lot of diseases associated with it and we have said can you wait and give us ample time to finish the relocation process which has begun in earnest and then you can come and demolish the structures which will however be empty structures,” said Mashayamombe.
He said the new settlement they have found for the “illegal” settlers accommodates 1600 households. “We have so far managed to relocate close to 1 500 families against a target of 2000 families and we have managed to provide proper surveyed stands to these families,” he said.
At the weekend ZimEye.com passed through the “illegal” settlement and found hundreds of families in the open.
“Our children and our properties are outside, and we have nowhere to go because they just came here and destroyed our houses,” said a middle aged woman.
“The MP (Mashayamombe) came here and promised us that he was going to give us alternative accommodation but never returned,” shouted another unidentified man.
Another woman said only a handful of settlers were taken to StoneRidge, “those who have been relocated are made to share one stand imagine three families sharing one stand,” she said.
“We do not know if its proper healthwise to be settled where there is no water and no toilets,” another woman voiced out.