Zanu PF Land Barons To Lose Land-Harare City Council
11 January 2016
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Harare city council says it is going to dispossess land from land barons  as a way of protecting the public from being fleeced of their hard earned cash.
There is a proliferation of shanty settlements in Harare emanating from land barons who are selling pieces of land to desperate home seekers on illegal sites.
Most of these housing cooperatives are controlled by the so called former liberation war fighters who give names of late prominent nationalists to these housing cooperatives.
As a result of the illegality of the settlements Harare city council has over the past two years been demolishing these structures leaving thousands in the open.
Harare city council spokesperson Michael Chideme said this year they are reclaiming  their mandate of issuing out stands.
“For the past twenty years we have not been servicing land but now we have realised that to feel the gap that has been created we are going to service land beginning this year and we have also realised that people were being cheated their money by unscrupulous management committees of housing cooperatives,” said Chideme .
“People have been paying money for the past ten years, fifteen years but with no meaningful development on the ground”.
Chideme said Harare city council is not going back on demolishing illegal structures.
“Demolitions are an action of last resort after being civil through giving people some warnings,”he said.