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Some settlers more equal than others
Zimbabwe Civil Education Trust (ZIMCET)
August 18, 2003

Back then when people were being resettled under the fast track resettlement program, most people questioned why resettled farmers were being cautioned about building permanent structures on their farms. The truth is now out for everyone to see, they could be evicted any time. Press reports on the eviction of settlers at Little England farm, demonstrate that the trend of chosen settlers replacing other settlers, even before the long awaited land reform audit is out, is not starting with settlers at Little England and neither will it end with them.

The Zimbabwe Civic Education Trust is concerned at the way that people are simply being taken for granted and moved from farms to suit the whims of other people all in the name of resettling favoured settlers. How can authorities start rejecting letters from other sources other than the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement, if back then they were accepted and if people were resettled on their strength?

ZIMCET therefore calls on the responsible authorities to expedite the land reform audit so as to expose those who were corruptly resettled, before more people are rendered landless by an exercise that is bent on favouring some well-connected people.

As an organisation whose core business is the education for peace, rights, justice and development ZIMCET is worried about the future of the bulk of the 1000 settlers set to vacate Little England in the next 13 days. A colonial injustice cannot be corrected by creating another.

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