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Phone shops demolished in Southeast Zimbabwe town of Chiredzi
Carole Gombakomba,
Voice of America (VOA)
August 01, 2005
http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/Zimbabwe/2005-08-01-voa57.cfm
Operation Murambatsvina
has resurfaced in the southeastern town of Chiredzi, where police are
said to have destroyed seven phone shops. Sources told VOA's Studio 7
for Zimbabwe that the only phone shop still open belongs to a ruling party
city councilor.
Elsewhere, some former
residents of the Porta Farm settlement west of Harare have been dumped
at abandoned farms in the capital region. One woman, asking that her name
not be used, told reporter Carole Gombakomba that authorities took her
and others to an abandoned farm where they live in empty tobacco barns.
She must walk for
two hours to reach the Harare-Bulawayo road for transport to Harare, from
which she spoke with Ms. Gombakomba on Monday.
Other former Porta
Farm residents taken to Hopely Farm on the road from Harare to the satellite
town of Chitungwiza, were still not receiving any humanitarian assistance,
according to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, a civic group.
The organization said
authorities were present at Hopely Farm over the past weekend to assess
conditions and register about a thousand displaced persons there.
Reporter Carole Gombakomba
of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe asked attorney Otto Saki of the Zimbabwe
Lawyers for Human Rights for an update on Hopely Farm.
Elsewhere, families
forcibly resettled from Harare to the rural areas of Mashonaland East
say their life there is very difficult. Men say they are unable to provide
for their families because of their limited access to homes and jobs in
the rural district. Such breadwinners say their only chance for survival
is to return to the city.
Correspondent Thomas
Chiripasi of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbawe reports.
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