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ZCTU
statement on operation restore order
Zimbabwe
Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)
June 23, 2005
The Zimbabwe
Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is greatly disturbed by the continuing
demolition of shelter and destruction of informal businesses, which
has affected a huge number of innocent Zimbabweans.
One month into
the operation, the demolition of the so-called illegal structures
continues unabated and without any slight consideration of the consequences
on the affected people, especially women and children.
Imagine children,
some of them not even a year old, in an open space, wallowing with
hunger, shacking and freezing in this cold whether with only a plastic
shack over their heads. Today 23 June 2005 it has been raining in
Harare, with these people in the open. How are they expected to
survive?
The reports
that the homeless people that are being ‘detained’ at Caledonia
farm are safe are very misleading and an affront to the rights of
these people. Serve for some humanitarian organisations that are
trying to help with food and tents; these people are now refugees
in their own country. The Government has deprived these people of
a basic human right: The right to shelter.
The setting
up of a nine member ministerial committee by the cabinet, which
was supposed to have been done before this operation was started,
exposes the cabinet’s ineptitude over proper decision-making or
the handling of such self-created catastrophes. This is only a way
of finding some work for their fellow comrades and homeboys who
find themselves in the cabinet with nothing to do.
If the government,
especially the Presidium had the conscience and the time to do some
soul searching at this moment, they would realise that they have
really let down the people. This operation, in fact, shows that
our leaders are heartless self-serving hypocrites who will stop
at nothing to fulfil their sadistic appetite for the total control
of peace loving Zimbabweans. If they are man enough they should
just resign.
It seems our
government derives too much pleasure from seeing a lot of Zimbabweans
suffering and at this moment nothing can stop them from disenfranchising
more people to the point of powerlessness so that they entrench
their ungracious stranglehold on power.
Once again the
ZCTU reiterates that government has dismally failed and urges them
to resign.
Wellington Chibebe
SECRETARY GENERAL
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