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Operation Murambatsvina - Countrywide evictions of urban poor - Index of articles
Millions
remain impoverished two years after Harare cleanup - report
Patience Rusere, Voice of America (VOA)
September 12, 2007
http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2007-09-12-voa47.cfm
Some 2.5 million
Zimbabweans remain mired in poverty two years after the Harare government
promised to build housing for the victims of Operation
Murambatsvina, its forced eviction and demolition campaign that
dislocated thousands of families.
Murambatsvina means "Drive
Out Trash" in the indigenous Shona language.
Its successor,
Operation Garikai, or "Live Well," was supposed to provide
homes to those displaced by Operation Murambatsvina. But the National
Association of Non-Governmental Organizations said in a report
issued this week, entitled "The Operation Garikai-Hlalani
Kuhle National audit within the context of social accountability,"
that Operation Garikai has been a "total failure," helping
few of the victims.
The report noted that
as of June 2006, not a single person had benefited from the program
in towns like Kadoma, Midlands, while a mere handful got housing
in Gweru and Bulawayo, because most people could not afford the
requisite deposits.
In Harare, some families
had to accept housing with no running water or toilets.
NANGO spokesman
Fambai Ngirande told reporter Patience Rusere of VOA's Studio 7
for Zimbabwe that many Murambatsvina victims continue to die quietly
- as in the case of a woman
in the Harare suburb of Mbare who died early Wednesday.
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