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Forty
(40) families evicted in Glen View plot one
Combined Harare
Residents Association (CHRA)
February 12, 2008
More than forty families
in Glen View plot one, are set be homeless as they have been given
notice to vacate premises. The families who have been living on
this land for eight years will be homeless come May 2008. The plot,
which was owned by their employer, was sold two years ago and the
new owner wants to develop land for other business and residential
purposes.
The date for
the lapse of the notice falls on May, the month in which CHRA and
other progressive forces will be commemorating 3 years since Operation
Murambatsvina in which over 700 000 families were left homeless.
The CHRA information team talked to about 20 residents who gave
the notice of eviction to the Association. "If nothing is
done to help us we will all be homeless", said one old man
as he shed tears. The letter written by D.Munetsi investments asked
the embattled residents to vacate the premises by the end of three
months. The Association has been working with this group of residents
to try and highlight their plight for shelter and basic social services.
Last year CHRA sourced a donation of food, blankets and pots for
the forty families.
The Association has developed
and a will be facilitating a program on Sustainable Dialogue for
Community Development focusing on victims of Operation Murambatsvina
in order to allow them to drive the process for their own development.
It is hoped that this group will also have its own dialogue platform
where it will drive its programs and invite various stakeholders
of their choice who can assist them.
The Association will
explore legal routes to try and assist the residents of Glen View.
The Association will also mobilize other stakeholders so that a
practical solution is found before the lapse of the notice. A protest
march is being organized as other solutions are being worked out.
CHRA urges all stakeholders to respond to the plight of these residents.
The Government cannot be expected to do anything as it has failed
to assist people who were affected by Operation Murambatsvina.
Visit the CHRA
fact
sheet
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