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Majubeki report
Harare Residents Trust (HRT)
October 25, 2010

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Weak Suffer in Silence

1. OBJECTIVE OF REPORT:

a. To expose the levels of corruption by identified council officials
b. To highlight the plight of Majubeki Lines in Mbare
c. To recommend ways to address the challenges facing the residents.

2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

The Harare Residents Trust (HRT) undertook this tour on Friday 23 August and Saturday 24 August 2010. The HRT has constantly received reports from the residents concerning various aspects of their living conditions. In response the HRT has registered significant successes. Residents' programmes have been built around residents' capacity to unpack local government legislation, policies, and local authorities' policies, regulations and by- laws. Corrupt practices by elected Councillors and City employees have been exposed and will continue to be exposed through parliamentary advocacy, stakeholder engagement and through the media..

The crisis of accommodation in Harare has created a lucrative opportunity for City employees in the City's Housing and Community Services department to exploit the poor and vulnerable members of society. This has been a serious concern of residents in suburbs where hundreds of residents are living in the so-called "rented accommodation".

This report details how bona fide dependants and relatives of deceased owners have been haunted out of their family houses in Mbare's Majubeki Lines of Ward 3. The houses in this area were built in the early 1940s. The majority of the citizens living in the area remain hopeful that one day they would secure title deeds to their houses. However the city of Harare, through the Department of Housing and Community Services has constantly threatened residents with eviction whenever they demand ownership to their dwellings, which the residents insist are on home ownership. But the city claims that the houses belong to them.

This scenario has created intense acrimony between the city and the residents in Majubeki. What has become very clear is that the City of Harare lacks a clearly defined housing policy that can reduce the challenges of overpopulation. The expectations of the residents remain unmet over home ownership.

In this report, the HRT exposes how politicians in ZANU PF and MDC-T, in cahoots with named city employees at Remembrance District Office have caused the displacement of innocent residents from their houses. The victims have named some of the politicians as chief actors in the ongoing accommodation scandal that has left some orphans without shelter. Others now live in constant fear of being evicted because they have failed to pay the demanded bribes.

Suspended Ward 3 Councillor Paul Gorekore faces serious allegations of corruption involving residents' houses in Majubeki, market allocations and other issues related to housing cooperatives. Bridget Mandizha an Allocations Manager, Mrs. Tembo, Mr Chipaga and other identified workers at the Remembrance District office have allegedly created a well refined syndicate of repossessing residents' houses working in close cooperation with identified politicians.

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Contact the HRT on 0772869 294/ 0772771860 or email us on hretrust@yahoo.com

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