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Operation Murambatsvina - Countrywide evictions of urban poor - Index of articles
Chefs
grab 'Garikai' houses
Gibbs
Dube, The Standard (Zimbabwe)
February 06, 2006
http://www.thestandard.co.zw/read.php?path=./news/2006/February/Sunday5/&st_id=761
BULAWAYO - Two children
of a government minister, police officers, a large number of civil servants
and soldiers are the beneficiaries of "Operation Garikai/ Hlalani Kuhle"
in Gwanda.
The revelations come at a time when government has ordered that beneficiaries
immediately move into the houses, although these are without water and
sewer reticulation systems.
Ignatious Chombo,
the Minister of Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development,
has given the green light for the residents to put up Blair toilets and
other "temporary toilets" in their suburbs where they would get water
from communal taps.
"Beneficiaries of
completed houses which are not yet habitable because of lack of sewer
and water reticulation are to move in and start using central water collection
points as well as Blair toilets while permanent servicing arrangements
are being made," notes a government directive in possession of The Standard.
The scheme is designed
to benefit homeless and poor people who were displaced by Zimbabwe's widely-condemned
"Operation Murambatsvina".
However, documents
leaked to The Standard show that the programme is set to benefit well
connected people and government officials.
In Gwanda, two children
of the Deputy Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Abednigo
Ncube - Leslie and Colleta Thabiso Ncube - whose addresses are listed
as 82 Senondo were allocated houses last Thursday.
Ncube, who is also
the Member of Parliament for Gwanda, used to stay at number 82 Senondo
suburb before he moved to Jacaranda low-density suburb following his appointment
as deputy minister.
Leslie, an employee
of the Gwanda Rural District Council and currently staying at his father's
former residence, is listed as number 9323 on the town's housing waiting
list which currently stands at more than 27 000, while his sister, Colleta,
does not appear on the list at all.
Other luminaries appearing
on the housing list include Acting Officer Commanding Matabeleland South
Assistant Commissioner Munorwei Shava Matutu; Etoile Silayigwana; provincial
executive members of the ruling party Esau Moyo and Rabson Mpofu Mafu;
and senior civil servants Calvin Nzima and Joseph Kamuzhanje.
Several prison officers
and their juniors also appear to have been allocated houses in Gwanda
in what seems to have been a free-for-all for government workers.
Nzima and Kamuzhanje
are the provincial heads of the Central Mechanical and Equipment Department
(CMED) and Physical Planning Department respectively.
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