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Council Demolitions Haunt Budiriro Residents

CHENGETO Tapfuma (59) has become accustomed to pain and loss. Three years ago, she lost her only daughter after a long illness and became the sole provider for her four grandchildren, who are now aged between eight and 13. While she was still mourning her daughter’s death, her two-roomed cottage, the place she has called home for the past 10 years, was levelled after being declared an “illegal structure”, leaving her young family homeless. As a bulldozer roared into the sprouting suburb on December 8, residents were ordered from their homes with the few possessions they could grab, and then the demolitions began.

Bulldozed: The Zimbabweans losing their homes to a land dispute

Harare, Zimbabwe – Chengeto Tapfuma, 59, has become accustomed to pain and loss. Three years ago, she lost her only daughter after a long illness and became the sole provider for her four grandchildren, who are now aged between eight and 13. The oldest will start secondary school in Harare’s Budiriro suburb, close to where they live, next year. While she was still mourning her daughter’s death, her two-roomed cottage, the place she has called home for the past 10 years, was levelled after being declared an “illegal structure”, leaving her young family homeless. As a bulldozer roared into the sprouting suburb on December 8, residents were ordered from their homes with the few possessions they could grab, and then the demolitions began.

Daggers drawn in Zanu-PF over land barons

DAGGERS are drawn in Zanu-PF over ruling party officials that are amassing land in urban areas, which they sell to desperate home-seekers, with some disgruntled youths demanding action. A letter to President Emmerson Mnangagwa by Zanu-PF youths in Mashonaland West and messages on WhatsApp groups belonging to different wings of the ruling party obtained by this publication show that tension is rising over the land grabs. The issue of people that have amassed vast tracts of land illegally in the cities, referred to as land barons, has come to the fore in recent weeks after 190 houses were demolished in Harare’s Budiriro suburb after the owners illegally occupied council land.

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