Zim housing-blitz victims 'still homeless'

Is there anyone on the planet who believes the Zim govt would really build houses for these folks or is the journo the author of this piece the only naive one left?

Of course there are no houses, get with the programme! Unless some sucker Western Aid money manages to build some houses without losing all its money to Bob & his mates nothing will ever be done - can we really be this doff or is this just done to use up webspace, paper and ink?

Paul Aarden, 'Unless some sucker Western Aid money manages to build some houses...'

Going by recent developments, the Western donors will have to keep their money! First it was old Mugabe who identified the root problem to poverty in his country and recently the young energetic Foreign Minister from the opposition MDC is in agreement.

Zim will be exercising full control of her resources and the proceeds will be used to develop Zimbabwe. Talk of a perfect template for SADC. It has not been easy but judging by the recent sentiments from the MDC Finance Minister Biti, Zim will not need Western NGOprenuers and Aidprenuers now and into the future!


I envy these Zimbabweans for biting the bullet for a brighter tomorrow.

Eish,...

dread dread6, since you worship Zim so much, can you just go live there and keep telling the starving and homeless masses just how illustrious an example Zim is for the rest of the world?

Jon, no need for me to ship off to Zim. Even Zille is acknowledging that we have to confront problems - she is now talking of 50/50 equity on the farms between pink farmers and farm workers! There is hope all thanks to Zim handling pinks with kid gloves!

Eish,...

@Jon Visagie

People like Dread Dread6, trust me we have more than our own fair share of his like in Zimbabwe, simply refuse to see the reality as long as they see a chance of getting rich without actually working for it. That is why the farm invasion appeals to him. This article is about how the Mugabe regime has failed to the millions of one of its many failed policies. And yet Dread Dread6 writes "I envy these Zimbabweans for biting the bullet for a brighter tomorrow".

The Mugabe regime must not be allowed to keep their loot whilst there are so much misery and suffering from the victims of their greed!

The GVT of zimbabwe willk at some point be able to build the houses for the people who can afford them. At the moment the GVT cannot afford to dish out houses for free. we ahve a whole host of issues to adress..
And for people to think that illegal structures that were demolished during the operation must be compensates is pure madness.................Everyone knew that at one pointb in time the GVT was going to move in to stamp the rot..................
I used to stay in the Location of Glen Norah,Jon and Wilbert, there was a sprawling of tuckshops(pamasimbi) and shacks(kumahome industry) that were becoming a menace to the beauty and sewage system.....................
Go to masimbi right now, just after the round about,before the turn off to OK, its a much better place , cleaner, than what is was degenerating into........................................
The GVT has recemtly gazzeted land that it will acquire on behalf of the local GVT, in the mazoe area..about 28 farms targetted for housing development, via the expansion of the City of Harare...
IT WILL BE A BETTER PLACE AFTER ALL..................

@John Berry

No one would stay in a shack or be a vendor if they can have a house or a better paid job. Zimbabwe’s economy has been in free fall for decades and unemployment has soared to nauseating heights of 80% plus. How do expect all these people to live?

Most of them are now working in the informal sector, mostly buying and selling, - kukiya kiya. They are barely making enough to buy food let alone to buy other basic essential like clothing, school fees, etc. No bank would give them a mortgage on the basis of their kiya kiya activities.

Let us put aside for one second the reason why Zimbabwe’s economic is in melt down. Let us agree that whatever the reason(s) the ordinary people have nothing to do with it. The question then is why are they then being punished?

The reason for Zimbabwe’s economic melt down is years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption by the Mugabe regime. The millions of Zimbabweans now living in abject poverty is a living testimony of the regime’s failure. Operation Murambatsvina was a typical reaction of the regime to a problem – blame someone else, in this case the victims, or sweep the dirty under the carpet!

The government of Zimbabwe as the governement of the people by the people had a role and responsibility to ensure housing for its citizens; what they did was destroy what homes their people had managed to construct in light of their failure to provide. This was in direct violation of the basic rights of every human. It was also in contravention of Zimbabwean law that demanded that the government give notice of intent to destroy any structure, whether legal or otherwise.Dread dread fails to recognise or even take pity on the thousands who were without roofs for months on end,,,I saw them with my own eyes as they were forced to take refuge in our church, as they were scattered over the countryside stripped of one of the dignities that every human is entitled to. It is easy to type words of victory as you sit in your plush home dread dread and John Berry, but that victory echoes shallow and I fail to find any remnant of humanity in your hearts, that is the true peasure of patriotism,,,not the drivel that is preached to us.

Nowadays, it becomes more difficult to hide things.
Remember? http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AFR46/008/2006/en
Those who bite the bullet don't seem to be the ones whose teeth are broken.