Zanu PF politician evicts 30 families from farm
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Published: August 3, 2009
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ZIMBABWE – HARARE - 30 families were evicted from a farm that is illegaly owned by former Zanu PF chairman, Mike Madiro with the aid of armed policemen and messenger of court and dumped in the open along the Harare-Mutare road.
The families have been sleeping in the open in the biting winter season for the past three months. They were evicted by Madiro accusing them of being MDC supporters.
Mashava accompanied by five armed police officers and a welfare officer visited the stranded families yesterday and told them they were squatting at a place without any lawful right of occupation.
The DA then ordered the families to immediately vacate the place and go elsewhere.
The families, who include several children below the age of one, said they could not leave the place as they had no where else to go. They said the only home they knew was Wilton Farm.
In an interview with one of the victims, Ms Rosilia Marunga, who is still bitter from the way they were removed from the farm, finds herself in a difficult position saying she was born and bred at Wilton farm and knows no other place to go to.
“We were evicted as if we are not humans and we have no right to land. We have known the farm as our only home but now we have been made destitutes,” she said.
At least 52 children are also victims of the evictions. The Zimbabwe Telegraph.