THEMATIC OVERVIEW :
Undue “Political Privilege” renders hundreds homeless.
THE month of August saw hundreds of citizens prejudiced of land they have called home for
years. Some were victims of the latest wave of farm invasions, which reared their ugly head in
areas across the country. Others who had homesteads on farms or in some high-density
suburbs had their houses demolished as they were declared illegal squatters. Yet others
continue to fail to secure residential stands to build homes they can call their own as they are
sidelined on political party lines.
Members of the ruling party continue to illegally parcel out and sell land to their cronies in
apparently misplaced ‘political ‘privilege’.
While a few of the reported instances in this report cite members of the opposition party on the
offensive, the majority of incidences documented by ZPP portrays Zanu PF as the “bully” in the
playground of Zimbabwean politics.
A woman looks on while her home is dem olished. Source: ZPP File Picture
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