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Dozens of families whose homes were demolished in Budiriro last week are rebuilding their homes in defiance while a Zanu-PF linked Housing Cooperative has already begun to move in to assume ownership of the settlement as the nightmare land scam continues unrestricted.
Opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday described the demolition of houses, which exposed residents to rains and diseases as “cruel and heartless” and criticised the government saying that it behaves in an unpleasant old fashioned manner.
The MDC Alliance and the Zanu PF regime are exchanging barbs over who is responsible for the ‘inhuman’ demolition of houses in Budiriro this week. The callous development happened while Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume was incarcerated in jail facing charges of criminal abuse of office.
Jah Prayzah saluted his supporters in Budiriro, Harare, for turning up in their numbers for his appreciation show at Budiriro 1 Shopping Centre over the weekend.
Government is downplaying the cholera crisis and that schools should close until the outbreak has been contained, teachers’ unions have insisted.
Several churches in Harare yesterday defied a government ban on public gatherings and continued worshiping in the face of a stepped-up campaign to prevent the spread of cholera.
Civic Society Health Emergency Response Coordinating Committee (CSHERCC) has said the government is solely to blame for the more than 25 reported cholera deaths.
At least 25 people have died in Harare from cholera so far with nearly 4 000 people having been attended to at the Beatrice Road Infectious Diseases Hospital (BRIDH) by yesterday.
The death toll from the cholera outbreak in Harare’s high-density suburbs of Glen View and Budiriro has risen to 16, with health officials yesterday quarantining and decommissioning all possible sources of the disease.
Five people have died in Harare from a suspected cholera outbreak in Budiriro and Glen View suburbs while 35 patients with symptoms of the water-borne disease are admitted at Beatrice Infectious Diseases Hospital.