The Board resolved to offer them stands in the Epworth low- density area of Rockview, with those interested from the Epworth area getting them. We then hear Government has assured the 200 Epworth families whose homes were destroyed by Sunray City in mid-October that they will get new stands and resources to build houses. The same Epworth Local Board Chairperson, Gift July confirmed same and apparently told the Ministry of Local Government that Epworth have run out of land for residential purposes and are waiting for more space.
Perhaps Councillor July might explain how the land offered to MPs in Rockview is to be used, if not for residential purposes. And if it is to be used for other purpose, what makes the purpose more important than the needs of desperate victims of yet another shocking destruction of under-privileged people’s homes without any provision being made for their alternative accommodation. – L.T.Pooley (Mrs), Harare