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Article: Planned Harare clean-up sparks fears of another Operation Murambatsvina.(News)
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- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 19, 2009
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A planned urban clean-up campaign in Harare motivated by health and safety concerns has evoked fears among some residents of a re-run of President Robert Mugabe's iron-fisted Operation Murambatsvina (Throw out the Trash) in 2005.
Operation Murambatsvina left hundreds of thousands of people homeless, after "illegal" structures were demolished by soldiers and police on the orders of the then ruling Zanu-PF government, and was widely seen by analysts as punishment of city dwellers for giving their overwhelming support to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). However, the proposal for an urban clean-up this time comes from the MDC city council, in the ...