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17 July 2010: A woman in Killarney informal settlement demolishes her shelter - evicted and on the move again, exactly 5 years after OM
17 July 2010 - shack in process of being built in the “new line” following this week’s evictions in Killarney
May 2005 - from Porta Farm in Harare (above) to Killarney in Bulawayo (below): burnt out and homeless, young children and the elderly survey the ruins of their homes
May 2005 - from Porta Farm in Harare (above) to Killarney in Bulawayo (below): burnt out and homeless, young children and the elderly survey the ruins of their homes
OM resulted in total destruction of licensed vending malls around Zimbabwe [Harare, May 2005]
Glimpses of Bulawayo’s informal sector, July 2010. These vendors all operate on the run, ready to take off when police arrive to arrest them and confiscate their wares
IOM has built 33 houses in Bulawayo since 2005, and around 80 houses in Hopley Farm, Harare.
This little girl in Killarney is in the middle of the second eviction of her short life
Killarney – evictions in May 2005
Glimpses of Bulawayo’s informal sector, July 2010. These vendors all operate on the run, ready to take off when police arrive to arrest them and confiscate their wares
There are 18 government-funded, “Operation Garikai” houses in Hopley farm, Harare, where 3,800 displaced live: windows and doors have been bricked up because there are no door or window frames, and also no sewerage, water or electricity, five years after being built. [July 2010]
IOM has built 33 houses in Bulawayo since 2005, and around 80 houses in Hopley Farm, Harare.
This grandmother is doing her best to raise 20+ grandchildren in a three-roomed house in Bulawayo [July 2010]
Killarney – evictions in May 2005
Killarney – evictions in May 2005
Killarney – evictions in May 2005
A child carries containers to the mine shaft – only source of water in Killarney
A neighbour has turned a truck wreck into a house
The backbreaking task of making new homes in the winter dust elsewhere in Killarney, July 2010 – and how long to the next eviction?
The backbreaking task of making new homes in the winter dust elsewhere in Killarney, July 2010 – and how long to the next eviction?
Cross border taxis promise to carry Zimbabweans “straight to Joburg Egoli” from rural Tsholotsho: diasporisation has increased exponentially in recent years, but has often seen little brought back to families left behind.
Artists in Ngozi Mine live in cardboard houses while they carve intriguing sculptures – here, a fish eagle, kudu, leopard and humans – all made out of melted plastic collected from the adjacent rubbish dumps
Artists in Ngozi Mine live in cardboard houses while they carve intriguing sculptures – here, a fish eagle, kudu, leopard and humans – all made out of melted plastic collected from the adjacent rubbish dumps
This man burns tyres and makes diamond mesh wire out of the waste
A neighbour has turned a truck wreck into a house
From Cowdray Park tents in 2006 ...
Artists in Ngozi Mine live in cardboard houses while they carve intriguing sculptures – here, a fish eagle, kudu, leopard and humans – all made out of melted plastic collected from the adjacent rubbish dumps
Artists in Ngozi Mine live in cardboard houses while they carve intriguing sculptures – here, a fish eagle, kudu, leopard and humans – all made out of melted plastic collected from the adjacent rubbish dumps
In Hopley Farm, Harare, 8,500 adults live in makeshift housing: out of 2,000 school age children, 75% are out of formal school. [July 2010]
In Hopley Farm, Harare, 8,500 adults live in makeshift housing: out of 2,000 school age children, 75% are out of formal school. [July 2010]
Valiant teachers at Hopley Farm, Harare, do their best to provide education in this ‘illegal school’ for around 680 of the 2,000 children here, who have no other opportunities to learn. They need a proper building, with plumbing and toilets, to register the school… [May 2010]
via rural Tobotobo ...
and back to Killarney by 2010.
Informal mining settlement - from active mine shaft in 2005, to abandoned hole in the ground in 2010.
Valiant teachers at Hopley Farm, Harare, do their best to provide education in this ‘illegal school’ for around 680 of the 2,000 children here, who have no other opportunities to learn. They need a proper building, with plumbing and toilets, to register the school… [May 2010]
May 2005: those people in Killarney who were taken in by the churches ended up moving four or more times over the next few years, incurring losses and stress at each move, while those who hid and stayed in Killarney avoided this! Virtually all those originally from Killarney were back there in 2010. Some have lived in Killarney for 27 years, and on average, for 14 years.
June 2005 - out of this family of four only the little boy on the right is still alive in 2010. Mother, father and baby all died.
With her failed harvest in the background, this old lady dumped in rural Matabeleland in 2005 recounts the deaths of two children, and the burden of a daughter who has lapsed into mental illness: while barely surviving, she has no energy to move again. [May 2010]
Informal mining settlement - from active mine shaft in 2005, to abandoned hole in the ground in 2010.
From busy settlement (2005) ... to empty landscape (2010).
From busy settlement (2005) ... to empty landscape (2010).
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Good quality housing was demolished in Victoria Falls in 2005 – the town lost 64% of its accommodation.
Good quality housing was demolished in Victoria Falls in 2005 – the town lost 64% of its accommodation.
In 2010, many people in Victoria Falls now live in shacks unable to rebuild decent homes after years of financial battering – as well as further demolitions, including on Christmas Eve in 2009, ordered by the MDC T led city council!
PASSOP, an NGO supporting Zimbabweans in De Doorns, is banned from entering the IDP camp, and here holds a meeting with them through the fence! They deliver “the Zimbabwean” newspaper – news from home read avidly. [30 May 2010]
PASSOP, an NGO supporting Zimbabweans in De Doorns, is banned from entering the IDP camp, and here holds a meeting with them through the fence! They deliver “the Zimbabwean” newspaper – news from home read avidly. [30 May 2010]
PASSOP, an NGO supporting Zimbabweans in De Doorns, is banned from entering the IDP camp, and here holds a meeting with them through the fence! They deliver “the Zimbabwean” newspaper – news from home read avidly. [30 May 2010]
Snow was already falling on the mountains at De Doorns in May 2010 – making life even more unpleasant for those living in tents.
This Cape registered cross border transporter was seen at Beitbridge with this precarious load: in July 2010, Zimbabweans were sending their worldly possessions back home as a precaution against losing everything again in xenophobic attacks.
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