The Harare City Council has approached the High Court
seeking an order to evict over 185 families illegally settled on a piece of
land in Budiriro, with a view to survey and service the area before handing it
over to the affected families.
Council recently filed a court application citing Events
Housing Co-operative Society Limited, its chairperson and the Sheriff of the
High Court as respondents in the matter.
“This is an application for eviction of the first
respondent’s (Events Housing Co-operative Society Limited) members from the
applicant’s (City of Harare) land depicted on Plan Number TYP/WR/01/14 Budiriro
to enable the applicant to service and survey the land for the first
respondent,” town clerk Hosiah Abraham Chisango said in his founding affidavit.
Chisango said despite the co-operative being a registered
entity in terms of the laws of the country, it was, however, occupying a piece
of land which it illegally invaded.
“However, despite the illegal invasion, the applicant on
March 29, 2017 resolved to regularise the first respondent’s settlement by
allocating 185 stands depicted on Plan Number TYP/WR/01/14. The said
regularisation was subject to procedural planning processes and other
conditions outlined therein,” he said.
Chisango further said in June 2017, the allocation was
published in a local newspaper, but there was an objection raised against the
allocation.
According to Chisango, the said objection was not
considered because it had been raised by an illegal settler who was a member of
a co-operative called Tembwe Housing Co-operative.
Chisango said following a series of meetings by the city
fathers, it was resolved to approach the court for recourse because the
co-operative members were refusing to vacate the land in order to have it
surveyed and serviced for its benefit.
The matter is pending. Newsday
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