ActionAid International Southern Africa Partnership Programme (SAPP-Zimbabwe) accessing medication. General anti retrovirals and neveraprine are the ones that were listed under anti retroviral treatment. No data was collected for the Harare survey. Approximately 15% of surveyed households reported had lost ARV treatment as a result of the Operation. Of these, 35% were households that had mentioned hosting chronically ill individual(s). Results for specific areas are captured in Appendix. 3.3.14 Psychologically affected (traumatized) The operation was swiftly implemented without prior warning in most urban areas then rural areas. Heavy machinery such as bull dozers and trucks were rolled out. To complement this armed police and riot personnel implemented the Operation. The scale of the Operation in some instances resembled a war situation. Skirmishes between civilians and the riot police was reported in Harare - Glen View, Budiriro and Chitungwiza. Approximately 34% of respondents nationally, claimed that they had suffered traumatically as a result of the graphic, detailed and heavy handedness of the implementers of the Operations. From the analysis done, this was generally the same across board with Harare (39%), Bulawayo (31%), Mutare (25%), Kariba (10%), Beitbridge (43%) and Victoria Falls (14%). Despite the low proportions for all areas apart from Beitbridge, child headed households overall recorded 48% had been traumatized. All other vulnerable categories recorded similar results (32%). 3.4 Monetary value lost by communities as a result of the Operation The government of Zimbabwe has launched an operation code name “Garikai/Hlalani Khuhle (Better Life/Reconstruction/Resettlement) after it claimed that Operation Murambatsvina/Restore Order had been successfully completed. Three trillion Zimbabwean dollars (ZW$3,000,000,000,000 = US$300 million21). Our analysis of the situation was to approximate how much damage was caused in dollar. Respondents were asked to value their property and income lost as a result of the operation. It may be argued that this will be subjective in nature. True, however, most of the property destroyed were lifetime savings and to put any monetary value would be a gross under estimation of the true value of property. Estimations for the Harare sample are not Table 10: Monetary value lost by communities available as the Sample Projected questionnaire was population population22 modified after the pilot. ZW$ ZW$ Of the households Harare surveyed, ZW$122 Bulawayo 46,381,457,000 185,526,000,000 billion was lost as a Mutare 38,748,900,000 154,996,000,000 result of the operation. Kariba 23,702,670,000 94,801,680,000 From these results Beitbridge 3,587,700,000 75,341,700,00023 almost ZW$500 Victoria Falls 9,712,700,000 38,850,800,000 (US$29,5 million) was Overall 122,132,027,000 488,534,000,000 reported to have been lost as a direct result of the operation. Losses as result of the Operation include; cash, goods confiscated by ZRP, destruction of property, loss of revenue through livelihoods, losses incurred as a result of increased medical expenses, unplanned expenses such as relocation costs and costs associated with education. This excludes the Harare data, Using the official exchange rate, 17,500. Due to the sampling of a third, these figures are subsequently multiplied by 3. 23 Due to problems encountered in sampling we only managed to a small sample as opposed to 1400, only 250 were survey. Therefore this figure was multiplied by 7 then 3. 21 22 Zimbabwe Operation Murambatsvina/Restore Order National Survey Report 26