Forced evicfions
- Forced demolitions continue. At the moment, it is toking
ploce in some oreos of Horore ond Chitungwizo.
The cose of the Chingwizi villogers is one of trogic proporiions os the villogers
who ore victims of internol displocement continue to suffer furlher violotions of
their sociol ond economic righis without o cleor solution in sight.
Oiher victims of forced evictions hove been coses of some former form
workers who hove been disploced. This hos been done through the
opplicotion of the Gozetted Londs (Consequentiol Provisions) Act, ond
through the civil courts. The lhemotic Committee bemoons the lock of o
cleor policy to resettle this group of people who cleorly constitute on
indigenous vulnerqble group deserving of some form of constituiionol
protection.
Eviction of informal troders
-
This is
onother chollenge, with those eking out o
living by woy of informol employment being of the mercy of outhorities. The
current economic decline continues
to result in growing
formol
unemployment ond increosed informol troding, which the governmeni hos
ottempted to formolise with vorious chollenges, including disrespect for
constitutionol protections. fhese populotions ore
qt
risk
of repression ond
politicol monipulotion. Running bottles continue to be experienced bel'ween
this group ond the municipol police ond ihe Committee regrets thot of times
the oction token by outhorities hos been orbitrory leoding to
loss
of wores by
the informol troders even when the low is cleor on how confiscoted goods
must be deolt with.
4.2.2 Educqtion
Educotion -Economic conditions continue to moke
ii difflcult for porents to
meet iheir obligotions of secondory schools ond primory schools remoin
inoccessible to mony. Mony children continue to foce chollenges. Some
schools ore withholding results from pupils due to non-poyment of fees by
porents. Schools must toke oppropriote oction to deolwith this issue thoi does
noi offect the best interest of the child, o principle thot
Constitution.
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is
entrenched in our