I will give up claims to my land in the communal area by letting my son inherit it. I can’t give up my communal area, that’s taboo. I will pretend I have.60 As a consequence of the perceived lack of security of tenure and of support for new settlers, some of those who might otherwise want land are reluctant to come forward. One councilor described to Human Rights Watch how he was having difficulty filling up his quota: They asked councilors to give the names of people to be resettled, in my ward I was asked to get ten names. I will hold a meeting to ask who wants to be resettled. I hold a meeting with people in the ward every two months. I’ve asked two times now for names, but I only got one name, though there are about 400 people at each meeting, and 934 homesteads in my ward, with an average five people per homestead. We were given no forms, we just had to give the names. People don’t want to move because they have no money or resources—it’s expensive to move to a new place, you need more than land only. 61 Therefore, “you get people who are being pushed onto the farms. If they were not pushed they would not have gone.”62 In some areas, occupiers of land are being paid in order to overcome their reluctance to move. In the Marondera area, for example, a farm foreman told human rights researchers, confirming similar reports, that: The squatters are paid, yes…Soldiers are coming to the farm, and the deputy police commissioner. He’s the one who wants this farm. There are big people who employ the squatters to harass the farmers and us, who work for him. They come in groups of 200 or 150 when they see the tractors in the field. They harass us, and chase us. [Q: How do you know?] I hear from the war vet that he [the police officer] wants the farm. He has a white Toyota Hilux twin cab, and we see him driving here on the weekends. [Q: How can you tell that he's paying the squatters money?] I develop a friendship with them, and they tell us. [Name deleted], he is employed as the base commander. He got paid Z$2,000 to Z$2,500 for each shack that gets built. There’s no floor in the shacks, just walls. No one is supposed to live there, it’s just to show that the land is occupied. 63 Many people in communal areas reported that those from their area that had gone to the fast track resettlement areas had left their families behind, or the families had returned even if the men had stayed on the new plots. Children who had moved to new areas were missing classes because they sometimes faced walks of twenty-five kilometers or more to school. Even those who have remained have faced problems in securing education for their children, since many teachers have been driven away from their schools by Zanu-PF militia on suspicion of being MDC supporters. 60 Human Rights Watch interview, fast track resettlement farms, Bulawayo, Matabeleland South, August 2, 2001 Human Rights Watch interview, councilor, Chimanimani, July 17, 2001. 62 Human Rights Watch interview, ex-district administrator, Matabeleland South, August 2, 2001. 63 Amnesty International interview, Marondera, December 4, 2001. Amnesty International made available to Human Rights Watch several testimonies the organization collected in Zimbabwe during a December 2001 mission. 61 Human Rights Watch 16 March 2002, Vol. 14, No. 1 (A)