PART THREE:
CASE STUDIES
A.
Overview
1.
2010: Families and sites revisited five years on
The latest SPT report builds on our three previous publications on OM, released in June and
October 2005 and August 2006. The earlier reports traced the impact of OM on specific areas
of Bulawayo’s high‐density suburbs, on two informal settlements at Killarney and Ngozi Mine,
and on ten different groups of people in various settings. We tracked what happened to
families forcibly dumped back in rural Matabeleland, and how urban families were trying to
cope with impossible levels of congestion in remaining housing structures. We recorded the
disastrous government housing project, OGHK, noting its corrupt lack of progress.
In 2010:
We have returned to the high‐density suburbs of Bulawayo to reassess how
households have dealt with OM five years on, mapping detailed histories of movement
over the last five years in 27 urban households, representing 269 individuals.
We have gone back to Killarney and Ngozi Mine, informal settlements in Bulawayo
entirely eliminated by OM, to find virtually as many families living there now as
previously – in greater poverty and hardship than before, and having suffered large
numbers of deaths. We conduct semi‐structured interviews, mostly with families that
we have previously interviewed from these informal settlements.
We have attempted to track down once more, the ten families/groups who were
among those forcibly dumped in rural areas, and whose narratives we first
documented in October 2005 and again in August 2006.
We have tracked the many moves of 118 individuals that have taken them, via many
places and experiences, to De Doorns in the Western Cape.
Photo 10: this little girl in Killarney is in the middle of the second eviction of her short life.
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