“I am no longer hopeful. I think it is going to be worse than this.
At times I look at my scattered things, I don’t bother eating anything.
I live in a state of severe emotional stress and depression. I am
traumatised”
[Hopley Farm resident, Harare, June 2010]
“They have ruined my life again…. I have no money to go anywhere. From
the word go, I have worked hard to get something, and have lost it all, over
and over. “
[Zimbabwean in De Doorns IDP camp, May 2010]
State induced displacements and the multi‐layered violence accompanying
such practices… are not an aberration. Rather they appear to be an ever‐
present possibility if not actuality, integral to contemporary as well as past
modes of rule and state making.1
1 Hammar, Amanda (2008), In the Name of Sovereignty: Displacement and State Making in PostIndependence
Zimbabwe; Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 417‐434.
2