Dete: Nkayi: Bubi: 50 houses were allocated in early March. They are incomplete and recipients are urged to complete the houses themselves. 61 20 houses were allocated in July: none have services. 20 houses allocated in July: none have services. Matabeleland South: Gwanda: 246 houses were allocated in February, but are said to be uninhabitable, as they have no doors, windows, sewerage, water, or floors.62 The plots are too small for people to erect Blair toilets: people are (illegally) living there and using the surrounding bush to defecate. The area is now unsightly and a health hazard. Beitbridge: 104 houses were allocated in February, also without any services.63 Filabusi, Esigodini and Plumtree: 100 houses each, were allocated in February – 300 houses altogether. 64 None of these houses have any services. Houses were also often allocated incomplete, with people supplying their own glass for windows and their own doors. Maphisa: 57 houses are complete and allocated and 43 are at foundation level.65 Only 18 houses had doors on allocation, and people have had to supply their own. There is no water or sewerage supplies, and no Blair toilets. People are using the bush as a toilet. Figtree: Around 20 houses have been built here, although the exact number has not been ascertained. None of the houses have services, and nobody seems to be living in them. The place appears derelict.66 Midlands Gweru: 41 houses were handed over in June, with 56 more houses to be handed over by December 2006. The Governor Cde Msipa exhorted those given houses to take occupancy, because at the hand-over ceremony “only a handful’ of the 41 beneficiaries were there and nobody knew where the rest were or how to contact them.67 Kwekwe: Only 10 houses have been built here, in the second largest town in the province! Nobody is living in them and they have no sewerage and no water.68 Mataga: 10 houses are being built; building only began in July 2006!69 61 The Sunday News, 5 March 2006; authors’ interviews/ observations July 2006. The Standard, 12 February 2006; authors’ interviews/ observations July 2006. 63 The Chronicle, 3 February 2006. 64 Ibid; authors’ interviews/ observations May – July 2006. 65 Authors’ visit, May 2006. 66 Visual assessment by authors in June 2006. 67 The Chronicle, 4 June 2006. 68 Interviews with Kwekwe residents, authors own observations. 69 Interview with Mataga resident, who was further deeply amused by the fact that the ZANU PF MP has built a legal vending site for his supporters only, and the ZANU PF senator is therefore in the process of building an illegal vending site – for his supporters only! 62 31