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“Should people be like animals living in the open? If government had done this
and then said ‘Go stay over there’, it would have been better, instead of destroying
everything and leaving us like animals. That is not helpful….If you destroy
someone’s home – it’s like when you pull down a cattle kraal (pen), but first you
build another one. You put the cattle in the new kraal and then you destroy the old
one.
“….He (President Mugabe) is like our father – but one who takes a stick and beats
the child who says ‘I am hungry’.”
Commentary from couple living in a lean-to in Njube, Bulawayo, June 2006.
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