Killarney, Zimbabwe
Killarney is a suburb of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. It includes a squatted informal settlement also called Killarney.
Informal settlement
[edit]The Killarney squatted informal settlement had 700 inhabitants in 1981 and 2,000 the following year. At its peak it had 4,000. It is composed of three camps: Xotsha, Tshaka and Two Stamp.[1]
During Operation Murambatsvina (Operation Drive Out Filth) in 2005, police wielding iron bars evicted the camps and razed them to the ground.[2] The squatters who had been forcibly evicted from their homes then returned to their shacks and started rebuilding them.[3]
In 2021, squatters said that they had lost their means of income due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe.[4] They also complained that they only had running water from one tap and sometimes it ran green.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Mpofu, Busani (2012). "Perpetual 'Outcasts'? Squatters in peri-urban Bulawayo, Zimbabwe" (PDF). Afrika Focus. 25 (2): 45–63. doi:10.1163/2031356X-02502005.
- ↑ Wines, Michael (13 November 2005). "In Zimbabwe, Homeless Belie Leader's Claim". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
- ↑ "Zimbabwe: Mugabe's clean-up victims flock back to squatter camps – Zimbabwe". Zim Online. 21 September 2005. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ↑ "Locked down at a squatter camp". The Chronicle. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
- ↑ "Byo slum dwellers survive on sewer water". News Day Zimbabwe. 8 January 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2021.