Melissa Makoto and Ropafadzo Ndangariro
Harare South has been plagued by double residential stand and illegal allocations on wetlands, a councillor has said.

Councillor Rai Gwenyambira told the Minister of State for Harare Provincial Affairs, Mrs Miriam Chikukwa, during a recent visit to Hopley Farm that residents of the fledgling community are struggling to get title deeds for their properties.

“Ever since people started living here, no one has ever been given their title deeds to show that they are owners of the allocated land and some have been doubly allocated and some have been allocated on wetlands,” said Cllr Gwenyambira.

However, Harare City Council’s Acting Town Clerk, Eng Hosiah Chisango, said Government was planning to regularise residential stands at Hopley Farm and provide the requisite amenities.

But he said council will relocate people residing in areas which were reserved for facilities such as schools and clinics.

“We are looking at Hopley as a city to see if there are areas that we can regularise, but we are saying there were areas meant for other facilities such as clinics, schools etecetera, and people should not settle there.

“So we will have to find a way of relocating those people such that those facilities will be there because every community needs those facilities.

“We have plans that are there and some that we are developing if you have been placed at a place where there is another facility planned. We will do it in a way that will not inconvenience a lot of people,” said Eng Chisango.

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