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    Harare, (New Ziana) – Some families from parts of Harare that were flooded out of their illegally-built houses at the beginning of the rain season will be accommodated at the recently completed Dzivarasekwa flats, a cabinet minister has said.

    About 59 illegally settled families in sections of Budiriro and Kuwadzana had their houses flooded when the Marimba River burst its banks during the beginning of the 2023/24 rain season.

    This forced the authorities to temporarily shelter them at a local primary school before evacuating them to safer ground where they remain to date.

    Local Government and Public Works Minister, Daniel Garwe told the media that 25 families will be accommodated at the recently completed Dzivarasekwa Flats, while others will get serviced land to build houses for themselves. The flats were built as part of the Ministry of National Housing and Social Amenities’ 100-day cycle of priority projects.

    “Dzivarasekwa Flats has 64 flat units, the people that were affected who were legitimate in that whole programme were about 25 families who are, as we speak, on a safe ground whom we are going to be issuing with flats immediately after the commissioning is done,” Garwe said.

    National Housing and Social Amenities Minister, Zhemu Soda had earlier announced completion of the Dzivarasekwa Flats to Cabinet on Tuesday while giving an update on his Ministry’s first 100-day cycle of 2024.

    Also completed are the Dzivarasekwa civil works (roads, sewer and water), servicing of 24 medium density residential stands at Old Windsor Park, Ruwa and that of residential stands at Hopeville in Bulawayo.

    Under the same programme, the Ministry has completed construction of civil servants houses at Lupane which has been designated the Matabeleland North provincial capital where the regularisation of informal stands has reached 65 percent completion with the procurement of cement, paint and aggregates underway.

    Construction of 17 core houses and ablutions at the Binga Housing project is also completed while that of flats in Marondera, Mashonaland East is 90 percent complete and that of 4×4 storey blocks of flats and a Waiting Mothers Shelter at Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe, Mutawatawa in Mashonaland East continues.

    The re-development of stalled buildings at Beitbridge is 61 percent complete, the Bluffhill (Mashview gardens) project involving the construction of cluster houses being facilitated by the Ministry is expected to be completed by end of this month.

    Similarly updating cabinet on 100-day cycle projects under her Ministry, Environment, Climate and Wildlife’s Sithembiso Nyoni said seedlings were distributed to local communities and planted in the Mavuradonha wilderness while people were trained in bee keeping, bee hive-making and honey processing in Muzarabani and Mbire districts of Mashonaland Central province.

    She said construction of the Hwange One-Stop Pavillion for Wildlife Information and Services is more than 65 percent complete while the identification and demarcation of Mavangwe Hills as a protected forest within the communal land in Buhera district has been completed.

    Construction of two classroom blocks at Gonarezhou in Chiredzi district, Masvingo province by Zimparks as part of its corporate social responsibility is 85 percent complete.

    New Ziana

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