Govt to evict 300 families

Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Deputy Minister (Cropping) Davis Marapira said that Government is set to evict 300 families settled on the shores of Lake Mutirikwi to restore a buffer zone around Masvingo City’s sole water supply that is threatened with siltation.

Said Marapira:

Lake Mutirikwi is under serious threat from these illegal settlers, who allocated themselves plots on the shores of the dam The area currently occupied by the illegal settlers is supposed to be a buffer zone that is devoid of human settlements to avert the threat of siltation. We are going to move in and restore sanity for the sake of our dam, which is of great strategic economic importance to Masvingo city and the province at large.

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