Bulawayo — One early morning in June, Mthulisi Ndiweni, 55, suddenly found himself homeless. Government bulldozers rumbled into the squatter camp of Kilarney on the outskirts of Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo, and tore it down.
Ndiweni and his family of five, along with a thousand other unemployed or low-income earners in Kilarney, had become local victims of the government's much-criticised Operation Murambatsvina (Drive out Trash) - a nationwide programme ostensibly aimed at urban renewal, which left more than 700,000 people homeless and jobless.
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