The Minister for National Housing and Social Ammenities, Giles Mutsekwa, has denied allegations made recently by the human rights watchdog, Amnesty International that the government had threatened to evict the residents of a poor settlement outside Harare if they failed to renew their leases ahead of a September 30th deadline.
Hatcliffe Extension is home to displaced people who were put there by the government after Operation Murambatsvina, the government's so-called cleanup operation in which houses and businesses that were deemed to be illegal were bulldozed back in 2005. Nearly one million people were displaced and many others were dumped in rural areas by the roadside.
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