Illegal shacks which had been erected at Monavale Vlei, an international site and protected wetland under Zimbabwe's laws, were yesterday destroyed by municipal police as efforts to protect the site gather momentum.
The demolition of the illegal structures comes as a huge relief to environmentalists who were battling to save Monavale Vlei from invasion by a group of war veterans under the banner of Limpopo Housing Cooperative.
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