Destruction of property
"We had nothing then and we still have nothing": the fourth anniversary of Murambatsvina
Sokwanele Article: May 25th, 2009
View our archive of Murambatsvina images here. Our article from 2005 titled "Operation Murambatsvina": An Overview and Summary, can be found at this link. Archived articles about Operation Murambatsvina can be read here. Remind people about Operation Murambatsvina by sending an e-card.
It was this time, Africa Day 25 May 2005, that Operation Murambatsvina was orchestrated by the Mugabe Government.
It was as cold then as it is today, with temperatures getting to well nigh freezing at night, when over 300,000 already impoverished Zimbabweans were thrown forcibly from their homes and forced to spend many nights out in the open.
Their homes had been razed to the ground by fire or bulldozers, their scanty property scattered in the dirt and Operation "Drive out the filth" took shape in Zimbabwe.
Flagrant violation of the rule of law on Mount Carmel farm
Sokwanele Article: April 16th, 2009We have added captions and background information to this footage, circulated to the media, of Ben Freeth's recent visit to his father-in-law's farm (on Good Friday, 10 April 2009). Shortly after this visit to Mount Carmel, Ben Freeth wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai:
Dear Prime Minister Tsvangirai
As you are aware I wrote an open letter to you 2 weeks ago asking where we were going because "soon it will be too late."
I likened our country’s economy to that of an engine that is continuing to be stripped. Unfortunately the stripping process has increased in momentum significantly since my letter; and police unfortunately remain complicit with it.
'The day I was troubled' : a Zimbabwean child's essay
Sokwanele Article: February 9th, 2008This is a story written by a 14 year old child, a victim of the Zanu PF government's Operation Murambatsvina.We give it to you here, literally in her own words. We've obscured some details to protect the child from potential reprisals.
