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(HERALD) Co-op leadership engages Chikwinya

Co-op leadership engages Chikwinya
Tuesday, 24 January 2012 00:00
Court Reporter

THE executive leadership of Harare North Housing Co-operative Union, whose membership was ordered off the 84-hectare piece of land in Hatcliffe has engaged the legitimate land occupant Cde Nyasha Chikwinya to accommodate part of the affected families.

Cde Chikwinya - a Zanu-PF Central Committee member - won the land case last week after several members of the union had already erected illegal struc- tures. Justice Francis Bere last week ordered Mr Justin Zvandasara, who was believed to be the union's chairman together with the union's members, to vacate the land within 48 hours of service of the order.

Failure by the members to leave the land on their own, Justice Bere said, will result in the police and the deputy sheriff evicting them.

Cde Chikwinya yesterday said the eviction has been temporarily halted pending the outcome of negotiations with the union's executive led by Mr Misheck Mangwende.

"As a mother and grandmother, I have a heart. Some members of the union thronged my offices begging me to spare them from evictions.

"Some indicated that they did not know that the land was in dispute and that they were unsuspectingly subscribing to the project.

"The union's executive leadership led by Mr Mangwende has also approached us and we are currently negotiating on how such members should be accommodated.

"May be by end of this week there will be a concrete position on the way forward," said Cde Chikwinya.

Harare North Housing Cooperative Union treasurer Mr Knowledge Chetechete yesterday confirmed the development saying talks were still progress.

"Yes we are trying to negotiate on how our membership can be accommodated in Cde Chikwinya's project," said Mr Chetechete.

Cde Chikwinya said there were some double allocations on the land and that the members would be accommodated only on the stands that have not yet been allocated to others.

"We want to allocate the stands in an orderly manner and if there are openings, some of the affected union's members would be accommodated provided they comply with the require- ments and standards for urban settle- ment.

"We will not allow people to erect shacks like what others have done on the land.
"Construction should be done with the approval of the municipality. Stage forms, should be used whereby council approves every stage of construction," said Cde Chikwinya.

Labels: COOPERATIVES, HOUSING

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