Mugabe and other officials characterize the operation as a crackdown on illegal housing and black market commercial activities, and as an effort to reduce the risk of the spread of infectious disease in poor areas.
A government campaign to clear slums across the country, from its start in 2005 it meant loss of homes and livelihoods for at least 700,000 people.
They are victims of Robert Mugabe’s Operation Murambatsvina, or “Move the Trash,” officially known also as Operation Restore Order. NoViolet Bulawayo’s 2013 novel We Need New Names follows a gang of kids whose families have been left with nothing after their homes and possessions are taken from them and they are resettled in a shantytown called Paradise in Zimbabwe.
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