Garikai/HlalaniKuhle to provide decent and affordable housing to families that had been displaced. In addition, it catered for low income members of communities who were on local authorities’ housing waiting lists. Furthermore, Government constructed housing units country wide under phase one (1) of the program. Phase two (2) of Operation Garikai provided land to individuals, employers, co-operatives and private constructors for development. 13.2. With regards to the Commission’s concern on the continued impasse to resolve the land issue in the country,61Government has since the year 2000, allocated more than 40 000 hectares of state land in and around urban areas for urban development purposes. Following the land reform programme over twenty thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight (20 778) residential stands were created on six (6) farms acquired by Government for housing development. In July 2012, Government approved the Revised National Housing Delivery Policy and currently, efforts are underway to operationalize the policy through crafting of appropriate strategies and a new programmes to provide one million two hundred and fifty thousand (1 250 000) housing units by year 2020. This policy is also grounded in the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP), the country’s economic blue print which provides for projects towards the provision of housing to hundreds of thousands of citizens by the year 2020. Constitutional and Legislative Measures 13.3. The Constitution guarantees every person’s right in any part of Zimbabwe, to acquire, hold, occupy, use, transfer, hypothecate, lease or dispose of all forms of property, either individually or in association with others62. The Constitution further confers the right to agricultural land and also enjoins Government to acquire such 61 Area of Concern Number 23 (Concluding Observations) 62 Section 71 of the Constitution Page | 34

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