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
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Area of Concern Number 23 (Concluding Observations)
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Section 71 of the Constitution
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