President Mnangagwa has said that illegal settlers should not be evicted like criminals. This was revealed by ZANU PF Chief Whip, Pupurai Togarepi during a media briefing that followed the Zanu-PF Caucus meeting in Harare yesterday.
Togarepi said that the president cases must be treated on a case by case basis. He said:
The President said the evictions should be done in a dignified way and the relevant Ministry should identify land to resettle the illegal settlers.
Where the illegal settlers have grown crops on someone’s farm, the President said they should be allowed to stay on until they have finished harvesting their crops.
Where they have settled on undesignated land, the President said efforts should be made to regularise their stay on that piece of land.