/ 10 January 1999

ZIM SQUATTERS WARNED

ZIMBABWE’s Forestry Commission warned on Sunday that it will destroy new settlements in state-protected forests, Ziana news agency reports. Reacting to complaints by evicted Molocorm Farm squatters, in the country’s Matabeleland North province, the commission said it will do everything possible to deter people from settling in protected forests. Molocorm villagers claimed that the land had been given to them by early 19th century Ndebele King Lobengula’s wife Lozikeyi.

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