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Zimbabwe's Resettlement Task Force Assessing Infrastructure Development
The land resettlement task force of Zimbabwe has started visiting rural districts to assess progress to come up with an action plan for the government ministries to implement infrastructure development, a cabinet minister said Sunday in Harare.
Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Ignaatius Chombo said the visits started on Friday, with the team going to Makonde and Hurungwe districts in Mashonaland West Province.
The team, Chombo said, is expected to finish visiting all the 57 rural district councils by January next year.
The team was composed of representatives from the national army, the ministries of local government and lands, agriculture and rural resettlement, rural and urban councils, provincial administrations, the police and the parliament.
"We are assessing the state of preparedness for implementing all the projects that are supposed to be done to compliment the resettlement program," said Chombo.
He said the resettled people would be encouraged to register as voters in next year's general elections because it is their right to cast votes in any election.
The tour by the team comes at a time when the country is facing a huge task to provide infrastructure to hundred thousands of families resettled under the fast-track resettlement scheme.
Nearly 130,000 families have been resettled under the government program aimed at distributing millions of hectares owned by a few white commercial farmers to millions of peasants squashed on unproductive land.
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