07/22/2004

Some former farm workers have been displaced by the land reform program and have fled to their traditional rural lands or into peri-urban areas around Harare. Former farms, like Porta Farm, have turned into squatter camps where displaced former farm workers have moved. The camps are overcrowded and lacking in basic sanitary services. However, unlike the "internally trapped," these displaced people are able to access some education services and a mobile health clinic. These services are being threatened by the government, however, as it begins to clamp down on any populations that can be held up as visible examples of the failure of the land reform program.