THE ruling Zanu PF party has admitted that its land reform programme was chaotic, as there was no provision for health care facilities, forcing most beneficiaries to walk long distances for medication.
by Stephen Chadenga
The party’s acting provincial chairperson for Midlands, Kizito Chivamba, made the admission at a provincial meeting in Gweru at the weekend.
“We have a big challenge of lack of clinics, where people were given land under the resettlement exercise,” he said in his report.
“People walk long distances to access health facilities and this is an issue that needs urgent attention.”
Chivamba said hospitals in the province lacked drugs and there was need to ensure the health centres were well stocked to fulfill the party’s blueprint policy, ZimAsset.
“We have hospitals, particularly in districts like Mberengwa, where the health institutions are just buildings with no drugs inside,” he said.
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Critics of the land reform programme have often described it as having been rushed and chaotic, as most resettlement schemes were set up without provision for health, water and education facilities.
However, President Robert Mugabe has defended the land distribution programme, saying it was meant to correct colonial imbalances.
