Zimbabwe's Poorest Continue to Suffer

(August 30, 2006 -RV-) A Southern African Christian organization has issued a report addressing the treatment of evicted shanty-dwellers in Zimbabwe. The Solidariity Peace Trust's report details continuing conditions of suffering for many of the 700 thousand persons, whose shanty houses were destroyed by the Zimbabwean government more than a year ago. Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe says the operation was needed to clean up cities. Gunther Simmermacher is editor of neighbouring South Africa's leading Catholic weekly, The Souther Cross. He says there are signs the operation was politically motivated...