Hilary Muza 
DRIVING around the periphery of the Municipality of Harare, or even in some areas closer to the central business district, one is exposed to an irritating eyesore — the unplanned haphazard urban settlements whose image does not auger well for a city striving to attain world class city status.
This is not a problem common to Harare alone, but all the major cities, small towns, growth points and communal areas are tolerating this menace.
It turns out that over the past 15 years, our government through acts of omission and commission allowed anarchy to prevail which has resulted in the establishment of these substandard human settlements.
In 2017 through Statutory Instrument 102 of 2017, the President established the Uchena Land Commission whose mandate was to investigate cases of illegal parceling of urban land.
One would think that after the findings of this Commission that presented its report sometime in December 2019, government would come into its senses and allow sanity to prevail. Regrettably, that has not been the case.
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