Gweru ordered to stop selling stands

GWERU’s acting town clerk, Douglas Chikwekwe, has revealed that the local authority had received an order from Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Owen Ncube to stop parcelling out land in peri-urban areas.

Chikwekwe said Ncube expressed concern over land disputes in peri-urban areas before issuing the temporary
ban.

“We have a letter from the office of the provincial minister, where he issued council with a temporary moratorium on land allocation in peri-urban areas,” Chikwekwe said at a recent full council meeting.

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