In Harare, where supplies of drinking water and sanitation facilities are erratic and infrastructure has collapsed due to years of neglect, cholera is now endemic.

With no alternative accommodation, some families settled at an open space about half a kilometre from where their homes used to be.

Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for nearly 40 years, was toppled by the military in 2017 and was succeeded by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.