WEEKEND GAZETTE

Murambatsvina revisited
Book review by Zhean Gwaze
Book title: In My Own Words-Zimbabwean women's encounters with Operation Murambatsvina Author: The Feminist Political Education Project (Fepep)
Publishers: Weaver Press

"This booklet is about expression, comfort and healing," reads the foreword of the 25-page easy to booklet, which offers a voice for the experiences of women in the aftermath of Operation Murambatsvina (Operation Clean-up).

The government's clean-up exercise, embarked on in 2005 rendered 700 000 people homeless, according to United Nations envoys, triggering an alarming humanitarian crisis that means to this day, many citizens are still sleeping in the open.