Borrowdale, Harare
Coordinates: 17°45′35″S 31°05′21″E / 17.75972°S 31.08917°E
Borrowdale is a wealthy residential suburb in the north of Harare, Zimbabwe.
[edit] Controversy
In 2006[1][2] several residents (including British aristocrats) of the predominantly wealthy white suburb were evicted from their homes because of their proximity to Mugabe's new home in the suburb. In 2007[3] the exclusive suburb hit the headlines again when news emerged that 100 mainly white youths were arrested during a raid in the suburb's Glow Nightclub, they were transported in two police buses and detained in the downtown central police station. According to eye witnesses, several of the youths were attacked by the Zimbabwean police. In 2008[4], The Guardian reported on the increasingly hostile situation that the urban white community were facing in Zimbabwe.
[edit] References
- ^ The Telegraph, 20 January 2006 :Now aristocrats will be evicted for living too close to Mugabe
- ^ The Telegraph, 02 February 2006 : Mugabe moves against city whites
- ^ Mail & Guardian, 01 April 2007 : Zim police detain scores of teenagers
- ^ McGreal, Chris (24 June 2008). "Voters left with little choice as the terror goes on". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/24/zimbabwe1. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
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