Killarney, Zimbabwe

The Killarney squatted informal settlement had 700 inhabitants in 1981 and 2,000 the following year. At its peak it had 4,000. It is composed of three camps: Xotsha, Tshaka and Two Stamp.^[1]

During Operation Murambatsvina (Operation Drive Out Filth) in 2005, police wielding iron bars evicted the camps and razed them to the ground.^[2] The squatters who had been forcibly evicted from their homes then returned to their shacks and started rebuilding them.^[3]

In 2021, squatters said that they had lost their means of income due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe.^[4] They also complained that they only had running water from one tap and sometimes it ran green.^[5]

20°08′S 28°39′E / 20.133°S 28.650°E / -20.133; 28.650