An estimated 300,000 people are homeless after the government razed houses and shops.

In a dark and dusty churchyard, scores of Zimbabwean families are quietly trying to come to terms with losing their homes.

Small groups huddle around fires. Their possessions are piled high around them - the sofas and bedsteads, dressers and wardrobes that they managed to save when police destroyed their homes as part of a controversial city 'clean-up' campaign.

The township of Tafara, which means 'we are happy' in the local Shona language, is now a place of devastation.