Official Name: | Hopley |
Other Name: | Hopley Farm |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Zimbabwe |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Harare Province |
Established Title: | Established |
Established Date: | 2005 |
Population As Of: | 2018 |
Population Total: | 60,000 |
Hopley, also known as Hopley Farm, is a suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe.
Hopley was created in 2005 following Operation Murambatsvina.[1] At the time, Hopley was used as temporary accommodation for those displaced; Human rights workers and journalists were unable to gain access.[2] The following year, Amnesty International and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights reported that there was no infrastructure and inhabitants lacked basic amenities.[3]
People live either on land supplied by the government or council, or on a squatted informal settlement. As of 2015, the suburb had an estimated population of nearly 35,000 and in 2018, it was 60,000.[4] In 2021, water shortages forced residents to drink from a well in a graveyard.[5]