Byo launches clean-up campaign in preparation for Youth Games

HOSTS of the Zone V African Youth Games scheduled for December, Bulawayo has launched a clean-up campaign to tide the city ahead of the Olympics.

The city was has been long regarded as the cleanest in Africa was recently condemned by organizers of the youth games for being dirty.

The city council says it has partnered with the business community, civil society organisations and the government to come up with an initiative to clean the city in an effort to return it to its glory days as one of the cleanest cities on the continent.

The initiative, under the banner of Bulawayo Solid Waste Improvement Platform (B-SWIP), will be launched on Saturday at the Bulawayo Large City Hall car park.

B-SWIP chairperson Sarah Nyathi told the Press that they had realised that the city council could not win the war of cleaning the city alone.

"We as citizens of Bulawayo joined forces with the Bulawayo City Council as we realised that on their own they were doomed to fail," she said.

"The city council could not do it alone and we really needed each other."

Nyathi said a clean-up campaign would be conducted after the launch of the platform.

Bulawayo mayor Martin Moyo is expected to attend the launch.