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Zimbabwe's urban majority have no access to basic water
Most households in urban centres have no access to basic water and only 48,4% having that access amid fears this will result in outbreak of diseases.Latest Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Co...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 11:03hrs | 17 | by Stephen Jakes
'Heavy tax on beef'
ZIMBABWE'S beef industry is heavily taxed and Government needs to review downwards, streamline compliance costs to create room for growth in the sector and enable livestock farmers to realise high ear...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Government introduces livestock levy
Government has with immediate effect introduced Livestock Development Levy that will affect people involved in the production of day old chicks, buying raw milk and slaughtering beef cattle. Producers...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops, nurses steal victims' food
POLICE officers and nurses stole food and other donations meant for flood victims in Matabeleland North, a senior official has said.Matabeleland North Provincial Administrator Ms Latiso ...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Illegal settlements irk residents
Harare Residents Trust has said the alarming rate of illegal settlement in Harare are rising concern of residents amid concerns most of them were parcelled out by the Local Government, Public Works an...Published: 01 Oct 2016 at 06:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
City Council demolition of illegal structures praised
The Harare Residents Trust has said it is in fully supportive of the decision by the Harare City Council to demolish illegal structures that have been built on council land for sewerage treatment in K...Published: 28 Jul 2016 at 06:44hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Budiriro residents spend two weeks without water
Residents in Budiriro Harare have complained that they have s[pent two weeks without running water a development feared would spark diseases outbreak. Harare Residents Trust said reports from Budiriro...Published: 01 Apr 2016 at 08:54hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mapostori erect blair toilet near borehole
AS HARARE is battling with waterborne diseases, Vapostori in Highfied have erected a blair toilet on the windward side of a borehole, risking the lives of residents consuming the water as chances ...Published: 23 Oct 2014 at 17:24hrs | 2 | by Mirirai Nsingo
EMA wake up and show that you are alive
The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) must take serious consideration to the environmental conservation measures for the sustainability of economic development and protection of the environmen...Published: 15 Jul 2014 at 12:40hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
Unite to reduce water-borne diseases, health professionals say
Various stakeholders including health professionals say the persistent outbreaks of typhoid fever and diarrhoeal diseases require all Zimbabweans to unite in reducing the prevalence of water-borne dis...Published: 27 Jan 2013 at 11:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Waterborne diseases outbreak looms in Bulawayo suburbs
AN outbreak of waterborne diseases is looming in Bulawayo with some suburbs going for weeks without water, forcing residents to resort to using the bush to relieve themselves.Suburbs such as M...Published: 25 Oct 2012 at 05:13hrs | | by Health reporter
Farmers urged to vaccinate livestock
The Division of Veterinary Field Services says it is putting in place mechanisms to reduce the impact of livestock diseases such as black leg and anthrax as the rainy season approaches, the ZBC News r...Published: 02 Nov 2011 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
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