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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Lack of Clean Groundwater a Health Threat

SOUTHERN AFRICA: BULAWAYO , Oct 09 (IPS) - As the rainy season approaches, and sewage from pit latrines seep further into the Zimbabwe's groundwater, Irene Ngubeni will be at risk as the country faces another possible cholera ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  9 Oct 2009

EDUCATION-ZIMBABWE: Students Quit Classes - and Country - As Crisis Deepens

EDUCATION-ZIMBABWE: BULAWAYO, Oct 8 (IPS) - Schooling is increasingly becoming a privilege of the rich, , Zimbabwean parents and teachers' unions complain. The country's cash-strapped education ministry is charging a fee of 20 U.S. dollars ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  8 Oct 2009
Related Topics: UNICEF,  David Coltart,  European Union,  United Nations

ZIMBABWE: Football Fails to Feed Families

ZIMBABWE: BULAWAYO, Sep 18 (IPS) - Football was never a ticket to fabulous wealth in Zimbabwe, at least not for players who stayed in the country. But the economic situation has made it ever harder to play simply for the pride and pleasure ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  18 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Gilbert Banda

POLITICS-AFRICA: Zimbabweans Rubbish SADC’s Sanctions Call

POLITICS-AFRICA: BULAWAYO, Sept. 09 (IPS) - Southern African leaders have once again failed the people of Zimbabwe by making a show of support for the countrys long-serving dictator. The unresolved issues plaguing Zimbabwes coalition ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  9 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Robert Mugabe,  Joseph Kabila,  International Monetary Fund,  Tendai Biti

ZIMBABWE: Use of Foreign Money Becoming Political Football Again

ZIMBABWE: TSHOLOTSHO, Zimbabwe, Aug 26 (IPS) - Dorothy Tembo wears a look that tells a story of years of hard work. She dotes over her grandchildren and enjoys talking about the past. A keen observer of the history happening around her, ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  27 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Tendai Biti,  Robert Mugabe

HEALTH-ZIMBABWE: No Treatment for Ill as State Doctors Strike

HEALTH-ZIMBABWE: BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Aug 24 (IPS) - Before, Zimbabwean families would take their ill relatives to rural clinics where medication was readily able and payment plans lenient. But now they are taking them there to ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  24 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Department of Health,  United Nations

ZIMBABWE: Neglect Sanitation at Your Peril

ZIMBABWE: BULAWAYO, Jul 30 (IPS) - A functioning public toilet has become a rare sight in Bulawayo. Across this southern Zimbabwean city of about two million residents, public toilets have all but stopped functioning, the buildings now ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Investor Absence Fuels Retrenchments

DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: BULAWAYO, Jun 22 (IPS) - Forty-year-old Thelma Dube was this month told by her long-time employer to stay home. She will be called back to work when business picks up. Her husband got the same instruction, as did ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  22 Jun 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Robert Mugabe,  Tendai Biti,  International Monetary Fund,  Nelson Chamisa

ZIMBABWE: Long Road to Water Sustainability

ZIMBABWE: BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, May 21 (IPS) - As funds begin trickling in for Zimbabwes reconstruction efforts, the rebuilding of infrastructure battered by years of neglect is set to gobble a huge chunk. As Zimbabwe's national unity ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  21 May 2009
Related Topics: Tendai Biti

ZIMBABWE: Urban Residents Left Behind by Dollarisation

ZIMBABWE: BULAWAYO, Apr 28 (IPS) - Cash-strapped residents of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city are digging in their heels and refusing to pay utility bills despite the municipality teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. At the heart of the ...

From IGNATIUS BANDA, Inter Press Service,  28 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Tendai Biti

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