The city council of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city, has issued a warning to residents of a possible outbreak of disease following a massive cut in the city’s water supply. This is the first time in Bulawayo’s history such a health warning has been issued. ”Water will be available for seven hours in every two days and during that time people are advised to fill their containers and cover them up.
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/ 16 February 2007
A government directive to take over the management of Bulawayo’s water and sewerage reticulation has triggered a war of words with residents. They are alleging political skullduggery, which is likely to cost the ruling Zanu-PF future votes in Matabeleland, a long-standing opposition turf.
About 80 families in Bulawayo lost electrical appliances after a freak surge of electricity was pumped into their homes, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Monday. ”The voltage was just too high because my stove turned red hot in a few seconds,” said resident Paulos Ncube, whose television, radio and stove were damaged.
Zimbabwe’s overstretched health facilities are finding it hard enough to cater for living patients — but now one hospital doesn’t even have room for the dead. Bodies are piling up on the floor at the morgue at Mpilo Central Hospital in the city of Bulawayo and no more corpses are being accepted, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported.
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/ 26 November 2004
President Robert Mugabe is expected to read the riot act to Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial leaders on Friday over simmering dissent within his party. Mugabe is due to meet senior Zanu-PF Bulawayo politicians to tackle the infighting which intensified after Sunday’s controversial nomination of new party leaders.
Famine has claimed the lives of 152 people, mostly children, in the western Zimbabwe city of Bulawayo, it was reported in Harare on Sunday. The weekly independent Standard newspaper quoted Bulawayo health department records, saying that 29 people had died of malnutrition in July.
Sixty-three people, 48 of them children, died from hunger last month in Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo, a health official was quoted as saying in a newspaper report on Friday.
Sixty-five people, most of them children under the age of five, have died of malnutrition and other hunger-related causes in the Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo over the past five months. The highest number of malnutrition deaths in the city were of babies and children between the ages of one month and five years.
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/ 5 February 2003
Australian cricket authorities have decided not to follow their English counterparts in demanding that World Cup matches planned in strife-torn Zimbabwe this month be moved to South Africa, says a representative.
Bulawayo | Friday POLICE used teargas to break up a riot on Friday in Zimbabwe’s second largest city, Bulawayo, after pro-government militias staged attacks in a populous township and met resistance from residents. The riot began around 8am (0600 GMT) in Sizenda township, where residents had teamed up to stone the militia base at a […]