Zimbabwe: Urban Dwellers Carting Water
Rainfall shortages at the dams that supply water to Zimbabwe's second largest city, Bullawayo, have forced many residents to bring the essential resource to their homes in the same way most rural populations do - by carrying it from a borehole well.
A child pushes an orange Water Roller, which has the same capacity as the four jerry cans carried by her companion.
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So after 32 years of "independence" from the previous colonial empire, what has happened to the infrastructure promised?????? Absolutely nothing. Where is the pipeline from the Zambezi river to Bulawayo and surrounds? Bob has let the people down big time and he could of used the diamond money to complete this project and the people of Bulawayo would of been a lot happier.
George you forget that this is an opposition stronghold and Ndebele - so forget Bob. This is how a dictator controls the people. And anyway he has spent it all on keeping his army and such in power and of course people like Takunya who received a free farm.
A few years back when the water from the Khami Dam in Bulawayo had become so polluted for lack of chemicals, I remember those people who had had no drums to collect rain water from their roofs had to collect water from pot holes with mugs into buckets. Mark Mr Joshua Nkomo's words that, "Mugabe and his Shona henchmen have always sought the extermination of the Ndebele."