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RELIGIOUS leaders and traditional healers are singing in the corner of businessman Wicknell Chivayo and have praised his donation of vehicles to a number of artists. Anointed Family International Church’s Prophet Mange Chigova said: “Thank you Sir Wicknell for handing over what God has blessed you and Zimbabwe with, you are being honest to God […]

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Source: Miner hands over US$220K clinic -Newsday Zimbabwe

BUHERA-based Sabi Star Mine has completed the construction and procurement of medical equipment for Mukubu Community Clinic as the lithium miner seeks to improve access to primary healthcare services for surrounding communities.

The clinic, which has since been handed over to the Buhera Rural District Council (RDC), is equipped with modern a pharmacy.

“The cumulative cost to construct and furnish the clinic is around US$220 000,” Sabi Star Mine manager Engineer Oswald Makonese said.

“We are confident that the local community will benefit from this health facility. This is because we value the wellbeing of the community in which we do business.”

The construction of the clinic started two years ago as an initiative by the local community before it was taken over by Sabi Star Mine.

Previously, villagers had to walk several kilometres to access health care at either Chiweshe or Chiwenga Clinics.

 

 

Ward 12 councillor James Mhlanga said they approached the mine after facing difficulties to raise funding to finish building the clinic.

“Fortunately, the mine gave us a favourable response and agreed to fund the construction and purchase of medical equipment. We are grateful to the mine for such a gesture,” Mhlanga said.

Buhera RDC chief executive officer, Emilia Chibvongodze said: “The generous delivery of the clinic equipment will improve the access of the health services delivery to our community and contribute to the National Development Strategy 1, whereby the Government of Zimbabwe is working to make sure that health services provision is accessible to everyone by the year 2030.”

 

 

In most rural areas, villagers have to travel long distances to access primary health care services.

Even where healthcare services are available and affordable, there is always a shortage in the supply of medical drugs, especially in rural parts of Zimbabwe.

Last year, Sabi Star Mine won an Excellence in Community Empowerment and Social Leadership Award at the 2023 Zimbabwe National ESG and CSR Awards.

The company was also awarded a community champion accolade for developing the community through infrastructure development, schools support and raising the standard of living.

Last year, Sabi Star Mine established four community gardens in four villages in the district.

The mine also drilled 18 boreholes in the community equipped with solar pumps; 10 boreholes were drilled at schools and eight were drilled in strategic places in the surrounding villages in consultation with the local leadership.

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Source: BCC turns to boreholes, as water crisis deepens – The Southern Eye

BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has moved in to fix all malfunctioning boreholes belonging to residents and other stakeholders as it seeks to lessen the city’s water woes.

This emerged during a meeting organised by the Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) early this week.

 

 

Representing the council, ward 3 councillor, Mxolisi Mahlangu said the local authority wants to make sure that all boreholes that are not working are fixed.

“These boreholes are in communities where there are councillors and they have started coming forward with the list of boreholes that need fixing. The department of engineering is seized with it,” Mahlangu said.

“They are boreholes already that they have started fixing and so it’s a process that they are doing

 

“But also bear in mind that there is the issue of spares and those require foreign currency, so sometimes it might take time for them to be repaired at the speed that the residents want  because they will be a challenge of spares constraints.”

Mahlangu did not have available statistics on how many boreholes are targeted for fixing.

BPRA director, Permanent Ngoma welcomed the council’s intervention.

Bulawayo residents are going for several days without water owing to depressed water levels at the city’s supply dams.

 

The city’s raw water reservoirs are said to be at 41% full, with council warning early this week that two more dams, Lower Ncema and Upper Ncema, will also be decommissioned in the next few months due to fast depleting water stocks.

The council has already decommissioned Umzingwane over low water supplies.

In February, government said it had repaired 35 of 50 malfunctioning boreholes at the Nyamandlovu Aquifer as a stop-gap measure, but this has hardly made a dent on the country’s second largest city’s water woes.

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Muziwethemba Harvey Gwabeni (36), the alleged mastermind who orchestrated the hit on South African rapper Kearnan Forbes, better known as AKA, confirmed receiving R800 000, which he says was for the work he had done. Bounty was for rapper’s head The sum of money is alleged to have been paid for AKA’s head, who was […]

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In a harrowing incident that has left the community of Siamputeni Village 44 in Binga, Matabeleland North Province, reeling, a 16-year-old boy has been declared mentally fit to stand trial after allegedly raping and gruesomely dismembering his 17-year-old cousin. The shocking crime has sent shockwaves through the area, leaving residents in disbelief. The teenager, whose […]

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