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BY SILAS NKALA THE Environmental Management Agency (Ema) has exposed Bulawayo City Council’s continued failure to timeously repair burst sewer pipes and collect waste in residential areas, a development which may trigger the outbreak of diseases such as cholera and diarrhoea in the city. Ema made the revelations in a response dated January 25 to a petition submitted by Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) on January 14, demanding the disclosure of its charges against BCC for its failure to address the sewerage burst problems and waste collection. Responding to the petition, Ema Bulawayo manager Sithembisiwe Ndlovu said BCC had a wide range of environmental issues, among them sewage discharge into the environment ranking the highest, resulting in pollution of both surface and ground water sources. “In the positive, BCC has been one of the leading city models in the appropriate management of solid waste until recently (2020) festive season, when it highlighted that they had fuel challenges, of which the challenge was shortlived, but the workers’ strike worsened the situation,” she said. Ndlovu said there was continued discharge of raw sewage into the environment by BCC through malfunctioning pump stations, sewer treatment plants, collapsed sewer pipes and bursts. “The major problem area is the Sauerstown deep section and Silver Crescent in Kelvin West, where sewage is being discharged into the environment, resulting in pollution,” Ndlovu said. “The agency has been engaging BCC on the need to address these challenges and has been issuing orders and tickets to BCC for poor sewerage management. Dockets have also been opened for major discharges. “A total of 34 orders and five tickets have been issued to the council for the period 2011 to 2020.” She said Bulawayo had been thriving to be different from other local authorities in terms of waste management as it came up with good initiatives such as community sweeping groups, use of community trucks for waste collection, Bulawayo solid waste improvement platform and tollfree number and call centre. Ndlovu said during the 2020 festive season, BCC was no longer collecting waste. She said when they engaged the council cleaning department, they were told of fuel challenges and the period saw an increase in the uncollected waste and illegal dump sites across the city, adding that this became worse when the council workers went on strike. The council workers had gone on strike early this month demanding better salaries as the least paid were getting less than $2 000. “The agency has started mapping dumps in most affected areas such Makokoba and Mzilikazi suburbs so as to prepare orders to serve BCC to clear the waste as it does not condone the prevailing situation in the city,” Ndlovu said. “The agency will continue to follow up pending court cases until they are finalised.” MIHR co-ordinator Khumbulani Maphosa had requested Ema to make available to the public the measures it had taken to hold BCC accountable to its environmental rights violations. “Our request for this
Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
LIMA, (Reuters) - More than a dozen people were crushed to death or asphyxiated as partygoers tried to flee a Lima nightclub after it was raided by police for hosting a party in violation of coronavirus restrictions.
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A shift to mail voting is increasing the chances that Americans will not know the winner of November’s presidential race on election night, a scenario that is fueling worries about whether President Donald Trump will use the delay to sow doubts about the results.
State election officials in some key battleground states have recently warned that it may take days to count what they expect will be a surge of ballots sent by mail out of concern for safety amid the pandemic.
And while some states count the ballots as they come in, others — notably the critical battlegrounds of Michigan and Pennsylvania — have laws that forbid processing mail ballots until Election Day, guaranteeing the count will extend well past that night.
In Michigan and Pennsylvania, two states that helped hand Trump his 2016 victory, Democrats have pushed to relax the laws forbidding them from processing ballots before Election Day but faced GOP resistance.
Another factor that could delay the count is Democrats’ push to require states to accept mail ballots postmarked on Election Day.
Kiwanis Club of West St Andrew President Courtney Morgan (left) is joined by members of his executive as he hands over boxes of girls' clothing to Meisha Simon (right), house mother at the The St Andrew Parish Church Home for Girls in Kingston 10, recently.
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The Associated Press The Latest on Hurricane Laura: LAKE CHARLES, La. — Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said state officials now know of four deaths tied to Hurricane Laura. The deaths were all caused by trees falling on residences, Edwards said. None were on the coast, having happened in Vernon, Jackson and Acadia parishes. One death in Jackson in north Louisiana demonstrated the power of the storm, which made landfall as a Category 4 storm early Thursday, and traveled farther inland. Edwards said the current priority is search and rescue, followed by efforts to find hotel or motel rooms for […]
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… following the police shooting of African-American man Jacob Blake last month … white, with the majority of African-Americans living in the greater Milwaukee …
