Mashava taps dry for a week

A HEALTH hazard is looming in the mining town of Mashava after over 700 residents, largely comprising of former mine workers and artisanal miners from Bere township, have gone for a week without running water.

The residents, who have been out of employment after the mine closed after being grabbed by government from Mutumwa Mawere, had resorted to unprotected water sources from a disused mine shaft for drinking water, leaving them at the risk of waterborne diseases.

“The situation has been so bad here that schoolchildren have stopped going to classes for fear of cholera.

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