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Residents in the Harare high-density suburb of Glen View fetch water from a borehole sunk in the area by UNICEF. The boreholes routinely fail to cope when there is widespread failure of the water delivery system for days on end as is happening now. This means residents resort to unsafe water sources, some even getting their water from open sewage systems that have not been repaired by the City Council despite claims by the Unity Government in Harare of "improvements and progress" Harare, Zimbabwe, 11 April 2010 Vast sections of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital have been without water for more than a week now as the City Fathers in the MDC-T controlled Council adopt the ZANU PF way of not bothering to inform ratepayers of what the problem is or even if it will be solved. With taps in areas as diverse as Kuwadzana, Highfields, Glen Norah and even Chitungwiza completely dry, residents have once again started getting their water from unprotected sources, including the chemically-po...

"Let Me Eat Cake." Robert Mugabe at his last birthday party. It turns out that millions of US dollars are being spent on "State residences" and this includes groceries for Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe while their supporters starve to death either because they can not afford to buy food or because they did not harvest enough last year. Tendai Biti is exposing them all bit by bit and, if the "Principals" were decent fellows, they would be ashamed to show their faces in public now. Harare, Zimbabwe, 12 December 2009 I love Tendai Biti's transparency. The Finance Minister and MDC-Tsvangirai Secretary-General is not a "Principal" so he can not control the wasteful decisions and glutton of his boss, Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert "The Solution" Mugabe. All he can do is expose these two incompetent gentlemen. And that is what he has done. Biti tells us that US$1.8 million was spent on "State residences" in the last year. Thi...