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 It means everybody has to flush their toilet at the stipulated time which will be 7:30 pm. This is done to prevent any sewer blockages as we anticipate longer periods without wate 

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“We are going to have a big flush every Monday to push all the waste that would have accumulated during the water rationing,” Thaba Moyo, mayor of Bulawayo, told AFP.

“It means everybody has to flush their toilet at the stipulated time which will be 7:30 pm. This is done to prevent any sewer blockages as we anticipate longer periods without water” in the sewer system, he said.

He said residents could also flush their toilets at other times of day.

Bulawayo’s chronic water shortages force the city authorities to order rationing, which reduces the amount of water getting into the sewer system.

Currently the city rations water for 72 hours each week.

Moyo said Bulawayo’s chief engineer suggested the simultaneous flush.

“We are urging residents to bear with us as this is nobody’s fault,” Moyo said.

“It’s a national problem. Most cities are having water shortages, and we are hoping that the supplies will last until the rainy season and pray that we have good rains.” 

Poor hygiene and sanitation have caused numerous disease outbreaks in Zimbabwe in recent years.

The problem is especially acute in suburbs, some of which go for weeks without running water as cities battle to maintain services.

Last October, more than 6,000 cases of diarrhoea were reported in the southern towns of Masvingo and Kadoma, with children the worst affected.

  Four years ago more than 4,000 people died of cholera during an outbreak that affected nearly 100,000 people.

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Wed May 22 17:43:19 SAST 2013 ::

Sep 23, 2012

sechaba30

lol, eish bra Mugabe
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Sep 24, 2012

MommaC

Tjo maar hulle is vol k@k, ne
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Sep 24, 2012

skwamasamabele

imagine answering a call of nature, and having to text everyone suspected of going for a sh*t: 'Ngiyobhosha in 2 minutes, dont flush before 3.30 so we can all flush at the same time'. I cant see it catching on. Mugabe, your engineers need to be sacked for incompetency and causing sh*tloads of problems. God knows who had a light-bulb moment,NX!!
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Sep 25, 2012

MorenaWaPolelo

If all of you flash at the same time the pressure will blow the pipes!!! Which foools suggested this?
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Sep 25, 2012

Limpopoist

They say Zim have better skill than south african...BUT with these poor engineering idiology I still beliueve south africa are way far better than ZIM..

Unless for an excuse for cheap immigrant labor
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Sep 25, 2012

Seja-Bana

kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa wka wka wka ...............................hey everyione its 7:30, let all K@K now..................how cana sewer e bloke ke gonya.....................pumpers and le di pads ke tsona tse di blokang.

why can they collec water from the streams and pour it in the manholes, that will work. not flushing at the same time, imagine how many people are flushing now.

they mus all have watsup, twitter and facebook in the fones so that if one needs to k@k, he will tweet/ facebook/ watsup everyone to prepare them for flushing.........waht a dump statement by the mayor.
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Sep 25, 2012

inkwenkweemdaka

if o flusha ka 07H31 o tlo thola thupa, heish uncle bob ka thupa
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Sep 25, 2012

Seja-Bana

i want to pass ther when i go to vic falls, i also want to be part of the flushing initiative.
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Sep 25, 2012

BraSipho

Eish!! Our brothers to the north are much tooo clever!

And then he says that it is nobodys fault!!
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Sep 25, 2012

DrunkenMaster

Maybe he is Blaming it on Britain & America for that K@K factor.
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