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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Situation on the Mocambique road



Please advise your readers to please check on the state of the convoy before leaving Zim.
I would advise people not to travel as there have been 2 reported incidents in the last 48 hours between Muxungwe and the Save River.
Until the situation changes and the facts become clear please do not use this road.
Best regards
Martin

Monday, October 28, 2013

Death Notices



Death Notice: Woodhouse Jean – Darling mother to Colleen, Natalie, Raymond and Nevil - Grandmother and Great Granny – passed away Saturday 19th October 2013.  A service will be held on Tuesday 29th October 2013, in the Fairways Chapel, at 11am, please join us to celebrate her life and give thanks. Contact email: Colleen    piringani7@bigpond.com

Death Notice: Michael Chan brother to Daphne and Pierre Neethling passed away peacefully on Friday 25 October 2013. The funeral will be held at Highlands Presbyterian Church Arcturus Road Highlands Harare on Thursday 31 October 2013 at 10 am.

Armed Robbery 22 october 2013



Armed robbery
Milton park RRB. 1880452
Toyota nadia
Silver
No number plates at the rear

This vehicles has 3 black males they are Armd with a pistol and a knife

This happened about 15min ago along princes road in belvedere


There is a white Toyota sprinter with no number plates moving around the Milton park,Belvedere areas with 5 males. Robbing people  please be alert -zrp crime watch-


Dan Daya
Mobile +263 772 257907

Pomona Burning



HI All
We have started placing photos of the Burning at Pomona Quarry on our Facebook page – see them on bambazonke nhasi

If anyone has taken any other photos today please send to Leanna  leannatbamba@gmail.com so that she can post them and let readers know what the current situation is there

We have already had our first $100 contribution from one of our readers – FX Logistics – and a few comments

I Have spoken to Mr Chibanda from the City Council just now and he is out there trying to work out to sort things out expeditiously. The army has apparently send a bulldozer there now but they ideally need about 3

Lets make this happen today
Regards
Mike

Readers Comments: On Monday managed to get 10 proper masks donated by James North for the workers who are right on site trying to control the burning.  MM delivered on site, arranged closer water source with private resident for the trucks to refill and also approached graders on side of the Road to assist with moving dumped sand on site….I will always remember when the floods hit Brisbane 80 000 people and their trucks machinery etc. came to the rescue.  May everyone in our City work together to Help the Council with this disaster.   Kind regards Sharon
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Just dropped the first hundred off from our company now... my son has been sent home from school with headache and nausea today and we live on Northwood Rise. I am sure it is all related!! I hope you get more funds in to get this out as even I am struggling to breathe, so the old and young will be effected much more. I have asked all my friends on FB to ask their companies to see if we can help you sort out this problem.


Once again I was horrified when I went for my morning exercise on Sunday and saw - from a considerable distance - a cloud so big it looked like Harare was under attack. Pomona dump is on fire and this is a major 'Air-Pocalypse' event. The swathe of toxic airborne matter from the fire was travelling in a south westerly direction over Alex Park and Avondale towards the city centre. 

I have said much about the hazards of burning leaves, but allow me to remind everyone how serious burning non-organic waste is. (This is also to the person who commented on my last letter that burning rubbish is better than having it littering the roadsides). 

Burning plastics which contain organochlorines such as PVC releases dioxins. Dioxins disrupt hormones in the body, and are extremely carcinogenic causing cancer, deformed offspring, reproductive failures, and auto-immune diseases. After release into the atmosphere they settle on crops and in our waterways. They are persistent, and last for years. In the body they accumulate in body fat and can be passed onto the unborn foetus. They accumulate in animals at the top of the food chain: i.e. humans!

The burning of polystyrene polymers - such as foam cups, meat trays, egg containers, yogurt and deli containers, releases styrene. Styrene gas can readily be absorbed through the skin and lungs. At high levels styrene vapor can damage the eyes and mucous membranes. Long term exposure to styrene can affect the central nervous system, causing headaches, fatigue, weakness, and depression.

Those are just two in the veritable soup of toxic chemicals that would have been released in the fire from discarded batteries, rubber tyres, etc.

The World Health Organisation announced last week that it has been scientifically validated that air pollution causes lung cancer - it is now considered more dangerous than passive cigarette or cigar smoke.

It's high time the authorities (police, fire, City Council, municipality, EMA) started taking public health seriously and implement a zero tolerance policy for environmental offenders. City management urgently needs to upgrade our waste management policies, and carry out pollution awareness campaigns. 

If you feel upset about being gassed out of your home, go and register your complaint to your local District Office, police station, fire station, or phone EMA on 792772 or 252087. The more noise we collectively make the quicker something will get done.

Dr Lisa Marabini
BVSc, MRCVS
Director, AWARE Trust
Cell: 0712 886650
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