Staff Reporter
RENCO MINE – The new Masvingo South’s ward 25 councilor who is also the first opposition councilor in the ward since 1980 Tarusenga Mapamba seem to have hit the ground running as he is putting solutions to water challenges in some parts of the ward.
Though he said they were just short term solutions while putting measure in place to have long term solutions, the move has been described by many as noble especially when the country is grappling with cholera outbreak.
Disaster was looming at Masarasara primary school where teachers and pupils endured the scotching sun without water for some weeks and the councilor intervened by engaging Renco Mine to provide water for the school with a bowser.
“I was invited for a meeting at the school which was meant to discuss the water challenge issue, I was told that they had sunk a 50 meter solar powered borehole which only served the school for three months. They then engaged other stakeholders who failed to help them.
“People raised different solutions like flushing the existing borehole or find a new site to sink a new one.
“That is when I said while we wait for a lasting solution let me engage the mine to help since we are in a cholera epidemic and the situation would force teachers to transfer to other schools and we would lose experienced teachers. So the mine agreed and the current arrangement is that mine delivers a 15000 litre bowser every Tuesday,” said Mapamba.
Mapamba went on to say he had facilitated for the repair of Mukazi borehole and have since engaged some guy who fixes boreholes to look into one that is in Chiponda village.
“I facilitated for the fixing of Mukazi borehole which had not been working for a long time, I have asked the guy to look at the one in Chiponda which is also not working,” said Mapamba
He also said through his intervention, the mine provided a water bowser twice a week in Chiponda and Ruchicha villages.
“Every Monday and Friday water bowsers are delivered to Chiponda and Ruchicha villages and villagers are getting safe water from there,” said Mapamba
