fix this.please
Sharing more feedback from Kubatana’s fix this.please campaign…
I placed the stickers on open electricity pipes in Mutengeni lane. These wires were left open by Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) people in 2011 until now they did not repair. They dug holes and put wires out and left. People might fall and get electrified. I put some on a sewage pipe which was broken six months ago in Mazai area and sewage keeps coming out on roads. I put the other at a dumped NRZ wagon near Unilever. These wagons are used by prostitutes and street kids to do dirty works. People are raped, handbags stolen and they run to these wagons. (Mufakose, Harare)
I put stickers in Glen View 3 shopping centre public where toilets are blocked. Tichagarika shopping centre in Glen View 8 public toilets closed need to opened and cleaned. Traffic lights at the junction of Willovale road and Glen View Way not working.
Glen View 3 shopping centre public toilets closed 5 years ago. Need to be cleaned and opened. (Glen View, Harare)Stickers are at Nyamhuka turn off junction distance posters broken. Nyanga Rural District Council bin has been dropped off for more than two months. (Nyamuka, Nyanga)
Stickers at Glen Norah A Chitubu under structured market. The flushing system of the toilet is not working and the asbestos of the structure market is broken. Apart from that there is no electricity, no water. (Glen Norah, Harare)
I placed the stickers at corner Bank Street and Cameroon street robots and corner Mbuya Nehanda Street and Bank street robots, which are not working. During peak hours it is difficult for motorists to cross there, as they do not give way to each other. I also placed a sticker at robots near OK Julius Nyerere. At these robots I have seen a pedestrian being run over by car as they were crossing because some motorists don’t give way to pedestrians when robots are not functioning. (CBD, Harare)
I placed the stickers at Chikanga Shopping Centre where everyone got the information. (Chikanga, Mutare)
I placed stickers at the traffic light along Aerodrome Road, which has not been working for seven years. Many accidents have been occurring at the point. So there is need to get this fixed. (CBD, Mutare)
Wednesday, April 11th 2012 at 10:35 am
Thank you for the info, but is this really a solution? When are we as Zimbabweans going to realise that its not enough to point fingers at someone and say “fix this”? What is needed are solutions, and active involvement by the residents in fixing the problems. Lets, for a while, forget whose responsibility it is and get our country functioning.
Wednesday, April 11th 2012 at 11:14 am
Ok Lloyd so the next time you see a non-working traffic light in your area, or a broken sewage pipe hope you’re gonna get out your tool kit and go buy all the stuff that’s needed to fix the problem. Or maybe you can take time off work to direct traffic so accidents don’t happen. Zimbabweans are paid low wages, they pay high tax, multiple levies (think of where the road toll tax is going … fixing potholes?) never mind vast unemployment. City councils and governments have a responsibility to maintain public infrastructure. As citizens we have a responsibility to pay tax to help them do this. I don’t expect the council to come into my home to fix my plumbing but I do expect them to provide, for example, regular clean water so that disease is kept at bay and quality of life is maintained. In real terms Zimbabweans are fixing a lot of their own problems in community. Its a lot to ask, as well as being resoundingly unrealistic to suggest that citizens can fix, for example non working traffic lights.