21 January 2009 No.13 - Zimbabwe Parliament

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On the motion of the Minister of the Small and Medium Enterprises
Development: Debate adjourned until tomorrow.
4. On the motion of the Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises
Development: The House adjourned at five minutes to five o’clock.
L. N. MOYO
Speaker.
THURSDAY, 22 ND JANUARY 2009
ORDERS OF THE DAY AND NOTICES OF MOTIONS
1. HON MAVIMA
HON HLONGWANE
CONCERNED with the ever increasing number of deaths linked and or
related to cholera within Zimbabwe, and the lack of an aggressive and focused
response by the National Water Authority to play its rightful role in providing
safe drinking water and sanitation to the nation;
NOTING that as of 14 th December, 2008 approximately 700 people
countrywide had died of cholera and in excess of 10,000 people had been
infected with the disease as per reports from the Ministry of Health and Child
Welfare, and:
FURTHER NOTING that more people are likely to die or become infected
as the outbreak takes its toll throughout the country;
ACKNOWLEDGING the efforts of the Civil Protection Unit (CPU) calling
on all stakeholders to be involve with maximum effort to combat the outbreak
and admitting that the outbreak had now taken a national scope: and
appreciating the establishment of the cabinet task force on cholera by
government, and the call by the Minister of Health and Child Welfare for local
and international well wishers including UNICEF, WHO, and other
organizations to come in full force to assist the country in combating this
disaster;
APPRECIATING the assistance rendered by our friendly neighbours, in
particular, The Republics of Namibia and South Africa in providing drugs and
other medical equipment and consumables to fight the deadly cholera disease;
CONCERNED that ZINWA does not have the capacity nor the resources to
provide safe drinking water and sanitation to the citizens of Zimbabwe
particularly under such trying times and or in the near future;
FURTHER NOTING that most households and public institutions now go
for weeks on end without any safe and treated running water and sanitation;
RECOGNISING that capacity to effectively distribute, treat and manage
water supply was efficiently done by various Municipalities in the country
prior to the take over by ZINWA and;