Following a flash storm that swept through Harare on Tuesday afternoon causing traffic jams and leaving a trail of destruction, NewsDay online team visited Nenyere Flats in Mbare to find out how the residents were coping after the storm.
Report By Tinotenda Samukange/Cynthia Matonhodze (pics and audio)
Families have been seeking shelter from neighbours and most indicated they didn’t know when help would reach them.
The magnitude of the damage is shown in our photobucket collage of pictures.
Shamiso Chidzambwa said: “The government must resettle us in a temporal shelter whilst they renovate our old dilapidated buildings. The storm just simply exacerbated an already desperate situation”, she said.
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Nyasha Shamu another resident said children have not been going to school because of the damage to their books and the trauma that the storm caused.
“The government should also give a hand in providing replacements of the soaked books as the current environment now discourages children to go to school,” he said.
However, a comment from the former Member of parliament for Mbare Tendai Savanhu drew a hostile confrontation as he set youth believed to be the notorious Chipangano team on the NewsDay crew.
Savanhu told the more than 15 youths to “deal with these journalists who must be from the BBC.”
On leaning that the journalist were from NewsDay he added: “Bepa renyu rinotuka nekushora huremu hwapresident (your newspaper always derides the credibility of the president)”
