Archive for July 2015
Food for thought
An official report shows that just four of the 29 grain silos at Lions’ Den are usable after years of neglect. Most of the unusable ones are cracked and crumbling inside and out. The depot was built in the 1970s and silos of this type need re-lining and re-sealing after about 15-20 years to protect…
Read MorePope Francis seems like a good bloke …
Pope Francis seems like a good bloke, but didn’t they all at one time or another in recent decades, if not in the more distant history of the Roman Catholic Church when they were corrupt and cruel? Mr Mugabe has asked Francis to come to Africa. Here’s remembering Pope John Paul’s southern African trip (from Andrew…
Read MoreThe water ‘ATM.’ Good thinking, but why not here?
In Kenya’s waterless townships and shanties, the Nairobi municipality is installing the water ‘ATM.’ Consumers buy a charge card and insert it to fill a chigubu from a tap below. Clean water costs a couple of cents, a tiny fraction of the foul-smelling polluted river and stream water touts and vendors sell for 50 Kenya…
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