Cholera outbreak blamed on Mugabe sanitation policy

Following the March 29 elections, which Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is believed to have won, water and sewerage reticulation functions were wrestled from MDC-dominated municipalities and concentrated in the hands of the incapacitated and dysfunctional Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA).

The city of Harare, the epicentre of the cholera epidemic, draws its water for domestic, industrial and other uses from Lake Chivero or Lake Mcllwaine, so named after the late Sir Robert Mcllwaine, a former judge of the Zimbabwe High Court and soil and water conservationist.