HARARE City council has banned the rearing of chickens in backyards saying this was against by laws.
Director of Health Services Dr Prosper Chonzi insisted that council by-laws (1962) have to be respected.
“No poultry house shall be placed nearer than three metres from any boundary or nearer than six metres from premises used for human habitation,” he reminded residents. “No person shall keep any poultry by reasons of continued crowing, quacking clucking, gobbling or like noise tends to destroy the comfort of neighbourhood.”
He said those found on the wrong side of the law will be prosecuted. Howeversaid the poultry projects were their only source of income adding that not every unemployed person could sell tomatoes and trinkets.
“I lost my job in June last year and, with my $200 retrenchment package I started keeping poultry for sell. This is my only source of income; how do they want me to survive with my family,” said Milton Moyo from Budiriro 5 high density suburb.
A Mt Pleasant resident said the city needs to change its outdated by-laws as life in Zimbabwe has changed.
“They wrote to me saying that if I continue to keep poultry I will be prosecuted but this is my house,” declared Tim Mandishona.
“The said neighbours are my customers and they never complained about any noise. We will meet in court! “This Smith regime law must be abolished to suit our Zimbabwean way of living.”
Mandishona said if the local authority felt residential areas were not ideal then it must provide them with alternative places to operate from.
Most residents in Harare are making a killing by keeping poultry in their backyards as customers shun South African imports which they say are genetically modified and tasteless.
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Shame on you for being such an ignorant but arrogant lazy thinker!! Who told you there is “empirical scientific evidence” that 3 metres is safe??!! To show that you’ve no basic appreciation of matters scientific, has any scientific study been done to prove that people having less than a 3-metre distance from their fowl run were all falling ill??!!
It’s at times like these that one seriously wonders: are the city fathers actually resident in Harare or do they stay on Mars, occasionally paying 10-minute visits to the Zim capital??!! Honestly, how can one want to enforce Rhodesian 1962 by-laws in the present context of such high unemployment??!! What do they want people to do to support their families…turn to theft or prostitution??!!
“Noise tends to destroy the comfort of the neighbourhood”. How about they also ban the church behind my backyard that is a source of noise in the residential areas, or ban the non collection of gabbage as it also destroys our comfort. Oh, and while at it, also ban dry taps from yards.
I have reared two hundred chickens indoors continuously, in very smart indoor with sawdust on plastic on cement floor to raise money for a higher project in the house I live. I never got sick and had the best, heaviest and whitest chicken in my hood. In our rural home we have chicken all over even in kitchen and pecking from our plates and never sick. You even eat chicken with no fear of sickness. What empirical evidence do you know about people keeping chickens and getting sick? Why not ban dogs near homes as well?
Then how do you link fighting racist laws with AIDS? Did you get AIDs from a chicken? Learn from others why Smith had to give blacks very small stands knowing they loved livestock, then you will know why you celebrate 18 April every year, IDIOT!!!
Zimbabwe will never sieze to amaze me. Where do you think people should go and do business. After all this is just cheap business for survival. More than 80 percent unemployment and you still want people to suffer.Realy what are you up to you folks. You dont want to change reprecive laws that were left by other opressive regimes like yours but you preach freedom. Freedom from what heh? Let the people surviver nxaa.
Zimbabwe will never sieze to amaze me. Where do you think people should go and do business. After all this is just cheap business for survival. More than 80 percent unemployment and you still want people to suffer.Realy what are you up to you folks. You dont want to change reprecive laws that were left by other opressive regimes like yours but you preach freedom. Freedom from what heh? Let the people surviver nxaa.
Zimbabwe is trying to correct things amid huge difficulties which they are ignoring because they know nothing can be done till one important event takes place. That event is delaying.
u know sometimes i juss feel we should not blame , this is the best their heads can do.i know a company in chi-town which has been polluting the river water for over 7 years since they opened y not focus on really serious health hazards .the purpose is to milk us dry of every single penny in our pockets. Soon vegetables will be deemed harmful.its better they focus on more important not huku mbiri .we are a very poor country w shld make sure that the ppl in our country are well fed and if it means we are going to have a cow each muHarare macho ndizvozvo some productive African countries are doing this
u know sometimes i juss feel we should not blame , this is the best their heads can do.i know a company in chi-town which has been polluting the river water for over 7 years since they opened y not focus on really serious health hazards .the purpose is to milk us dry of every single penny in our pockets. Soon vegetables will be deemed harmful.its better they focus on more important not huku mbiri .we are a very poor country w shld make sure that the ppl in our country are well fed and if it means we are going to have a cow each muHarare macho ndizvozvo some productive African countries are doing this
Urimboko change1. why cant you offer solutions to the residents who have to survive in such harsh economic conditions. Dont just comment for the fun of it. I does not mean that everyone is employed like you or can kill to safeguard your future. People need jobs
Urimboko change1. why cant you offer solutions to the residents who have to survive in such harsh economic conditions. Dont just comment for the fun of it. I does not mean that everyone is employed like you or can kill to safeguard your future. People need jobs
That is stupid. So u think if Smith said 3meters was a safe distance health-wise, proved with empirical evidence, getting your independence will change it to 1meter? Thats why AIDS is killing you, idiots! You think Independence is everything!
then give people jobs don’t just barn the way people are making a living. what do you want people to do? please be human.