CHITUNGWIZA residents said they were battling a myriad of service delivery challenges, which include uncollected garbage, erratic water supplies, burst sewers, and have given up hope of getting normal services from the local authority.
In separate interviews, the residents said the local authority was not attending to their concerns and many homes were littered with waste.
“Council said they had no gloves to attend to the sewers.
It is not good, particularly with children around,” Mathews Gwata, who lives in St Mary’s, said.
Some parts of Zengeza 5 have gone for weeks without garbage collection.
Residents are now dumping their rubbish in skip bins at shopping centres or at illegal sites.
The last cholera outbreak, which emanated in Glen View resulted in deaths of more than 50 people and hundreds more infected.
Government and stakeholders responded by launching a cholera vaccination campaign, targeting 1,4 million people in high risk areas.
It is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called vibrio cholera.
This disease thrives where there is a lack of clean water, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene and overcrowding.