Historical documents of the city that have been kept for
years are at risk of being destroyed as the water has filled the whole basement
where they are being kept.
So dire is the situation that Zesa has ordered the local
authority to switch off power to avoid a possible fire outbreak at the
premises.
However, the council has been reportedly adamantly defied
switching off power totally as it is now using a generator.
Two pumps that traditionally used to drain the water when
it sipped through the cracks along the foundation, are malfunctioning resulting
in the water flowing faster into the building.
Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume yesterday said they contacted the
National Archives of Zimbabwe and and Art Gallery to drain the water without
damaging the historical documents.
“There has been a problem and you must remember there has
been a lot of rains and there are cracks in the basement were water has sipped
into the building.
“We were going to pump it out using our water pumps. We had
a meeting with the National Archives and the Art Gallery. There are some
documents that are in that basement, historical documents that need a certain
type of draining to be done in order to preserve them,” he said. Herald
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