How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
"Why are we so concerned with investors? Who are these investors, the thieves who have colonised us, stole our resources and frog marched our people out of their rightful land? These are the investors that we must not chase away? Fellow Afrikans, you mean to tell me that we must be careful that we do not offend thieves? And by the way, what exactly are they investing on because Afrika remains underdeveloped despite the fact that investors have been around for decades? Investors who invest in their own interests are the ones we must be careful to not offend?..." -Cde Chirimandza (ZANU PF representative here at the SADC Region Land and Agrarian Reform workshop)
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