{"id":223197,"date":"2026-02-08T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mabvuku-tafara-group-turns-waste-into-livelihoods\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:20:00","slug":"zimbabwe-mabvuku-tafara-group-turns-waste-into-livelihoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mabvuku-tafara-group-turns-waste-into-livelihoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mabvuku-Tafara Group Turns Waste Into Livelihoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">A community group in Mabvuku-Tafara, eastern Harare is transforming household waste into income through an innovative earthworm-based composting system that produces organic fertiliser for local farmers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The initiative uses a six-compartment unit known as the <strong>Jati Earthworm Breeding Composter<\/strong> which converts organic waste into nutrient-rich manure for crops such as vegetables and maize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Ratidzo Taruhla, a member of the Sacrifice Group said the project is helping residents cut down on waste, improve&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602060099.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A community group in Mabvuku-Tafara, eastern Harare is transforming household waste into income through an innovative earthworm-based composting system that produces organic fertiliser for local farmers. The initiative uses a six-compartment unit known as the Jati Earthworm Breeding Composter which converts organic waste into nutrient-rich manure for crops such as vegetables and maize. Ratidzo Taruhla, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,5192,11463,47080,257,254,7907,11569,4686,421],"class_list":["post-223197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-group","tag-livelihoods","tag-mabvukutafara","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turns","tag-waste","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}