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This article is about the village in
Masvingo,
Zimbabwe. For the Israeli emergency response team, see
ZAKA.
Zaka is a district in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe and is located 86km south-east from Masvingo in the Ndanga communal land. The village was established in 1923 and lies in a very low-lying area hence the Shona derived name kwo-ka-zaka which means to where it is going down.
[edit] Background
Zaka district is a typical small-holder farming area, with poor soils and fickle rainfall. Farmers grow mainly sorghum and cowpea, which tolerate drought better than most crops.
[edit] Health care
There is a high prevelance of HIV/AIDS in the district. An estimated 43 percent of the population has the disease. [1]
[edit] References
Coordinates: 20°21′S, 31°27′E
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