This article is about the village in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. For the Israeli emergency response team, see ZAKA. For the place in Burkina Faso, see Zaka, Burkina Faso.
Zaka is a district in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe and is located 86 km southeast 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.
Background
Zaka district is a typical smallholder farming area, with poor soils and fickle rainfall. Farmers grow mainly sorghum and cowpea, which tolerate drought better than most crops.
Health care
There is a high prevelance of HIV/AIDS in the district. An estimated 43 percent of the population has the disease. [1]
