By Own Correspondent Harare City Council officials who are allegedly implicated in the over US$1 million land scam continue to defy a local government directive barring them from resuming work. The latest being its Housing Principal Officer Edgar Dzehonye, OpenCouncilHRE has established. Dzehonye is reported to have resumed work on the 24th of December last…
Zimbabwe as a Federal Republic — Devolution White Paper
By Correspondent This month Marondera Council revealed that it is going to be accepting payments of rates in US$. It follows Harare, Masvingo, and Norton Councils which have all taken aboard the same system. This is an indictment of the futility of using the local currency to run operations for the local authorities. Government has…
Correspondent Acting Information Minister Jenfan Muswere this month revealed that the country could receive vaccines later this month in a statement that drew the ire of many who accused government of lacking a concrete plan to acquire the Covid vaccines. This incoherence is unlike other countries such as South Africa which has already mooted plans…
By Correspondent As Covid continues ravaging the country, state media this week repeated the message about the impending arrival of vaccines. Noteworthy was the wording which simply stated that, “the country is set to take delivery of Covid-19 vaccine in the next few weeks”. Prior to that another state media article had vaguely postulated about…
By Correspondent Just like digitalisation, devolution is slowly dying a natural death, reduced to a state function nicety and empty aphorism for the state media and propagandists to latch onto and harp about. The political establishment in the country has remained unconvinced of its safety if they allow both a life of their own. All…
By Correspondent Chitungwiza Council is currently divided over the fate of some suspended top managers who are currently facing charges of corruption. This publication is reliably informed that some Councilors want them back at Head office against the directive by Provincial Development Coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Muguti. Muguti has ordered that those managers should not report…
By Correspondent At the height of the lockdown in 2020 the Harare City Council ordered closed almost all of its offices in various locations and left only Rowan Martin to operate, receiving payments from residents. Residents were encouraged to use plastic money and other electronic means of payments. Nothwistanding that, revenue collection plunged by a…
By Correspondent Zimbabwe has slowly found itself in the throes of the dreaded Covid second wave which on Monday claimed a staggering 60 lives, the highest mortality figure since the advent of the infection. The number for those infected has also continued rising leading to government introducing a 30 day lockdown. The capital Harare has…
