By Correspondent Harare City Council may fail to access its allocation from the Zimbabwe National Roads Adminstration (ZINARA) for 2021 following the garnishing of its accounts by Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) in 2020. ZIMRA garnished a Harare City Council account and collected ZWL$46 million which ZINARA had disbursed for Harare to carry out road works.…
By Correspondent Harare Council in December spent nearly US$17 000 for a five day stay at Elephant Hills Hotel for its officials attending a program aimed at assiting initiatives for the First Lady Mrs Mnangagwa. A confidential report from December 2020 considered during the last Full Council meeting in March sought for retrospective granting of…
By Correspondent Some Harare residents are now resorting to defecating in plastic bags to avoid using toilets due to incessant sewage bursts. Harare Council has not been able to deal with the sewage bursts as its workers have been undertaking job action pushing for increased salaries. A report by residents organisation Combined Harare Residents Association(CHRA)…
By Correspondent Kingsdale residents in Norton have taken land developer Maparahwe Properties, owned by ZANU PF legislator Cuthbert Mpame, to the Constitutional in their on-going land battle. The residents, who are arguing that their stands are built on state land, are being represented by Professor Lovemore Madhuku. The case was filed on 6 April and…
By Tinashe Chigwata The discussion has shown that there is no coherent approach to assigning powers and responsibilities to provincial and metropolitan councils whose composition is also the subject of debate. Thus, the starting point of implementing the provincial structure should be to clarify or identify the place and role of provincial and metropolitan councils…
By Correspondent The Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) has urged Harare residents and motorists to resist the introduction of a new roads levy by the City Council. Council revealed recently that it plans to introduce a road levy for residents as the local authority seeks to raise funds to rehabilitate its dilapidated road network. This…
By Tinashe Chigwata The Constitution also requires devolution to the local level. However, the current debates on devolution in Zimbabwe are significantly and unfairly related to the provincial and metropolitan councils as opposed to local authorities. It is as if local authorities are already exercising exclusive devolved powers or that they do not require such…
Munesu Nyakudya The incarceration of Makomborero Haruzivishe is not the epitomisation of President Mnangagwa’s transformation from the false hero of 2017 into the abject African hardman of sterile politics drip-fed life by old tales and subsisting on coercion and fear-mongering. The August 1 killings in the streets of Harare revealed the enormity of the wrong…
By Correspondent ZANU PF has intensified its 2023 campaign programme by targeting Rural District Council (RDC) personnel for indoctrination trainings under its Chitepo School of Ideology. The party programme, under which recently elected DCC officials will also be trained, has also targeted Chiefs for the same training. According to documents seen by this publication the…
By Correspondent Damafalls residents in Norton have heaved a sigh of relief following the arrest of their land developer, Luckson Rice, who had threatened to evict them after swindling them of money. The more than 100 familiess were told to vacate their stands by the developer following disagreements over money. Facing eviction the residents engaged…