Kasukuwere guns for Bulawayo Mayor

Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has unleashed investigators to look into claims of impropriety in council in what is being seen as the build up towards the purging of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) dominated municipality.

The investigation has been spurred by claims of corruption by the Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BUPRA) in the allocation of residential stands.

BURA has called for the prosecution of councillors found guilty of parcelling out vast tracts of land to themselves.

Last month, BUPRA petitioned Kasukuwere; the Minister of State for Provincial Affairs in Bulawayo, Nomthandazo Eunice Moyo and the National Assembly to investigate the city fathers for land deals which it said were suspicious.

The city has 100 000 residents on the waiting list for housing stands.