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Councillors demand action as darkness sparks mugging deaths
HARARE councillors have called on the City of Harare to allow district offices to directly use funds collected from ratepayers for ward-specific services, particularly street lighting, following repor...Published: 16 Aug 2025 at 13:31hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Garwe flags mismanagement in local authorities
Local Government and Public Works Minister Daniel Garwe has raised serious concerns over mismanagement in Zimbabwe's local authorities, highlighting the widespread issue of key positions being filled ...Published: 06 Aug 2025 at 08:45hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bans pre-used clothing sales in CBDs
Government has ordered all urban councils to immediately ban night vending and the sale of second-hand clothing in Central Business Districts (CBDs) as part of a renewed push to restore order in city ...Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 17:04hrs | 780 | by Staff reporter
Harare councillors divided over retirement age
Harare City Council (HCC) is currently split over a government directive to extend the retirement age for workers to 70, with some councillors arguing that the policy amounts to abuse of elderly emplo...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:28hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Harare councillors push for Town Clerk's assistant to be fired
Harare city councillors have reportedly resolved to dismiss Matthew Marara, the executive assistant to the town clerk, amid allegations that he exposed irregularities during testimony before the ongoi...Published: 06 Feb 2025 at 15:52hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Harare City official faces potential dismissal after explosive testimony
Harare City Council's executive assistant to the town clerk, Engineer Matthew Marara, is reportedly on the verge of dismissal following his damning testimony before the Commission of Inquiry into the ...Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 08:07hrs | 886 | by Staff reporter
Harare official fired to facilitate recruitment
During a recent inquiry, serious allegations emerged against Harare councillors, claiming they fired the city's acting human capital director, Bozman Matengarufu, just ahead of the August 2023 electio...Published: 21 Jan 2025 at 13:50hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa throws councillors under the bus
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa yesterday condemned Harare councillors for abandoning their duties once elected, as he appeared before the commission of inquiry inv...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 07:06hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Sparks fly as councillors grab stands in leafy suburbs
Harare city councillors are embroiled in corruption allegations following reports that they allocated themselves residential stands in affluent suburbs, contrary to Government policy. The scandal has ...Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 10:24hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
'City of Harare now a crime scene'
The ongoing commission of inquiry into Harare City Council has uncovered alarming levels of corruption, with councillors and senior officials allegedly turning the city into a "crime scene."Th...Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 08:10hrs | 3700 | by Staff reporter
8 Harare councillors in trouble over abuse of office
The trial of eight Harare councillors accused of corruptly allocating 24 industrial stands to themselves resumed on Thursday, with the State presenting testimony from the council's acting town clerk, ...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 15:41hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Harare councillors distanced themselves from vehicle scandal
Harare City Council (HCC) councillors have distanced themselves from the purchase of luxury vehicles for city managers, amounting to over US$500,000. The decision has sparked controversy amidst widesp...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Harare councillors fight for expensive stands
Harare councillors are advocating for the reassignment of housing director Funny Machipisa after he reportedly resisted their demands to allocate housing stands outside their wards in upscale suburbs ...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:34hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Harare councillors attend meetings drunk
Harare mayor Jacob Mafume has accused fellow councillors of attending meetings under the influence of alcohol and drugs causing chaos and senseless disputes.Mafume presided over an explosive full coun...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 13:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu flexes his muscles again, recalls Harare's Chitengu
The City of Harare will have its fourth mayor in four months after local government minister Winston Chitando confirmed the recall of Lovejoy Chitengu as councillor for Ward 36.The recall inst...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 16:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare councillors blow US$24,000 in Nyanga despite cholera surge
At a time when cholera is ravaging the capital city, Harare City Council officials have chosen to attend a workshop in Nyanga where they are said to be blowing an astonishing US$24 000 in hefty allowa...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 15:49hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chaos rocks swearing in of Harare councillors
THERE was chaos as newly elected Harare councillors yesterday took their oath of office.Unruly opposition CCC supporters who came to witness the ceremony wearing party regalia sang and threw y...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electoral Bill, bad news for CCC
A NUMBER of sitting opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors and MPs may be barred from contesting the upcoming elections if the Electoral Act Amendment Bill is signed into law....Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa reads riot act to Harare councillors in parking storm
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa on Friday ordered Harare councillors to urgently review parking penalty charges following a public outcry, ZimLive reported.Chamisa st...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti chides July Moyo
PROMINENT lawyer, Tendai Biti, has shot salvos at Minister of local government, July Moyo, saying he is walking on slippery ground after the latter's lawyers applied for a postponement of a matter Har...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo was left naked, says Biti
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim vice-president and lawyer Tendai Biti yesterday hailed a High Court decision which clipped Local Government minister July Moyo's wings over local...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pays Pomona ‘investor' - even after US$320m contract cancelled
The government is paying millions of dollars to a company corruptly awarded a €304 million (about US$320 million) contract to turn Harare's waste into energy – even after the local authority cance...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare councillors waste thousands on trips outside capital
HARARE residents have accused City of Harare councillors of wasting taxpayers' money and fattening their pockets at the expense of essential service delivery to the general populace grappling shoddy, ...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mayor, councillors fume over US$20 monthly allowance
HARARE councillors are seething with anger, describing Local Government minister July Moyo (pictured) as inconsiderate and heartless in failing to review the paltry monthly allowances given to city fa...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Puppets will never rule Zimbabwe'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said time has come to vote out corrupt opposition councillors whose parties have not only run down local authorities but are puppets of Western countries that want to rem...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:37hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hits back
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused Harare's opposition councillors of being corrupt, at a time his own minister, July Moyo, is being investigated for allegedly forcing council into shadowy deals...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 19:40hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo in $3.5 million scandal
Local government minister July Moyo forced the Victoria Falls municipality to scrap a tender for the supply of water pumps in favour of his handpicked supplier, it was reported on Friday.Moyo'...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:15hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
60 Harare councillors, officials at ZITF
HARARE councillors belonging to Douglas Mwonzora's MDC-T are part of a 60-member elite team from Town House who are going to blow US$136 000 at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF).Thi...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's Harare Councillors blocked from 'looting' US$136,465
Opposition aligned journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has reported that the newly elected Harare CCC Councillors in Harare have blocked a 1 February resolution by the Information and Publicity Committee aut...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 17:17hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Harare Councilors defy July Moyo...elect new Mayor
Online publication ZimLive has reported that Harare councillors aligned to the newly formed CCC have voted Councilor Enock Mupamaonde as acting mayor, ousting MDC-T's Stewart Mutizwa and defying direc...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 12:49hrs | 12 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's councillors take oath of office
TWENTY-THREE new Harare councillors took oath of office yesterday, with former mayor Herbert Gomba set to be sworn-in today.After the swearing in ceremony, Citizens Coalition for Change's Denf...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC: Old wine in old wineskins
On 24 January, former MDC Alliance faction leader, Nelson Chamisa announced the formation of a new opposition political party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). During the announcement,...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chaos at Harare House
HARARE City Council (HCC) is reportedly on autopilot after a special council meeting called on Monday to elect an acting mayor failed to constitute a quorum.The situation is said to be dire to...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Who will guard the guards?
EVER wondered "who will guard the guards themselves?" This age-old political question, which raises concern over the conduct of those who are charged with enforcing rules on others, is interrogated in...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 12 | by CHRA
Mafume reinstated
Acting Local Government minister Jenfan Muswere has reinstated three Harare councillors, namely Mayor Jacob Mafume, Luckson Mukunguma and Anthony Shingadeya, after suspending them on allegations of fa...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 11:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The year Chamisa was exposed
If there were still any pockets of MDC Alliance supporters who were convinced that Nelson Chamisa was the most suitable replacement for the late Morgan Tsvangirai, the events of the year 2020 must hav...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga and Shongedzai Mugwagwa
Harare mayor, councillors suspended
Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume, his deputy Luckson Mukunguma and four other councillors have been suspended by Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo pending the outcome of their criminal tri...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council bleeding city of millions
MDC-Alliance Harare councillors and the city's management have been bleeding council of millions of dollars over the years in a property lease scam caused by the shambolic state of the council revenue...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Mayor arrested
POLICE Monday arrested Chitungwiza mayor Lovemore Maiko on criminal abuse of office charges.Information ministry spokesperson Nick Mangwana confirmed the arrested Monday evening."Chitu...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 20:36hrs | 12 | by Staff writer
21 Harare councillors arrested
SECURITY officers in plain clothes yesterday swooped on Harare Town House and rounded up 21 councillors and three journalists attending a full council meeting, in a dramatic search for the deputy Mayo...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora axe hangs over Masvingo
Interim MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora is said to be planning to extend his recall of MDC Alliance councillors to Masvingo where he faces immense resistance. Fear of recalls among th...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 07:09hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa won't protect you,' Mwonzora warns MPs, Cllrs
MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has warned Members of Parliament (MPs) and councilors who won their seats under the MDC Alliance in the 2018 harmonised elections that they should desist from ...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa scuffle cripples local authorities
THE turf war between MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and her MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa has left operations in the country's major cities and towns paralysed after she recalled a record 84 council...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Mwonzora is a 'sell-out'
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa has described his former colleague Douglas Mwonzora, as a sell-out who was fighting an unwinnable petty agenda.For close to six months, Mwonzora, MDC-T in...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe in fresh fight
THE battle to replace recalled Harare mayor Herbert Gomba has emerged between fierce rivals Thokozani Khupe and Nelson Chamisa.Gomba was recalled from council early this month by the Khupe-led...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 11:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare Mayor defends taking over Bulawayo
HARARE mayor Herbert Gomba has said there is nothing wrong with City Parking being given a parking management tender by Bulawayo City Council (BCC), as the two local authorities have a long working re...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance dinner dance row
A fundraising dinner dance called by MDC-Alliance next month has caused fissures within the embattled loose opposition coalition after some started questioning how funds raised from previous efforts h...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa led Municipalities accused of extravagance
CIVIC Society and Churches Joint Forum (CSCJF) activists drawn from Bulawayo and Gweru yesterday besieged Bulawayo City Council offices and the Holiday Inn Hotel - where Gweru city councillors are att...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Harare councillors demand iPads
Harare City councillors have given town clerk Hosiah Chisango until October 31 to provide them with iPads in a move set to raise the ire of residents receiving poor service delivery from the local aut...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Factional fights among Harare Councillors back dates to Kasukuwere era
Factional infighting among Harare City Councillors has been cited as one of the reasons three Councillors, Paula Macharangwanda, Wilton Janjasi and Urayayi Mangwiro were the only ones victimised by fo...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 10:07hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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