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Top official goes AWOL from Town House
Harare City Council (HCC) top official Mathew Marara has reportedly gone absent without official leave (AWOL), with plans in motion to remove him from the municipality's payroll. Marara, who was accus...Published: 12 Nov 2024 at 11:01hrs | 799 | by Staff reporter
Harare stands scandal: More details emerge
More details have emerged regarding the Harare City Council housing stands scandal, revealing that the Registrar of Deeds office has been unable to locate title deeds for the allocated stands. This re...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:45hrs | 2508 | by Staff reporter
Nepotism, corruption mar Harare land allocations
A commission of inquiry into the City of Harare's financial management has revealed widespread corruption, nepotism, and favouritism in the municipality's land allocation processes. The commission, le...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:26hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Harare council can't account for US$100m
The City of Harare is in turmoil as investigations reveal a failure to account for over US$100 million, raising alarming questions about potential misappropriation and grand theft of council resources...Published: 06 Oct 2024 at 10:13hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
'Situation at Harare Town House has reached another level'
Harare city councillors have expressed frustration over the lack of an effective communication system at Town House, which they believe has led to sensitive information being disseminated via social m...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 08:55hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
Drama erupts at Harare Council Meeting as suspended town clerk shows up
Tension filled the air at the Harare Town House on Tuesday as embattled town clerk Hosiah Chisango attended an ordinary council sitting, despite being under suspension and barred from entering the wor...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:58hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
Mafume suspends town clerk Chisango
Harare mayor Jacob Mafume has suspended Town Clerk Hosiah Chisango on allegations of misconduct, including the unauthorized awarding of a street lighting tender to a blacklisted company and unlawfully...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 14:30hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
2 'town clerks' running Harare
Harare City Council (HCC) is embroiled in a new scandal following revelations that it has been operating with two town clerks for nearly a year. This shocking development was reported by NewsDay, rais...Published: 30 Sep 2024 at 07:45hrs | 822 | by Staff reporter
Mafume, Chisango in nasty bust-up
Tensions reached a breaking point at Harare's Town House on Monday as Mayor Councillor Jacob Mafume confronted town clerk Engineer Hosiah Chisango in a shocking altercation that left council employees...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:20hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Mafume accused of illegally pocketing prime land at Harare's expense
The Harare City Council is facing mounting scrutiny as it emerges that Mayor Jacob Mafume and several senior officials received stands under questionable circumstances, costing the municipality much-n...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 08:28hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
US$816 000 for chemicals vanishes as Harare runs dry
Harare City Council could have lost US$816,000 in public funds due to alleged misconduct by water treatment chemicals supplier, Nanotech Water Solutions. The company reportedly acquitted only US$252,0...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 07:28hrs | 3726 | by Staff reporter
CCC councilors blew US$11m on workshops in 7 months
Incarcerated Harare town clerk, Engineer Hosiah Chisango, has called for external regulation of council operations after revealing that city councillors squandered over US$11 million on weekly wo...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 10:01hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
Harare Commission uncovers massive land looting
The Commission of Inquiry into Harare City Council operations has revealed that ahead of last year’s harmonised elections, councillors from the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) engaged in a large...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 07:50hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Zacc pounces on Harare City Council town clerk's wives
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has seized luxury vehicles owned by the wives of Hosiah Chisango, the Harare town clerk currently in remand prison on corruption charges. The ve...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 07:56hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
Phakamile Mabhena Moyo appointed acting Harare Town Clerk
Engineer Phakamile Mabhena Moyo, the Harare City Council's director of water, has been appointed acting Town Clerk following the arrest of Engineer Hosiah Chisango.Chisango was arrested last n...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 06:30hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Harare Town Clerk arrested over US$9,2 million tender scandal
Harare City Council (HCC), town clerk engineer Hosiah Chisango, has been arrested charged with unprocedural awarding of a US$9,2 million tender without following due process.In a Wednesday sta...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 07:51hrs | 1136 | by Staff reporter
Harare commission granted a warrant for search and seizure
The commission of inquiry appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to investigate the governance of Harare City Council since 2017 will commence public hearings today following the issuance of a warr...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 07:06hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Commission of inquiry rattles Harare
The commission of inquiry appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to investigate the Harare City Council has uncovered alleged irregularities and mismanagement within the council. Top offici...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 08:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
City Council attaches 50 houses
The Harare City Council (HCC) has seized over 50 properties from residents and businesses that have defaulted on paying their monthly rates. More than 4,000 ratepayers with overdue balances exceeding ...Published: 02 Jun 2024 at 09:00hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Harare buildings are death traps'
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume yesterday said several buildings in the capital were death traps and facing closure because of dilapidation.Mafume made the remarks after visiting a building that col...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 10:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare gives ultimatum to CBD property owners
THE City of Harare has warned owners of dilapidated buildings in the central business district (CBD) to refurbish their properties.The city also advised the proprietors to make written present...Published: 05 Apr 2024 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare Council bid to splash US$2m on 500 desktops exposed
Some Harare City Council officials have been caught in a procurement scam in which they are fighting for the purchase of 500 desktop computers at US$4 000 each, above the market price of about US$700....Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare slashes plan approval fees
The Harare City Council has decided to reduce its building plans and inspection fees in response to public complaints about the high United States dollar-denominated charges that were introduced in Ju...Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 05:45hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Council gives businesses bins ultimatum
Businesses in Harare are under a 14-day ultimatum to place bins outside their premises to enhance cleanliness within the city. Hosiah Chisango, the Town Clerk, warned that non-compliant businesses wou...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 12:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare faces acute water shortage
The Harare City Council has issued an urgent notice warning residents of the capital city about an impending water shortage due to a natural phenomenon known as a "lake turn" occurring at Lake Chivero...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
We salute Diva Mafunga funeral support by ZIMURA - Maxwell Teedzai
MUTARE - Veteran Mutare Gospel musician, Pastor Maxwell Teedzai has hailed ZIMURA - Zimbabwe Music Rights Association for standing hand - in - glove with the Mafunga family after the sad passing on of...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 20:38hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Harare City Council backs down on US dollar billing
The Harare City Council (HCC) has reversed its controversial decision to bill rate payers in US dollars only following a treasury order for the local authority to abandon the action.Town House...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare town clerk acquitted of criminal abuse of office charge
HARARE town clerk Hosiah Abraham Chisango, who was facing charges of perjury and criminal abuse of office on allegations that he favoured Pokugara Properties by writing a letter authorizing the demoli...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court still withholding transcript in Ken Sharpe witness case
The Harare Magistrate Court still has not released the transcript of its ruling on 18 November denying bail to the former City of Harare chief building in...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:02hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Dr Chipanga in the house
HE is now called Doctor Chipanga.The maverick musician is on cloud nine after he was recently conferred with an honourary PHD in Philosophy from Trinity International Bible University....Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 17:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hosiah Chipanga wants to be Mnangagwa's advisor
For many Zimbabweans, Hosiah Chipanga is a musician, whose long career has been overshadowed by his contemporaries like Thomas Mapfumo and Oliver Mtukudzi, among others.Here and there, he has ...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hosiah Chipanga grace Mnangagwa's rally
MANICALAND based sungura musician Hosiah Chipanga – well known for attacking Zanu-PF – on Saturday graced the ruling party's rally in Mutasa South Constituency alongside Baba Harare who has perfor...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
July Moyo backs under fire tycoon
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo has sprung to the defence of businessman Ken Sharpe, who is accused of manipulating the country's justice system to hang on to vast tracts of land he obtained in co...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade fizzles out deplorably
HIGH-PROFILE corruption cases from as far back as 2017 are yet to be finalised, almost five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to decisively tackle graft.The development also de...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZACC arrests 26 Harare, Chitungwiza officials
TWENTY-SIX councillors and officials from Harare and Chitungwiza have been arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) working with other law enforcement agencies in the fight against c...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hosiah Chipanga claims he is more popular than most politicians
OUTSPOKEN veteran musician Hosiah Chipanga has boasted that he is more likeable compared to many local politicians and is confident that his fans will support his political ambitions.This foll...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 17:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Franco joins Sulumani Chimbetu
Struggling Sungura musician Franco "Slomo" Dhaka yesterday joined Sulumani Chimbetu on stage at Leisure Centre in Chitungwiza.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yCI7uV9fwpI...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:21hrs | 23 | by Simbarashe Sithole
16 political parties in by-elections
At least 16 political parties are contesting in the 28 by-elections to fill vacancies in the National Assembly to be held 26 March and replace those who have died, been recalled or been redeployed. ...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti Parly bounce-back latest
THE High Court yesterday cancelled Monday's ruling stopping by-elections in six constituencies that allowed People's Democratic Party (PDP) members to bounce back to Parliament without being subjected...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US Embassy sweats to save Chamisa's sinking ship
The United States Embassy in Harare has reactivated its propaganda machinery ahead of the forthcoming by-elections slated for March 26.After a notable lull in propaganda tweets since the depar...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:40hrs | 7 | by Hosia Mviringi
'Rhodesian leaders were more accommodating than Zanu-PF'
OUTSPOKEN veteran musician Hosiah Chipanga made a scathing attack against the country's leadership saying Rhodesian leaders were more accommodating as compared to post independence leaders.Chi...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:27hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 procurement scandal revealed
ZIMBABWE was prejudiced of millions of united States dollars as a result of irregular procurement transactions around Covid-19 materials, with sharp scrutiny centred on tenders awarded to Young Health...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 13:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council boss fights back
SUSPENDED City of Harare director of works Zvenyika Chawatama, who is facing fraud and abuse of office charges in court, has filed a complaint with ZRP Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga against the ...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Land developer fights Mnangagwa's graft buster
PROPERTY developers, Pokugara have accused officials from the National Prosecuting Authority and Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) housed in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office of interfering with...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council boss shows up, arrest warrant cancelled
A WARRANT of arrest recently issued against Harare City Council director of works Zvenyika Chawatama was cancelled yesterday after he showed up in court.Chawatama, who was alleged to have been...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Arrest of council bigwigs blurs city memory
ACTING Harare town clerk Mabhena Moyo has said the arrest of several council executives will affect its operations and quality of projects, as well as blur the city's good memories of the past....Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fugitive council boss 'flees' to SA
FUGITIVE Harare City Council director of works Isaac Zvenyika Chawatama is suspected to have skipped the border into South Africa.Chawatama is on the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) wanted...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest for Harare director of works
HARARE magistrate Stanford Mambanje has issued a warrant of arrest for council's director of works Isaiah Zvenyika Chawatama after he absconded court yesterday.Chawatama was supposed to appear...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Disruptive chaos rages at Harare city
CHAOS continues to reign at Harare City Council, where top officials who are reportedly wanted by law enforcement agencies are back at work, while others with pending court cases are resisting to vaca...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sued over 'illegal' land deal
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been cornered to explain a secret land deal with controversial millionaire businessman Ken Sharpe after a Harare MP and two others went to court to get it reversed....Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 20:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
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