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Councillors acquitted in residential stands allocation case
Seven members of the Harare City Council's Finance and Development Committee accused of illegally allocating themselves residential stands have been acquitted by Harare regional magistrate Donald Ndir...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:36hrs | 84 | 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
Mnangagwa blames Zimbabwe councils for cholera outbreaks
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has indirectly attributed the sporadic cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe to opposition-run urban councils. He claimed that the towns and cities in Zimbabwe have deteriorated d...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt threatens to take over councils
The government has issued a warning to local authorities that fail to fulfill their mandates, threatening to reintroduce commissions to oversee their operations.Harare Provincial Affairs and D...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 06:40hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Shambolic accounts haunt city
HARARE City Council has been failing to properly account for its revenues over the past four years due to a manual accounting system prone to human error and manipulation.In 2019, the local au...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Shock as council allocates stands on tarred streets
THE corruption-riddled Harare City Council has torched yet another storm after facilitating and allocating several residential stands on tarred streets in Harare, plus converting recreation areas and ...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Residents, councils forge alliance
The Zimbabwe National Organisation of Associations and Residents Trusts (ZNOART), a residents' group representing all cities and towns in Zimbabwe, says it has made huge strides in getting ratepayers ...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Residents accuse govt over Harare mess
RESIDENTS yesterday accused the government of authoring the confusion currently devilling the Harare City Council (HICC) to push its own political agenda.Harare Residents Trust director Precio...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 19:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shocking rates in Harare 2021 budget
An average high-density suburban householder will be paying $1 736 a month from January for basic services, while a family in the modest Mabelreign middle-density suburb will be hit by monthly bills o...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 05:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt councils need cleansing
AS the umbrella organ playing the oversight role over the way Zimbabwean local councils discharge their mandate for service delivery, the Zimbabwe National Organisation of Associations of Residents Tr...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:02hrs | | by Shepherd Chikomba
Lifestyle audit for council officials
THE Government is set to conduct lifestyle audits for Harare City Council officials, amid indications that some of them might have amassed wealth through the sale of State land, Harare Provincial Deve...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
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