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Plumtree rolls out prepaid water meters
The Plumtree Town Council has announced plans to introduce prepaid water meters, a move that has sparked outrage among residents who argue the system threatens their right to water and risks deepening...Published: 7 hrs ago | 33 | by Staff reporter
MP raises alarm over Kwekwe Council's 'exorbitant' rates
Member of Parliament for Mbizo Constituency, Corban Madzivanyika, has raised alarm over what he described as exorbitant municipal rates being charged by Kwekwe City Council, saying the current billing...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 11:36hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
SA asks for water from Zimbabwe
South African border officials at Beitbridge have requested water supplies from the Beitbridge Municipality after their pumps were washed away by the swollen Limpopo River three times.Beitbrid...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:20hrs | 969 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's disqualified ally takes case to Supreme Court
The disqualified independent candidate for the Victoria Falls City Council Ward 1 by-election, Ephias Mambume, has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court challenging the High Court's decision to bar him...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 15:10hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Court disqualifies Chamisa's candidate over unpaid council bills
The High Court has disqualified independent candidate Mr. Ephias Mambume from contesting the November 30 Victoria Falls City Council Ward 1 by-election, following an electoral petition filed by Zanu-P...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:23hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Legal challenge in Victoria Falls by-election over payment of rates
Victoria Falls Ward 1 candidate for Zanu-PF, Tonderai Mutasa, has filed a legal challenge with the Electoral Court, disputing the nomination of independent candidate Ephias Mambume, who is widely seen...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:11hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Harare, Chitungwiza meet over water crisis
The Harare City Council (HCC) is set to hold a crucial meeting with Chitungwiza Municipality this week to address the ongoing water crisis in the dormitory town, which worsened following the decommiss...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:17hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Bubi villagers petition Masuka, Zinwa over bills
Villagers in Bubi, Matabeleland North, have raised concerns with Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Anxious Masuka and the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zin...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 09:55hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu requests water payment holiday
Ingwebu Breweries, owned by the Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Unit, requested a one-time water payment holiday from the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) due to the 2023/24 El Niño-induced drought. This dr...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Redcliff council defrauding residents!
It never rains but pours for residents of the small town of Redcliff.We face the dilemma of the proverbial smoking pipe – burnt on one en...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 07:13hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Open letter to Fadzai Mahere, Ian Makone and Town Clerk
I hope this open letter finds you in good health and high spirits. I am writing to express my deep concern and dissatisfaction regarding the unfair and exorbitant water charges that residents of Harar...Published: 23 Sep 2023 at 11:44hrs | 2 | by Tsungirai Gore
Tendai Savanhu's widow arrested
The second wife of the late deputy Minister for Lands and Resettlement Tendai Savanhu was yesterday arrested on charges of theft of trust property after she allegedly sold her late husband's Range Rov...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter
'Command agriculture failing due to unpaid loans'
A REPORT by the Public Accounts Committee (Pac) has revealed that the command agriculture programme (CAP) was not properly administered as loans issued to some beneficiaries were yet to be re-paid....Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Savanhu's widow in property ownership wrangle
THE late former deputy minister for Lands and Resettlement Tendai Savanhu's widow, Tendai who recently got her property attached for failing to settle rental arrears is now facing eviction from the up...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo 150% rates approved
BULAWAYO residents will start paying 150 percent more in rates for domestic users following Government's approval of the city's $23,8 billion 2022 budget.The new charges are effective from thi...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Govt rejects Bulawayo's 2022 budget
BULAWAYO residents will heave a sigh of relief, at least for this month, as they will be billed using last year's rates after the Government rejected the local authority's proposed 2022 budget, Sunday...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinwa, BCC fight for control of treatment plants
THE on-going fight for control of water treatment plants between the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) and Beitbridge municipality has been blamed for perennial water woes at the border ...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:08hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Record wheat harvest for Zimbabwe
More than 188 000 tonnes of wheat have been delivered to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), which represents a significant increase from 149 874 tonnes that had been delivered during the same period las...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:17hrs | 39 | by Staff Reporter
Residents resist BCC tariff hikes
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday bowed to pressure from residents and slightly slashed its proposed 2022 budget by $900 million, with the tariff regime going down by 16 percent.During las...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Proposed BCC budget for 2022: $12 000 a month for rates in Bulawayo
THE proposed 2022 budget by the City of Bulawayo will see residents in some places paying as much as $12 000 for rates only, before factoring in water charges as the local authority targets to introdu...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls housing backlog hits15 000
VICTORIA Falls City's housing backlog currently stands at over 15 000 at a time when the local authority is struggling to secure land for housing development.Housing director Brian Nyamande ye...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt gazettes Harare's new burial, water charges
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo yesterday gazetted new fees for burial space in Harare while also announcing a massive hike in water charges and refuse collection fees for the capital.The ...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare roads funds need audit
The heavy rains have highlighted the lack of maintenance and lack of required rebuilding on many Harare roads, with the city council getting its fair share of Zinara funds and having access to parking...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare proposes 300% increase in service charges
Harare City Council yesterday presented a ZW$483 million supplementary budget which will see a 300% rise in charges for water, refuse collection, clamping fees, tow-away and burial space, among other ...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wheel clamping fees up 1 000%
Harare City Council has increased charges for clamping and towing of vehicles by over 1 000 percent in its $829,86 million supplementary budget that was approved yesterday. The budget that slightly in...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zupco sued over $30 000 debt
KWEKWE City Council (KCC) has taken the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) to court over a debt of more than RTG$30 000 in unpaid water charges and rates. The council through its ...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe rolls out prepaid water meters
Kwekwe City Council has started rolling out prepaid water meters throughout the city, effectively becoming the first local authority in the Midlands Province to introduce the system. Kwekwe ci...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bucket of water fill-up after 8 hours in Harare
Community Water Alliance staff visited households with pre-paid water meters in Kambuzuma Section 1. The purpose of the visit was to assess the impact of pre-paid water meters installed in 2017 by Cit...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 14:30hrs | | by Hildaberta Rwambiwa
Gweru residents fume over exorbitant rates
GWERU residents have slammed council for continuing to rely on a flawed billing system which has seen ratepayers being charged exorbitant rates, a research by Gweru Residents Forum (GRF) reveals....Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Arthur Mutambara, Chihuri in court over water arrears
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has taken former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri and ex-Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara to court over unpaid water bills totalling $6...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri's woes mount
Former Police Commissioner-General Dr Augustine Chihuri has been taken to the High Court for failing to pay a water bill amounting to $44 984. Dr Chihuri consumed water at his Inyika Farm in S...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court clips Muchinguri's powers
THE High Court has outlawed the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Raw Water Tariffs) Regulations, Statutory Instrument (SI) 48 of 2016, which gave Environment, Water and Climate minister Oppah Muchin...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 key economic policy matters that will trigger economic stability & growth in Zimbabwe
Over and above the need for political stability and sound macroeconomic management policies, business confidence is the single biggest determinant of economic growth in any country. Economics is a soc...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 11:45hrs | | by Martin Majaji
High Court slashes water tariffs
THE High Court has quashed the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Raw Water Tariffs) Statutory Instrument 48 of 2016, which hiked raw water charges for commercial agriculture from $9,45 to $12 per meg...Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
'Zanu-PF manifesto populist scam'
POLITICAL analysts and residents' associations yesterday described the recently-launched Zanu-PF 2018 election manifesto as jumbled up, unrealistic and contemptuous of the electorate, as most of the p...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Women break into house, stay for 6 months
TWO daring Gweru women broke into a locked house and lived in it for six months without the knowledge of the owner who was away in South Africa.The gutsy Shantell Ncube (23) and Precious Masho...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 05:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Water tariff hike proposal causes stir
Harare City Council's proposal to hike water charges for domestic use has provoked a strong reaction from residents already struggling to settle their bills. In its $319,5 million budget for 2...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Celebration Church disputes water bill
The Celebration Church has disputed the water bill presented by the Harare City Council that ranks it among Harare's biggest church debtors arguing that the city was continuing to bill it for water wh...Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman faints in court
BUSINESS came to a standstill at the Victoria Falls Magistrates' Courts on Tuesday when a woman who was being accused by her landlady of failing to pay $60 for water, collapsed in the courtroom....Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 06:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The fall of fixed water charges in Mabvuku
The City of Harare will with effect from 30 April 2017, cancel odious debt on fixed water charges accruing on rights-holders' water accounts for a period spanning July 2013 up to February 2017. The to...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 14:38hrs | | by Goodlife Mudzingwa
Police stop demo against Zinwa
Police in the border town of Beitbridge yesterday stopped residents from demonstrating against the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (zinwa), whom they accuse of triggering month-long water shorta...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZINWA has done it but few remains to be done
Following the much published article on water charges by ZINWA in the town of Mvurwi in mash central, some of the consumers have welcomed the move by ZINWA to reduce water charges based on estim...Published: 17 Feb 2017 at 10:08hrs | 1 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
Masvingo land barons affected Victoria Ranch residents
The Ministry of Local Government Public Works and National Housing must take remedial action before a land developer called Remainder of Victoria Ranch fleeces more money from its clients (desperate h...Published: 07 Jan 2017 at 10:33hrs | 4 | by Victoria Ranch resident
Town council accused of violating residents' human rights
Mvurwi Residents Association has denounced the town council and ZINWA for violating their human rights, at a constitutional awareness meeting on Socio Economic Rights at Salvation Army church in Mvurw...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 20:53hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Residents fume over water charges
Unit L residents in Seke, Chitungwiza are a bitter community as they complained that the council was charging them for water yet they are not getting any running precious liquiid from the councl....Published: 22 Sep 2016 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
PPC seeks tenants eviction in Colleen Bawn
Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) has taken 22 of its tenants in Colleen Bawn to the Civil Court seeking their eviction after they failed to settle rentals. The 22 are part of people who are not ...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 06:45hrs | | by Richard Muponde
Water quality in Harare an issue- Harare Resident Trust
Harare Residents Trust has said water quality in the capital city has become an issue of concern with the residents."Residents have raised concern over the water disconnections for outstanding...Published: 24 Mar 2016 at 05:13hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Amakhosi in court for $86,000 BCC debt
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has dragged Amakhosi Theatre Productions to court over a debt of more than $86,000 in unpaid refuse collection and water charges. The BCC last week filed summon...Published: 01 Mar 2016 at 05:28hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Please stop disconnecting water in all cities of Zimbabwe! Water is a human right. Period!
Please dear citizens, pass this message to all city councils in Zimbabwe. A country that has 90% unemployment, where do they get money to pay water rates from? Has it ever dawned on the whole Mayor of...Published: 17 Nov 2015 at 13:28hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
BCC sues Johane we Masowe church over $64,000 debt
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has dragged Church ya Johane we Masowe to court over unpaid water charges and rates amounting to over $64, 000. The BCC last week filed an application at the Bu...Published: 22 Sep 2015 at 06:25hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
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