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Councillors worry over ambulance shortage

Councillors have expressed concern over a severe shortage of ambulances in the city, warning that the crisis is undermining emergency health delivery services.According to minutes of a recent full council meeting, Deputy Mayor Edwin Ndlovu…

Published: 09 Sep 2025 at 08:37hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter

Govt increases councillors' allowances

The Government has announced a new comprehensive package of allowances and benefits for local authority officials, offering them housing stands, motorbike loans, and other perks such as free parking and burial space - but firmly ruling out…

Published: 17 Jul 2025 at 20:51hrs | | by Staff reporter

Tensions erupts over Harare Master Plan

Tensions erupted during a City of Harare Works and Town Planning Committee meeting today, as councillors fiercely resisted attempts by city management and consultants to push through a massive 900-page draft master plan without adequate sc…

Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 19:09hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter

Blitz-krieg them all! A call for action against illegal urban operations

THE heading above no doubt encapsulates the concerns of law-abiding citizens, urging those in authority to swiftly root out the undesirable elements polluting our society - without further ado or unnecessary dithering.The miscreants, it se…

Published: 05 Jul 2025 at 10:27hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu

Councilors in near fist fight over international trips

 A tense Masvingo City Council meeting held on June 27 nearly turned violent as councilors clashed over a proposed international trip to Zambia and the licensing of a new liquor operator in Hillside Extension.Tempers flared during the…

Published: 05 Jul 2025 at 10:26hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter

Councillors get allowances for trips, fail to travel

Two Chinhoyi councillors were allocated allowances to attend business conferences-one in Saudi Arabia and another in Gweru - yet neither made the trips, raising concerns over the use of public funds.Ward Four Councillor Ignatius Zvigadza w…

Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:27hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter

CCC councillors demand US$4,000 vehicle loan

BULAWAYO City Councillors have controversially resolved to receive US$4,000 each in personal loan facilities for the purchase of vehicles - a move that defies a Government directive and comes at a time when the local authority is grappling…

Published: 06 Apr 2025 at 11:28hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter

Mafume reshuffle committees

Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume is reportedly planning significant changes to the city council's leadership, aiming to install loyalists in key positions to avoid opposition to his decisions. Ahead of a full council meeting, Mafume instruct…

Published: 29 Aug 2024 at 16:11hrs | 476 | 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 workshops and seminars during the first seven …

Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 10:01hrs | 405 | 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 of the capital. The council's human res…

Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:34hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Residents raise concern over councillors' stands

In the face of worsening basic service delivery in many local authorities, including Bulawayo, ratepayers have raised concerns about certain privileges granted to serving councillors. Specifically, they are calling for the revocation of li…

Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:51hrs | 4 | 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 allowances funded by ratepayers.Dozens of peo…

Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 15:49hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

High expectations for new Bulawayo councillors

Bulawayo residents have called on incoming Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors to restore the city's glory by tackling collapsing service delivery and recurrent water shortages among other ills.Bulawayo suffers urban decay, col…

Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 12:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

MDC councillors plot to rip off Gweru

ACTING Gweru district development coordinator Tarisai Mudadigwa has written a letter to acting town clerk Livingston Churu, ordering him to stop plans by councillors from the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-Alliance to rip off the council through…

Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:23hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

5 councillors in court over stands corruption

FIVE Harare City councillors, all members of the Finance and Development Committee, have been charged with illegally allocating commercial and industrial stands to themselves, at least seven other councillors, batches of senior council off…

Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mutsvangwa urges Zanu-PF members to remain united in Mutare

Zanu-PF Women's League's Secretary for Administration Monica Mutsvangwa has urged party members to remain united, while defending the country's sovereignty and winning the forthcoming elections in Mutare and Manicaland.Speaking during a Wo…

Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 06:42hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter

Chamisa retains current councillors

OPPOSITION leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has sparked public outcry after his party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), nominated persons with corruption charges hanging over their heads to be candidates in Harare.Apart from facing corrupt…

Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo councillors slam 'shoddy' government road repairs in city

Bulawayo councillors on Wednesday slammed a government-led road rehabilitation exercise, questioning the workmanship which they said was shoddy.Speaking during a full council meeting, the councillors also claimed Bulawayo companies and wor…

Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 11:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

New rules to deal with drunk councillors

Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister July Moyo has called on local authorities to formulate standing rules to rein in councillors who attend meetings while drunk. Minister Moyo's call follows reports that some counc…

Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Take action please, Minister!

Bulawayo Provincial Affairs Minister, mama Angeline Masuku you have identified the problem that the councillors are stifling investment in Bulawayo. Have you found their reasons for stifling projects in Bulawayo? What is their motive? What…

Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 11:31hrs | 1 | by S Sibanda

A case for independent MPs and councillors

I am not at all surprised at the furore against Fadzayi Mahere bid as an independent MP candidate for 2018. Paradigm shifts are caused by individuals who dare to act and we need more of that.The typical response is that of resistance to ch…

Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 21:44hrs | | by Vince Musewe

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