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Harare's 'cursed' office
The office of the Town Clerk at Harare City Council has long been mired in controversy, corruption scandals, and political infighting, leading to widespread mismanagement and plunder of council resour...Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 11:19hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
Former Harare Mayor, Ex-Town Clerk arrested on corruption charges
Former Harare Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni and ex-acting town clerk Josephine Ncube have been arrested on charges of criminal abuse of duty, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) confirmed last n...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:20hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
'Uneducated' politicians to be locked out of Zimbabwe councils
GOVERNMENT is finalising a new law to bar politicians without tertiary education qualifications from running for local authority seats in a development meant to restore competency and improve service ...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Council director 'fakes' age to defer retirement
FORMER Harare City Council (HCC) workers want authorities to investigate suspended council's human capital director Cainos Chingombe on allegations of misrepresenting his date of birth to postpone his...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Harare Mayor Manyenyeni Hospitalised With Covid-19
FORMER Former Harare Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni and his wife Francesica have been admitted at a private hospital in the capital city after contracting Covid-19 at a relative's funeral in Murewa....Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 21:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council land scam takes new twist
HARARE City Council's head of planning Priscilla Charumbira has denied allegations that she unprocedurally changed land use plans for several open spaces in the capital, accusing fellow employees, alr...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Khupe recalls
Harare and Bulawayo residents say they have been caught in the crossfire in the ongoing opposition power struggles after the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T engineered the mass recalling of councillors in M...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare rot, MDC's nadir
ALL things being equal, Harare should be the crown jewel in the MDC administrative crown. The capital is in the 18th year of the opposition administration post-2000, but many things have gone awry and...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
We are all thieves, Zivhu admits
Chivi South Member of Parliament (MP) Killer Zivhu has all but admitted that he and other well-connected ruling party politicians as well as government officials are corrupt and would not miss a good ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 10:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Dirty, dirty Harare water
The toxicity levels in Lake Chivero have reached alarming levels, twice the stipulated minimum, with Harare City Council spending US$3 million monthly on a cocktail of water treatment chemicals to rem...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa led MDC looks like a grouping of selfish activists - Manyenyeni
ZIMBABWE's Movement for Democratic Change led by the 41-year-old Nelson Chamisa needs to act like a responsible opposition and less like a grouping of selfish activists, former Harare Mayor Bernard Ma...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 07:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa-run councils disappoint'
DESPITE dominating some of the country's biggest municipalities, analysts say the MDC has little to show in terms of achievements since its formation in 1999.They argue that the MDC leadership...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:45hrs | | by Maxwell Sibanda
Row over new Harare roundabout
A row over a new roundabout shows the deep political divide persists in Zimbabwe, two months after disputed polls.The roundabout on Harare Drive – the road that rings the capital - has captu...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 11:47hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to embrace MDC councils
ZANU-PF says it is ready to work with the MDC Alliance that won the majority number of urban local authorities in the just-ended harmonised elections.Since the formation of the MDC in 1999, th...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 15:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
3 shortlisted for Harare town clerk post
Harare City Council yesterday approved three names to be submitted to the Local Government Board (LGB) for appointment of a substantive town clerk in a move set to end 30 months of bickering and polit...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Moyo 'orders' Harare to conclude town clerk job fiasco
LOCAL Government minister, July Moyo has reportedly ordered Harare City Council to urgently conclude its disciplinary cases against top city managers to enable some of them to undergo interviews for t...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:34hrs | 3 | by Staff rpeorter
Gen Mujuru, Tsvangirai to receive freedom of the city honour
THE late MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been shortlisted to posthumously receive Harare City Council's freedom of the city status.Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni confirmed the development early t...Published: 26 May 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa comes under fire
MDC Alliance presidential candidate and leader of the main faction of the MDC, Nelson Chamisa, has come under fire for not condemning the abuse of sacked former deputy leader, Thokozani Khupe, who was...Published: 24 May 2018 at 15:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Forex shortages hobble delivery of garbage trucks
Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has been tasked by councillors to follow up on the delivery of refuse compactors that were purchased last year.According to ordinary council minutes, acting tow...Published: 05 May 2018 at 14:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Vote out uneducated councillors'
OUTGOING Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has challenged residents to use the upcoming elections to vote for educated councillors with ability to comprehend various issues affecting the capital city, s...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare mayor quits MDC-T
HARARE's outgoing mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has announced that he is quitting politics to focus on his family as his five-year term in office winds up.During a state of the city address on Wedn...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 10:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare's dirty and smelly water
Harare's piped water is dirty and smells foul when it is available, but scientific research indicates that it could also be killing residents slowly and silently.Health minister David Parireny...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Vendors give govt 48-hour ultimatum to create jobs
Vendors have given government a 48-hour ultimatum to create jobs for them so that they are able to leave the streets. The ultimatum comes barely a day after government also gave the vendors the same o...Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 10:46hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Drink tap water at own risk, says Harare Mayor
HARARE mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has warned residents that it is now too risky to drink council tap water, as the local authority was pumping out partially treated water after running out of treatment ...Published: 30 Dec 2017 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Rename Robert Mugabe road to Emmerson Mnangagwa'
AN MDC-T Harare City councillor has proposed that Robert Mugabe Road in the capital be renamed after President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Contributing to a debate on the naming of streets in new subur...Published: 16 Dec 2017 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Maziwisa stand triggers land probe calls
Residents groups have called for investigations into land allocations by Harare City Council (HCC) following Highfield legislator Psychology Maziwisa's request to re-site water pipes that were encroac...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 13:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere suspends Harare councillors
Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has suspended three Harare City (HCC) councillors over their alleged involvement in a $31 million tender scam.Councillors Wilton Janjazi, Urayayi M...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 14:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere issues ultimatum
A TRIBUNAL set up to investigate Harare City Council's salary scandal has, up to today, to table its findings after they failed to meet their deadline by two months.The probe team, chaired by ...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's tollgates idea shot down
Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has shot down suggestions by Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere to introduce urban tollgates, saying toll money would be po...Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 16:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere orders suspension of Harare MDC-T councillors
LOCAL Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has ordered Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni to suspend four MDC-T councillors until their corruption cases have been finalised by the courts.Kasuku...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents push against urban tollgates
HARARE residents have pleaded with the government to shelve plans to introduce urban tollgates, saying the economic environment is not conducive to have motorists pay more levies.Combined Hara...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mushore's salary arrears rise to over $130 000
Harare City Council now owes suspended town clerk James Mushore more than $130 000 in unpaid salaries for the past 13 months as the government and the local authority continue to squabble over his app...Published: 10 May 2017 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T roasts Kasukuwere
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC yesterday waded into Zanu-PF's ugly factional and succession wars, accusing embattled Local Government minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, of vindictively suspendin...Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 18:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare executives' salaries being investigated
Harare City Council has set up a tribunal chaired by former High Court judge, Justice George Smith, to probe allegations that top executives at Town House were still getting hefty salaries at a ti...Published: 03 Mar 2017 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare mayor defends Bulawayo mayor's expensive decision
HARARE mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has jumped to his Bulawayo counterpart Martin Moyo's defence, over the latter's acquisition of a top-of-the range car a year before elections.Manyenyeni too...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare vows to continue vendor blitz
Harare City Council (HCC) yesterday vowed to appeal against a temporary injunction blocking the eviction of vendors from the CBD.Acting town clerk Josephine Ncube said they would escalate ...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 06:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
City mulls concrete roads
HARARE is migrating to concrete roads arguing that the traditional asphalt ones are prone to cracks and potholes. The city's road network is in bad shape with potholes making life difficult for mo...Published: 25 Jan 2017 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare pays huge price for wetlands destruction
Looking at the sky, his face seemingly disturbed by the dark clouds above, Marlon Sixpence (not his real name) mutters something like "yakuuya futi" [the rains are coming again]'.He is ref...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:35hrs | | by Tapiwa Zivira
Floods displace 30 families in Harare
HARARE City Council has teamed up with the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society to evacuate and provide emergency shelter for at least 30 families displaced by flooding in Budiriro 5 Extension.Counc...Published: 16 Jan 2017 at 05:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Typhoid outbreak, ministers blame each other- Ngwenya
Political analyst Rejoice Ngwenya has said the Zanu PF ministers are resorting to blaming each on the outbreak of typhoid in Harare instead of finding solution to the problem."Harare is curren...Published: 06 Jan 2017 at 04:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Kasukuwere order Harare mayor to reinstate Human and Capital director
Minister of Local Government ,Public Works and National Housing-Honorable Saviour Kasukuwere has ordered Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni to reinstate Human Capital director Cainos Chimombe and Acting ...Published: 03 Dec 2016 at 07:22hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Pomona dumpsite burns horror
MANY Zimbabweans have watched in horror pictures of Chinese cities covered in smog with people walking around wearing face masks to counter the effects of the dirty air.For a number of Har...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
City to benchmark salaries against service delivery
Harare City Council is set to carry out a salary survey and benchmarking against service delivery following stakeholders' concerns that the city is spending much of its revenue towards employment ...Published: 13 Oct 2016 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mushore fluff haunts Harare
Harare City Council cannot appoint another town clerk until the courts deal with two pending matters which are before the Constitutional and Supreme Courts, Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has said. ...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF targets MDC-T councils
Fast-tracking of the Local Government Amendment Bill is a ploy by the Zanu-PF government to take over MDC-run local authorities before the 2018 elections, pressure groups have said.Centre for ...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 15:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Local Govt bill is a 'Manyenyeni must go Bill'
MDC-T senator Sithembile Mlotshwa has blasted Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere for making efforts to buldoze the shoddy local government Bill into law with only the zeal to have Harare May...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Local Govt Bill a clear criminal abuse of power by Kasukuwere and colleagues- Analyst
Political analyst Pedzisai Ruhanya has said the Local Government Bill which the Ruling Zanu PF legislators has voted for is a clear criminal abuse of power by the ruling party and the Minister Saviour...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 07:53hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Manyenyeni faces more charges
Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni failed to appear in court yesterday because the State is still adding more charges, his lawyer Professor Lovemore Madhuku said.Addressing journalists at the...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 08:19hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni to appear in court today
Harare Residents Trust has revealed the Harare Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni who is embroiled in a bitter wrangle with Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere who has been arrested for alleged cases o...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Reinstated Harare mayor arrested - developing story
Reinstated Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni joy has been short-lived as he has reportedly been arrested.Various media reports indicate that Manyenyeni was picked for questioning...Published: 29 Jun 2016 at 10:47hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
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