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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
Council boss blows thousands on bling
Chiredzi Council, which is struggling to deliver standard services to its 300 000plus residents, is in the eye of a storm following revelations that the local authority could be pampering its executiv...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 17:56hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council employs nurses past retirement
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) may soon start employing nurses past the retirement age of 65 as it grapples with the effects of brain drain after it emerged that the local authority is losing younger...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Probe over Figtree stands allocation
BULILIMA Rural District Council in Matabeleland South Province is investigating allegations that the local authority's Chief Executive Officer, Mr John Brown Ncube illegally allocated 30 Figtree housi...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Delay in stands allocation riles Bulawayo residents
MORE than 60 beneficiaries of a housing scheme in Emganwini thronged Nketa Housing Office in Bulawayo on Thursday last week demanding answers from the local authority on the continued delay in availin...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi council rocked by stands scam
A Social media message on the sale of residential stands purported to be from the Nkayi Rural Development initiative (NRDi) has left the Matabeleland North rural district council divided.Counc...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 18:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 Chitungwiza councillors arrested
Five of the 33 Chitungwiza Municipality councillors and officials picked up for questioning during a meeting, convened in contravention of the Urban Councils Act to replace the acting town clerk after...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Service delivery has deteriorated to unprecedented levels in Harare
SERVICE delivery has deteriorated to unprecedented levels in Harare with residents going for days without water, while garbage goes for months uncollected. At the centre of the rot is the MDC ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warrant of arrest for Zanu-PF MP
A warrant of arrest was issued for Andrew Nkani, the Zanu-PF MP for Chakari on Monday after he failed to show up in court to face fraud charges.Nkani, a director of Forward Housing Cooperative...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 15:00hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Order must be restored at Bulawayo City Hall
Bulawayo City Council has dominated the headlines for all the wrong reasons over the past fortnight. They have grossly mishandled the ongoing rehabilitation of the city's water wor...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:59hrs | | by Editorial comment
Kasukuwere, Mombeshora named in land scam
HUNDREDS of people risk losing residential properties in the newly-established medium and high-density suburbs of Kia Ora in Banket after it emerged that former Local Government minister Saviour Kasuk...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF youths call for transparency in land allocations
Zanu PF Manicaland Youth League has called for transparency in land allocation following alleged corrupt dealings in the past that saw youths failing to benefit from land programmes.There are ...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 13:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Moyo's caretaker commissions illegal'
Commissions set up to run local authorities by Local Government minister July Moyo are illegal and should be abolished, constitutional and local government experts have said.This comes after M...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 15:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt appoints commissioners to run local authorities
Government has appointed commissioners to run local authorities countrywide to avert a leadership vacuum as the newly-elected councillors are yet to take oath of office.In Harare, government a...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa drags manager to court
Flamboyant businessman Philip Chiyangwa's company - Pinnacle Property Holdings (Pinnacle) - has dragged its site manager to court for allegedly siphoning $6 500 received from clients.The a...Published: 16 Nov 2016 at 13:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council pushes for prepaid metres to get kick back from supplier
Councillors and officials at the scandals ridden Municipality of Gwanda are reportedly frantically pushing residents to hurriedly take up prepaid water metres in order for them to receive a kick back ...Published: 20 Jun 2016 at 14:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Stands allocation apolitical, claims Kasukuwere
THE allocation of 20,000 residential stands to youths in Bulawayo by the government will not be done on political grounds, a Cabinet Minister has said.The Minister of Local Government, Public ...Published: 10 May 2016 at 07:25hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Overcrowding rocks Harare flats
Harare Residents Trust has claimed that there is serious over crowding at many flats in Harare signifying the need for holistic approach to the national housing problem in the country.The trus...Published: 06 May 2016 at 06:58hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Zapu Bulawayo province on Councillors stands allocation
The Bulawayo Province of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) vehemently supports the position and statements of the Bulawayo Residents Association on the rampant corruption, gross political abu...Published: 14 Apr 2016 at 09:34hrs | | by Mkhululi Zulu
CSO cries foul over escalation of human rights violations
A Human, Civil and Political Rights lobby organization, Heal Zimbabwe has condemned violence that reportedly erupted in Chitungwiza over the weekend where ZANU PF youths working in cahoots with membe...Published: 24 Mar 2015 at 12:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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