Tag: Harare City Council

The Ministry of local Govt received proposed budgets from all local authorities. From all local authorities, Harare City Council and Hwange Local Board have had their budgets rejected. There are ...

A FORMER Harare City Council (HCC) chief clerical officer appeared on Thursday before magistrate Donald Ndirowei facing a charge of abuse of office in a deal involving the purchase of ...

Zimbabweans are expressing outrage over a disturbing incident in which Harare Municipal Police officers dragged a female vendor on the road. The Harare City Council and the Zimbabwe Republic Police ...

THE Harare City Council continues to hog the limelight for the wrong reasons with the latest being motorists who have red flagged the City Council’s ineptitude in the maintenance of ...

The Harare City Council has conceded that the removal of street vendors has been a failure. The Government recently ordered the local authority to remove vendors from the streets in ...

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Spokesperson George Charamba has suggested that he invokes Presidential Powers and take over control of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) run Harare City Council. Posting on ...

Harare faces further risks of cholera infection with the shortage of public toilets in the city centre as the majority are closed or inaccessible. The city has public toilets dotted ...

Half of the boreholes in Harare’s western and northern districts are contaminated with human waste, the City of Harare epidemiology and disease control officer, Dr Michael Vere, has said. Harare’s ...

Harare City Council (HCC) has allocated US$216 million to undertake key projects meant to turn around service provision in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector. The capital city has ...

AS light drizzle falls in Mbare, customers trudge cautiously in the muddy and slippery dirt paths, navigating their way through an array of knee-high tables belonging to street vendors. People ...

Vendors in Harare have vowed to defy a directive by authorities to vacate the Central Building District (CBD) and the streets they sell their wares from, saying they will only ...

Government has given the Harare City Council a seven-day ultimatum to decisively deal with vendors plying their trade at non-designated spots as this is aiding the cholera outbreak. Failure to ...

Efforts to curb the spread of cholera in Harare are under threat after a power cut on Monday this week affected the city’s main water supply treatment plant, Morton Jaffray, ...

In a heartbreaking turn of events, a 37-year-old man from Harare lost his life after being run over by a Harare City Council front-end loader while he was sleeping at ...

THE Harare City Council has once again come under fire with commuter omnibus operators demanding viable operating space to end the chaos in the Central Business District. Harare has been ...

ONGOING countrywide power cuts have hit Harare’s largest water treatment plant, Morton Jaffray resulting in the capital city going dry Wednesday. Harare City Council’s Morton Jaffray Water Works was hit ...

Harare City Council has been again cited in the most recent report on Local Authorities by the Auditor-General for not providing a complete accounting of its finances. According to Acting ...

HARARE City Council (HCC) yesterday unveiled an over US$500 million budget aimed at improving water reticulation and other key service areas. Announcing the city’s 2024 budget, council’s finance and development ...

“The life of excreting in buckets is not easy. Right now, the toilet is blocked and has been unusable for months, so we are forced to relieve ourselves in buckets. ...

GOVERNMENT says it is purchasing a month’s supply of water treatment chemicals for Harare City Council in a move meant to bail out the cash-strapped local authority currently failing to ...

Harare City Council has started cleaning the city drainages in preparation for the fast-approaching rainy season. The central business district has suffered flash floods in the past due to late ...

In reaction to recent claims of excessive spending by Harare City Council politicians, the council has published a clarification statement. The dispute erupted after it was revealed that councillors had ...