HARARE City Council’s decision to do away with the decentralisation model and revert back to conducting all business at Rowan Martin has been received with criticism. In February the city decided to dismantle the eight zones they had created as a way of promoting ease of doing business. The eight zones were meant to assist…
FOR the past three years, local authorities across the country have been giving their various debtors discounts ranging between 30 and 50 percent. The discounts, according to the mayors and chairpersons of the councils, were meant to entice ratepayers to settle their ballooning debts. [GoogleAd] The trend was popularised after the disastrous debt write-off of…
HARARE residents say council should scrap fixed waste and water charges from their bills as the services are not being provided. According to residents’ associations that spoke to the Daily News, council has been fleecing ratepayers of money yet they are not living up to their mandate. [GoogleAd] The fixed charges are pegged at $5…
A TEAM from the World Bank has approached Harare City Council (HCC) with a proposal to conduct an analysis of cholera hot-spots in the city. According to environmental management committee minutes the study will look at ways of mitigating the waterborne diseases. Last year Harare was the epicentre of the cholera outbreak which saw more…
ZIMBABWE’s economy has for long been dogged by multiple man-created obstacles, confining it in the abyss it has been struggling to get out of for decades. Once these obstacles are removed economic growth is realised through liberalising labour as well as product and service markets, developments that spur job creation and productivity. Currently, unemployment is…
After 40 years of the biblical Moses being in the desert, God hears the cries of His people under their Egyptian bondage and decides He will deliver them. God first makes contact with Moses through a burning bush. Initially, an angel of the Lord appears to Moses in a flame of fire from the midst…
EDITOR — Corruption can be defined as the misuse of public power for private benefit, involving underhand deals such as misappropriation of public funds. The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has vowed to take stringent measures against corruption in all its operations. [GoogleAd] Government departments should also take a leaf from Zimra which has since showed…
Editor — Instead of looking for more benefits and entitlement, it is time for the war veterans to proffer ideas to save their country. In their prime age now, most war veterans are grandfathers and grandmothers. [GoogleAd] They must start acting their age, acknowledging their generation has ruined the prospects of one or two generations…
EDITOR — The water situation in Harare has become so critical such that many people are turning to boreholes for clean water. Borehole water in this country was especially used to keep lawns and vegetation green during the dry season. Watering lawns and vegetation with borehole water accounts for approximately 80 percent of borehole water…
PRICE controls is the only way to go so that business will stop unnecessary price hikes, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Service deputy minister Energy Mutodi has said. Mutodi said the government must take an urgent measure to stop arbitrary price increases. [GoogleAd] “For a country that has no currency of its own, no competitive industry and…
