‘Harare City Council Executives, Caught Up In salary Scandal’

Salary scandal is reported to have rocked the city of Harare with the top officials at the local authority allegedly refusing to implement the required levels demanded by the government. Harare Residents Trust said there is an ongoing scandal in the salaries structure at Harare City Council. Information that has been made available to the residents’ movement is that the City’s top four position holders are resisting to implement in full the salary levels demanded…

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Messenger Of Court Blocked By Soldiers From ZBC Studio Access For US$300,000 Debt Collection

Messenger Of Court Blocked By Soldiers From ZBC Studio Access For US$300,000 Debt Collection

  BUSINESS came to a standstill for nearly three hours at ZBC’s Pockets Hill headquarters Friday morning when soldiers manning the gates refused the Messenger of Court access to the premises. ZBC premises around the country are guarded by the Zimbabwe National Army. The Deputy Sheriff and his staff wanted to attach the financially crippled State broadcaster’s property, including vehicles over unpaid water bills and other supplementary rates. ZBC owes Harare City Council more than…

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Harare Mayor-‘Zimbabwe Needs Serious Rebranding As Image, Is Tarnished Internationally’

Harare  Mayor-‘Zimbabwe Needs Serious Rebranding  As Image,  Is Tarnished Internationally’

Bernard Manyenyeni Harare mayor yesterday said the country needed serious rebranding as its image had been tarnished internationally. Manyenyeni claimed he had been humiliated whenever he attended international conferences with different people, saying Zimbabwe needed “cleansing” as its image was bad. Manyenyeni claimed there had been several incidents where he had been mocked during international meetings. His recent trip was to South Africa. President Robert Mugabe was also recently humiliated by a Nigerian journalist where…

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Kasukuwere Tells Harare Council, ‘Cut Your Hefty Salaries Instead Of Targeting Low Earners’

Kasukuwere Tells Harare Council, ‘Cut Your Hefty Salaries Instead Of Targeting Low  Earners’

Saviour Kasukuwere Local Government minister yesterday challenged Harare City Council officials to cut down on their hefty salaries to reduce the local authority’s ballooning wage bill instead of targeting low-income earners in its proposed retrenchment exercise. Officially opening a housing project by Homelink in Tynwald, Harare, Kasukuwere said council was wrong in trying to fire 3 000 employees on three months’ notice without addressing the issue of managers’ mega salaries. Kasukuwere, however, said unproductive workers…

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Harare City Council Dismissal Of 3000 Workers Has Been Reversed By Government

Harare City Council  Dismissal Of 3000 Workers Has Been Reversed By Government

In yet another unprecedented move, and also an obvious indecisive and rushed decision making by Mugabe’s Zanu PF regime,  whose party dominate the the Harare City Council,  there has been a reversal of the Harare city council earlier dismissal of 3000 workers on three month notices,  by the government, thereby shelving the Harare City Council’s  efforts at retrenching staff. The Zanu PF Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing, Saviour Kasukuwere   exerted his power…

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‘Harare City Council, Lays Off 3000 Employees’: -Supreme Court Ruling

‘Harare City Council, Lays Off 3000 Employees’: -Supreme Court Ruling

In an  unprecedented wave of the failed Zanu PF government, orchestrated redudancies, the Harare City Council has joined the bandwagon of dismissals by  laying off a total of almost  3000 workers on three months’ notice, courtesy of the recent Supreme Court ruling. To everyone’s surprise, these dismissals have been excecuted at atime  that Mugabe’s Zanu PF regime is feigning concern by claiming that they are currently working on amending the Labour Act, to curtail the ruthless wave of dismissals….

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Zanu-PF UK Describe Land Barons As Counter Revolutionary

Zanu-PF UK Describe Land Barons As Counter Revolutionary

Zanu-PF United Kingdom Chapter has described the land barons who have caused quite a number of Zimbabweans to lose their property worthy large sums of money after selling to them land owned by the urban councils, as counter revolutionary. “Land barons are counter-revolutionaries,” the chapter. “Most of the economic problems in the country were because some third parties were not happy with the Land Reform. To now have some land barons in this very contentious…

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A1 Taxis To Provide High Volume Buses To Replace Harare Commuter Kombis: Roll On Zupco!

A1 Taxis To Provide High Volume Buses To Replace Harare Commuter Kombis: Roll On Zupco!

Harare City Council will in the coming weeks introduce high-volume buses to service various routes in the capital, imminently displacing commuter omnibuses. Latest full council minutes show that the local authority made the resolution on June 8, 2015, setting itself a target to introduce the buses “without any further delay”. A1 Taxi Company will supply the buses following its successful pilot project on the City-Mabvuku/Tafara route. This public transport system overhaul stems from Government’s plan…

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Ex Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union, ‘Lovemore Matombo’s’ Property Attached

Ex Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union, ‘Lovemore Matombo’s’ Property Attached

  Former ZCTU president Lovemore Matombo(left) speaks to Deputy Messenger of Court Mr Farai Banga over the attachment of his property in Harare yesterday There was drama at the residence of former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions president Mr Lovemore Matombo in Greendale, Harare, yesterday when his wife locked in the Deputy Sheriff who sought to attach property to recover nearly $600 owed to Harare City Council for rates.After the Deputy Sheriff managed to unlock…

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