Harare City Council

Brenna Matendere Harare—The Mafios Cheda commission of inquiry into the affairs of the capital must broaden its focus to include central government, which is also responsible for the rot at the Harare municipality, observers have urged.…

Marshall Bwanya Two African proverbs are usefully relevant to the Maphios Cheda Commission of Inquiry into the affairs of the Harare City Council. The first, a Zimbabwean one, cautions against celebrating a witch hunter that…

Kudzayi Zvivanashe Harare—Residents of Harare face a potential breakdown in essential services as a bitter standoff between the Harare City Council (HCC) and its employees escalates over unpaid salaries. The Zimbabwe Municipalities…

Takunda Mandura Harare—Mbare flats, built in colonial time era, stand as a stark reminder of the country’s grim urban history. And decades of neglect have left these structures in a perilous state, with crumbling walls, leaking pipes,…

Marshall Bwanya Harare—The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) rapidly intervened to halt a potentially devastating housing development on a crucial wetland in Greystone Park in Borrowdale, Harare. Local residents raised alarm last…

Edgar Gweshe Harare—In May 2024, President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a commission of inquiry into financial and corporate mismanagement at Harare City Council. Led by a retired High Court judge, Maphios Cheda, the commission was…

Edgar Gweshe Harare - A major confrontation is brewing between the government and residents’ associations across the country over a plan to privatise water provision in Harare, Bulawayo, and Victoria Falls. Residents’ associations…

Crisis... Harare residents queue at a borehole, waiting for their turn to collect water. (Photo credit: REUTERS) Edgar Gweshe Harare - For over three decades, residents of Mabvuku have lived without reliable access to…

Winston Antonio Harare- Harare City Council is too compromised to take action against land barons behind the illegal settlements sprouting around the capital, including ecologically-sensitive areas such as wetlands, it has been…