Residents' associations have criticised the Harare City Council (HCC) for its growing reliance on privatisation of key municipal services, warning that the move threatens transparency and public acco...
By Staff reporter | Published: 15 October 2025
The High Court has dismissed an application by the Upper Crowhill Residents Association seeking to challenge the gated status of Mount Breezes Borrowdale Brooke Estate and reclaim access to a disputed...
By Staff reporter | Published: 09 October 2025
Service delivery in Harare has plunged to alarming levels, with residents citing erratic water supplies, collapsing roads, irregular refuse collection and unreliable electricity as part of a worsenin...
By Staff reporter | Published: 02 October 2025
With the ink barely dry on the Cheda Commission report, more skeletons are tumbling out of Harare City Council's closet, this time centred on Borrowdale, one of the capital's most affluent suburbs now...
By Staff reporter | Published: 10 September 2025
Residents of New Lobengula in Bulawayo have expressed outrage over reports that a local youth sports field is being sold for development, warning the move could deprive young people of a safe recreati...
By Staff reporter | Published: 28 August 2025
Bulawayo residents have called on police to put the protection of lives ahead of revenue collection, accusing officers of focusing more on areas where fines can be easily collected than on crime hotsp...
By Staff reporter | Published: 18 August 2025
HARARE residents have voiced outrage over the City of Harare's (CoH) planned partnership with Discovery Ambulance, warning that the public could end up paying twice for emergency services.The counci...
By Staff reporter | Published: 16 August 2025
Harare City Council (HCC) has issued a 14-day ultimatum to tenants living in Mbare flats to settle outstanding rental arrears or face eviction, despite the residents enduring squalid and deterioratin...
By Staff reporter | Published: 14 August 2025
Bulawayo residents and the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) have taken the fight to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC), petitioning the local authority over its failure to implement the 2025 ta...
By Staff reporter | Published: 21 July 2025
Harare residents have strongly opposed the government's plan to roll out prepaid water meters in the capital, saying the move will do little to resolve the city's deepening water crisis and instead ri...
By Staff reporter | Published: 09 July 2025
Frustrated residents across Masvingo province have written to their elected representatives demanding transparency and accountability in the use of Constituency Development Funds (CDF) and ploughback ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 30 June 2025
Gweru residents have petitioned the local authority to postpone a planned revenue collection blitz - which includes water disconnections and possible property attachments - fro...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 May 2025
THE uproar by Bulawayo residents over the demolition of the iconic cooling towers at the thermal power station is justified as the community feels they have been repeatedly shortchanged, analysts have...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 July 2019
DESPERATION and panic have hit Bulawayo as most suburbs have gone without water for eight days following major refurbishment works at the city's reservoirs with residents accusing council of poor plan...
By Staff reporter | Published: 09 July 2019
Zesa spokesperson Fullard Gwasira said vandalism of Zesa property was becoming more rampant, particularly in Bulawayo and blamed this on the economy and unemployed technicians."Zesa property is vandal...
By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2019
BULAWAYO residents are complaining about poor service delivery at banks in the city when changing their foreign currency into local currency. The residents said they are made to wait for long hours be...
By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2019
RESIDENTS here have taken a dig at Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni for rejecting objections to his mooted tariff hike.The city fathers have been conducting supplementary budget consultative meetings, ahe...
By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019
BULAWAYO residents have reacted angrily to threats by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to forge ahead with rates and tariff increases due to runaway inflation despite resistance from ratepayers.The BCC...
By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019
SCORES of desperate residents were on Wednesday and yesterday forced to walk into town to buy groceries as some shops in their respective residential suburbs were vandalised by hooligans. Some unscrup...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 January 2019
CHAOS reigned supreme during voting for the next Victoria Falls mayor and deputy as residents protested imposition of a candidate by the MDC Alliance. While the swearing in process went on peacefully,...
By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018
THERE was drama at Barham Green Hall in Bulawayo South constituency when residents took parliamentary candidates to task over their frivolous promises, resulting in some of them storming out of the me...
By Staff reporter | Published: 25 July 2018
HARARE residents have expressed concern over the exorbitant charges of 4% on deceased estate duty charged by government.In a statement yesterday, the Harare Residents Trust said the fee charged should...
By Staff reporter | Published: 14 July 2018
BULAWAYO Central residents said they are living in fear of Zanu PF victimisation if the party's candidate Mlungisi Moyo, who has been soliciting votes through mobile phone messages, loses the July 30 ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018
Irate Harare residents have threatened to dump putrid refuse bags at municipal offices around the city to protest delayed rubbish collection over a period of a few weeks.Residents are threatening to t...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 July 2018
RESIDENTS have taken Mutare City Council to the High Court over its alleged failure to audit its financial books for the last five years.The United Mutare Residents and Ratepayers' Trust (UMRRT), led ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018
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