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Monday, 13 May 2013 10:49
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC is considering clearing an expelled Chitungwiza councillor to contest in primary elections as reward for blowing the whistle on corruption in the municipality. MDC sacked all the councillors it had in the dormitory town...Read More
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 11:31
HARARE - A scandal is brewing in Harare City Council after councillors and a top official acquired commercial pieces of land for a song. Councillors Girisoti Mandere, Thomas Muzuva and Masiye Kapare and director of Urban Planning Services Psychology Chiwanga have...Read More
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Tuesday, 07 May 2013 13:59
HARARE - There is unease in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC on whether to allow sitting councillors fingered in graft to run on the party’s ticket in the next election. While reports indicate the party is cracking over sitting MPs who...Read More
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Monday, 06 May 2013 11:32
HARARE - City councilors never cease to amaze. If they are not demanding hefty sitting allowances, they are embroiled in some form of controversy. This is the tragedy of electing fly-by-night people who have no idea of what their relevant office...Read More
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Sunday, 05 May 2013 14:03
HARARE - Harare city councillors want to award themselves iPads in one of the last council sessions before a general election expected after June. The package comes after councillors have approved the purchase of a Toyota Land Cruiser VXV8 valued at...Read More
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013 11:24
MASVINGO - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has expelled four Gutu councillors over corruption, with the party claiming this is in line with their policy to weed out corrupt officials. The provincial executive served the four councillors with their expulsion letters...Read More
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Tuesday, 02 April 2013 10:26
HARARE - Harare councillors have approved a $2 million loan the city council intends to borrow from Metbank for the purchase of refuse trucks. Council last year made a resolution to procure 27 refuse removal trucks and five compactors aimed at...Read More
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Wednesday, 13 March 2013 11:14
HARARE - An aspiring Manicaland councillor in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF is battling for life at Rusape Hospital after surviving a petrol bomb attack in a suspected politically-motivated case, police have confirmed. National police spokesperson Charity Charamba said police are...Read More
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Friday, 11 January 2013 12:43
HARARE - A councillor who was sacked after blowing the whistle on $1,6 million corruption in the Umguza rural district in Matabeleland North has dragged Local Government, Rural and Urban Development minister Ignatius Chombo to court for unlawful termination. Councillor Mxolisi...Read More
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Wednesday, 05 December 2012 15:06
HARARE - The move by Finance minister Tendai Biti to strip councils of procurement powers will result in disease outbreaks, Harare councillors have warned. Biti last month issued a directive to all local authorities instructing them to stop procuring goods without...Read More
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Friday, 23 November 2012 10:18
HARARE - Ignatius Chombo, the local government minister’s recent land probe team is meant to punish more MDC councilors. MDC councillors claim Chombo is out to destroy them through a land probe team meant to investigate cooperatives and has targeted at...Read More
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Saturday, 10 November 2012 13:20
BULAWAYO - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC got a boost yesterday when they received 11 councillors from the Welshman Ncube-led MDC in Matabeleland South Province. Eleven councillors in Umzingwane led by their Rural District Council (RDC) chairperson, Melusi Mpofu, said they...Read More
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Wednesday, 07 November 2012 10:57
HARARE - A brawl over the distribution of state-subsidised grain has landed an Insiza MDC official in court. Nivas Dube, an MDC councillor in Insiza area, allegedly pounced on a police officer who was trying to restore order at a chaotic...Read More
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Wednesday, 07 November 2012 10:41
MASVINGO - Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo’s onslaught on MDC councillors has claimed one official here. Chombo has suspended MDC Ward 8 councillor Misheck Gapare on allegations of mismanagement of council property and unprofessional conduct. The suspension is meant to pave...Read More
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Monday, 05 November 2012 12:26
HARARE - Expelled MDC councillors in Chitungwiza have been given a political lifeline following a decision by the party to readmit them after three years in the political wilderness, albeit as ordinary card-carrying members. MDC had sacked all the 21 councillors...Read More
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