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Mutare City Council has been slammed for violating the Urban Council’s Act after failing to timeously audit its finances having last done so five years ago.A hard-hitting forensic audit investigation report on land management from 2007 to March 2018 revealed that the last audit was for the financial year ending December 31, 2014.
By Bernard Chiketo Former Mutare mayor Brian James was yesterday arrested for illegal parking. James was arrested as he arrived at a local hotel for a public hearing by the Parliament Public Accounts Committee which is receiving oral evidence on the problems blighting the city. The former mayor was dragged by the trousers’ belt as […]
MUTARE – The Morgan Tsvangirai led faction here has won a property ownership tussle today after the acquittal of its members in a case of unlawful entry and malicious damage to property reported by the Tendai Biti-led rebel group.
There is an outcry in the MDC-T over attempts by the party leadership to spare sitting legislators from facing primary elections, with some aspiring candidates describing the move as “undemocratic”.
Mutare Mayor Brian James recently announced his intention to go on a ‘leave of absence’ in protest at a refusal by his councillors to have the city’s finances audited. The Mayor was a guest on Question Time and told SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma that the councillors refused to accept his request to go and discussions resulted in an amicable resolution of the crisis. So what really happened?
MUTARE – Mutare mayor, Brian Leslie James, has “temporarily” stepped down from the city top job citing resistance by councillors and management to “bring sanity” to the border city.
The trial for Mutare Mayor, Brian James, failed to take off on Thursday last week after the State discovered that evidence contained in the docket could not sustain the trumped-up charges of assault and malicious damage to property. State prosecutor, Walter Saunyama, then decided to drop the charges. Mayor James was facing false allegations of […]