housing demolitions

By Rugare Gumbo The demolitions of so-called illegal houses dotted around Harare residential suburbs is symptomatic of something very wrong in the way institutions like local government, central government, Zanu PF and indeed some…
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By Rutendo Rori There has been a massive response by residents from six suburbs that were warned by Harare City Council to either get their housing plans regularised or risk demolitions. The city’s acting corporate communications…
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By Andrew Kunambura and Idah Mhetu Irate Harare residents whose homes were destroyed last week, have made a passionate plea to President Robert Mugabe to discipline ZANU-PF Harare provincial political commissar and Harare South…
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By Sharon Muguwu HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s nephew Robert Zhuwao has bemoaned the current demolitions taking place at Arlington Farm along Airport Road. Ironically, the demolitions are taking place at the behest of none…
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Several Government officials, among them Harare provincial administrator Mr Alfred Tome, have been sucked into the Arlington Estate saga where Harare City Council is destroying houses built on land earmarked for the expansion of Harare…
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Chitungwiza residents have filed a High Court application seeking to bar the municipality from demolishing their homes.
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By Innocent Ruwende HARARE - Thousands of property owners in some of Harare’s upmarket suburbs risk having their properties demolished for non-compliance with the city’s building by-laws after they erected buildings using unapproved…
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By Takura Zhangazha Harare City Council’s (HCC) penchant for cruelty cannot be stopped or stemmed. Even on December 10, 2015 when the world pauses to remember international human rights day. It was business as usually cruel for Harare’s…
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Harare City Council yesterday demolished 200 illegal structures along High Glen and Kambuzuma Roads whose owners belong to 32 bogus housing co-operatives.
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