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Bulawayo City Council has made a major climb-down on compulsory installation of pre-paid water meters. The city will now install the gadgets on a voluntary basis. The u-turn follows massive resistance of the project by the city’s residents. A trial run on the water pre-paid meters was set to begin in the last quarter of 2015 […]
By Takura Zhangazha The recent announcement by the minster of finance, Patrick Chinamasa, on the compulsory pilot placement of pre-paid water meters is a declaration of intent by government to privatise water and water supply in urban Zimbabwe. It appears rational, even somewhat sensitive, especially when the minster in his made it clear that this […]
By Dr Qhubani Moyo Tendai Carter Muchada a budding writer who also works for CHRA (Combined Harare Residents Association), one of the organisations under investigation by USAID on misappropriation of funds attempts to do some amateur critic of my arguments in support of pre-paid water meters and in the process gets over excited like a […]
The National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) rejects the publicised intention by the MDC-T run Harare City Council in tandem with the Zanu PF central government to introduce pre-paid water meters in the capital city by the end of the year.