Media expert Simbarashe Namusi critiques Zimbabwe’s cyclical urban clean-up campaigns, arguing that displacing vendors like Mai Chiedza treats symptoms rather than structural economic issues.

Despite a strict warning from municipal authorities to vacate street pavements by September 9, informal traders in Harare’s Central Business District (CBD) remain unfazed, setting up stall spaces as usual and vowing to resist relocation.

A Harare man has been arrested by ZACC on allegations of defrauding home seekers of US$4,580 using fake City of Harare offer letters and forged council documents in a residential stands scam.

HARARE – The City of Harare has issued a final assurance to residents and the business community that the major maintenance works at Warren Control are in their concluding stages. Following a rigorous 72-hour emergency repair cycle, water is expected to begin flowing back into the city’s taps by late this evening, Monday, March 30, 2026.