HARARE – In a strategic move to modernize its notoriously fragmented accounting systems, the City of Harare has announced the procurement of 100 state-of-the-art computers to support the full-scale rollout of its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The update was delivered by Ward 18 Councillor Rufaro Matsika during a high-level consultative meeting with the Borrowdale Residents and Ratepayers Association (BRRA) at the Borrowdale Country Club on Tuesday night.

At several major intersections along Harare’s busiest corridors, Seke Road and Dieppe Road, Chiremba Road and Glenara Avenue, and Robert Mugabe Road and Julius Nyerere Way, a curious scene unfolds almost daily. The traffic lights are fully operational. The signals change as designed. Yet traffic police officers stand in the middle of the junction, whistles sharp against the noise, manually directing vehicles.