Harare’s Mayor needs to wake up
How do you feel when you get your bill from the City of Harare each month?
We get charged for refuse removal, but in many suburbs, this seldom happens. We get charged for improvements. Yet pot holes are infrequently fixed, road signs are in disrepair, if there at all, the grass on verges is uncut, litter is strewn everywhere, shopping centres like Kamfinsa look like a war zone and very few street lights work.
Yet, according to a recent Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) news alert, Harare’s Mayor, Muchadeyi Masunda, will not review the large salaries that are being paid to some employees within the council. Apparently the salaries top the US$8000/month mark.
CHRA rightly points out that the money that residents pay each month goes straight to the city’s salary bill and not to service delivery. Amusingly, the Mayor suggests that paying council workers less will result in high staff turn-over and therefore compromise service delivery.
What service delivery? Can’t see any where I live, can you?
Support the work of organisations like CHRA and their calls for rates boycotts and litigation if the Mayor doesn’t take residents concerns seriously.
Thursday, August 5th 2010 at 2:59 pm
I am totally dumpfounded by the Mayor s comments.I work in industry and I can tell you that the salaries being paid in industry which is productive are nowhere near these unproductive busy bodies.Why shoud poor ratepayers be saddled with bills simply to entertain council officials.I think the Mayor has joined the gravy train.Just move around any suburb in Harare and see the filth and potholes that abound.HE SHOULD GO!!!
Thursday, August 5th 2010 at 3:39 pm
I think the fault here lies with the MDC which is feilding greed people in public office…..This same story happened in Redcliff/Kwekwe,The MDC forwarded their favourite Rogers Chisi whom nobody liked,He ran his term as mayor even if people didnt like him