Wednesday, March 15th, 2017
The floods that pounded Harare recently causing millions of dollars of damage to residential properties have left residents and the local authority (City of Harare) pitted against each other. One such victim is Faustine Mukazhe (63) of Budiriro, who lost a house, household goods worth thousands of dollars to the floods. For her it was
Thursday, January 19th, 2017
Photo: A resident ponders the rainy New Caledonia landscape in January. New Caledonia is one area which has seen illegal land grabs abound. (Harry Davies) Story by Harry Davies and Farai Dauramanzi With the 2018 elections drawing near,...
Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
Environmentalists and residents in the capital have welcomed the court’s decision to block property developers from constructing at least 121 cluster houses on the Monavale Vlei. Administrative Court judge, Justice Herbert Mandeya, delivered the judgment early November...
Thursday, June 2nd, 2016
Residents evicted from Lot 15 Glentor in Chishawasha have expressed gratitude for help received after being relocated to Hatcliffe under difficult circumstances. Various private sector, civil society, and community groups stepped in to help the 480 families...
Friday, January 15th, 2016
Life has become unbearable for residents whose illegal homes were demolished by the city. Beginning in July last year, council has demolished illegal housing developments that have mushroomed around Harare in an effort to bring sanity to...
Tuesday, October 13th, 2015
Over six thousand home seekers at Retreat settlement near Waterfalls could lose a total of $3,600,000 after their stands were parcelled out to other home seekers in yet another of Harare’s on-going land scams. Harare News visited the...
Monday, July 6th, 2015
City of Harare has resolved to sell its rented residential accommodation to sitting tenants who have been in occupation for twenty years or more. Many residents of council properties have called the buildings home for decades but,...
Thursday, April 9th, 2015
City of Harare and CABS in February reduced the deposits for houses built under the Budiriro Housing Project from 25% to 10% of the total value. However, the total price of the houses remains the same. Writing...
Thursday, March 19th, 2015
Rapid population growth including rural to urban migration has choked Harare, a city unable to absorb the rapid influx of new residents. At the heart of the issue is an affordable housing backlog of about half a...
Thursday, November 20th, 2014
On 16 October, 2,000 houses built in Budiriro under the CABS housing scheme were handed over to Council by Dr Ignatius Chombo, Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing. The ceremony was part of the...
