Two Mutare City Council officials from the housing department have been sent on forced leave over murky land allocation deals.
The two officials are the Housing and Community Services Deputy Director Rofina Nyamangodo and an administrator in the department Ester Kadzutu.
The development was confirmed to Zim Morning Post by Mutare City Council spokesperson Spren Mutiwi. He said:
… I just make sure that when they [customers] come I observe social distancing [because] in as much as I need money to sustain my family, I don’t want to get infected or to infect them.
Before President Emmerson Mnangagwa issued the 21-day stay-at-home order, Mundozo was operating from Harare’s popular bus terminal – Copa Cabana.
Muzondo, like other money changers, charge fees for “cash-in, cash-out services” that allow customers on the country’s mobile EcoCash platform to convert electronic balances in their mobile money wallets into hard currency, and vice versa.
Zimbabwean authorities outlawed the use of the people’s choice of currency, the United States Dollar in June 2019.
However, following the coronavirus global pandemic outbreak, the country’s monetary authorities allowed those with “free funds” to transact in foreign currency but fixed the exchange rate at US$1: ZWL$25 far below the “real” convertibility which is currently 1:49.
