{"id":105831,"date":"2025-03-10T21:35:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T19:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-owed-over-zig5-billion-by-ratepayers"},"modified":"2025-03-25T20:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:02:51","slug":"harare-owed-over-zig5-billion-by-ratepayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-owed-over-zig5-billion-by-ratepayers","title":{"rendered":"Harare Owed Over ZiG5 Billion By Ratepayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The City of Harare is owed more than ZiG5 billion due to unpaid rates, according to Acting Finance Director Godfrey Kusangaya.<\/p>\n<p>Kusangaya revealed this information during the launch of a new effort to collect overdue payments in Harare on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that, unlike in the past when businesses owed most of the money, now a large portion of the debt is from residents. Said Kusangaya:<\/p>\n<p>Council is being owed a lot of money out there, we are being owed over ZiG5 billion and this amount is not a joke.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in the past, a huge amount of the money is coming from residents who are not paying their rates and bills.<\/p>\n<p>This time residents owe us around ZiG3 billion whereas the remainder is coming from commerce and industry.<\/p>\n<p>He said that there are several key revenue streams where the council needs to improve its collection efforts to address the growing debt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Zimbabwe<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The City of Harare is owed more than ZiG5 billion due to unpaid rates, according to Acting Finance Director Godfrey Kusangaya. Kusangaya revealed this information during the launch of a new effort to collect overdue payments in Harare on Monday morning. He pointed out that, unlike in the past when businesses owed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":105830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[1691,18149,18148,852,4806,9926,19],"class_list":["post-105831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-city-of-harare","tag-council-bills","tag-council-debt","tag-harare-city-council","tag-ratepayers","tag-unpaid-bills","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harare Owed Over ZiG5 Billion By Ratepayers - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The City of Harare is owed more than ZiG5 billion due to unpaid rates, according to Acting Finance Director Godfrey Kusa ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-owed-over-zig5-billion-by-ratepayers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harare Owed Over ZiG5 Billion By Ratepayers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The City of Harare is owed more than ZiG5 billion due to unpaid rates, according to Acting Finance Director Godfrey Kusa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-owed-over-zig5-billion-by-ratepayers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-10T19:35:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-25T18:02:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/03\/sm_1741630631.36183.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-owed-over-zig5-billion-by-ratepayers#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-owed-over-zig5-billion-by-ratepayers\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Harare Owed Over ZiG5 Billion By Ratepayers\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-10T19:35:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-25T18:02:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-owed-over-zig5-billion-by-ratepayers\"},\"wordCount\":173,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-owed-over-zig5-billion-by-ratepayers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/03\/sm_1741630631.36183.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"City of Harare\",\"Council Bills\",\"Council Debt\",\"Harare City Council\",\"Ratepayers\",\"Unpaid Bills\",\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-owed-over-zig5-billion-by-ratepayers#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-owed-over-zig5-billion-by-ratepayers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-owed-over-zig5-billion-by-ratepayers\",\"name\":\"Harare Owed Over ZiG5 Billion By Ratepayers - 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