{"id":19701,"date":"2020-02-19T23:09:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=19701"},"modified":"2020-02-19T23:09:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:09:19","slug":"harare-city-desperate-to-make-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-city-desperate-to-make-money","title":{"rendered":"Harare city desperate to make money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harare City Council is reportedly desperate for money yet it is accused of caring less for the ratepayers.<\/p>\n<p>Harare Residents Association in a statement said the City of Harare is too desperate to make money from people, but they care very little about providing services to the ratepayers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this sample ticket, they intend to find business operators and shop owners for all the litter in front of their shops and businesses. The City of Harare does not learn real citizens\u2019 engagement. They just impose and impose, without thinking of the damage to their brand,\u201d the association said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is like the Council is working from outside Harare. The first step is to conduct massive consultations on ways to address waste management. Before thinking of fining people, the Council should be exemplary and start providing refuse collection services as charged on ratepayers bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The association said they cannot just dream of penalties without ever thinking of how to address genuine concerns faced by ratepayers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly a clueless council leadership does this. Their goal is money making, and never service provision,\u201d the association said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harare City Council is reportedly desperate for money yet it is accused of caring less for the ratepayers. Harare Residents Association in a statement said the City of Harare is too desperate to make money from people, but they care very little about providing services to the ratepayers. \u201cWith this sample ticket, they intend to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[91,936],"class_list":["post-19701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-harare","tag-harare-hospital"],"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 city desperate to make money - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Harare City Council is reportedly desperate for money yet it is accused of caring less for the ratepayers.Harare Residents Association in a statement\" \/>\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-city-desperate-to-make-money\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harare city desperate to make money\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Harare City Council is reportedly desperate for money yet it is accused of caring less for the ratepayers.Harare Residents Association in a statement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-city-desperate-to-make-money\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-19T21:09:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2019\/12\/1403502497_3-HolidayInnHarareExterior-1-680x380.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"680\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"380\" \/>\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-city-desperate-to-make-money#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-city-desperate-to-make-money\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Harare city desperate to make money\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-19T21:09:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-city-desperate-to-make-money\"},\"wordCount\":189,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-city-desperate-to-make-money#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2019\/12\/1403502497_3-HolidayInnHarareExterior-1-680x380.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"harare\",\"Harare Hospital\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-city-desperate-to-make-money#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-city-desperate-to-make-money\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-city-desperate-to-make-money\",\"name\":\"Harare city desperate to make money - 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