{"id":100944,"date":"2024-11-22T16:18:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/over-100000-illegal-homes-in-harare-arent-paying-bills-mafume"},"modified":"2024-11-22T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T16:38:00","slug":"over-100000-illegal-homes-in-harare-arent-paying-bills-mafume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/over-100000-illegal-homes-in-harare-arent-paying-bills-mafume","title":{"rendered":"Over 100,000 Illegal Homes In Harare Aren&#8217;t Paying Bills &#8211; Mafume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Harare Mayor, Councillor Jacob Mafume, revealed that owners of over 100,000 illegally built houses in the capital are not paying rates to the city council.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a prominent user on X (formerly Twitter) commenting on a Sunday Mail story about the City of Harare\u2019s plan to demolish 5,000 illegally constructed houses, Mafume clarified that the number of illegal houses is actually much higher.<\/p>\n<p>He added that these homes were built on land originally designated for schools, clinics, and sorting facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Mafume also disclosed that the Harare City Council had suspended the demolitions due to the elections and the SADC summit. He wrote on X:<\/p>\n<p>These are built on schools, clinics, open spaces &amp; sports grounds. We stopped because of elections and the SADC. Children are forced to move 8 km to school. Clinics are non-existent. Houses are flooding. It has to be corrected&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The irregular settlements number over 100000 houses in and around Harare.<\/p>\n<p>The illegal houses will soon outnumber the legal rate-paying houses of Harare. The 322000 households we bill foot the bill for everyone!<\/p>\n<p>ZANU PF land barons have been implicated in the syndicates that has been illegally parcelling out land in the City. Said Mafume:<\/p>\n<p>They do not own the land. They seek no approval from anyone from start to finish. They just build at will and with no due care and regard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Zimbabwe Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Harare Mayor, Councillor Jacob Mafume, revealed that owners of over 100,000 illegally built houses in the capital are not paying rates to the city council. 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