{"id":17665,"date":"2020-01-04T18:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T16:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=17665"},"modified":"2020-01-04T18:42:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T16:42:59","slug":"harare-city-council-sued-600k-for-unpaid-water-levies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-city-council-sued-600k-for-unpaid-water-levies","title":{"rendered":"Harare City Council Sued $600k For Unpaid Water Levies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Harare City Council has been dragged to court by a corporate water body, Upper Manyame Sub-Catchment Council, after the local authority failed to settle $615 187 in water management levy arrears.<\/p>\n<p>According to a court application filed this week at the High Court, Harare had refused to settle the debt despite demand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe defendant (City of Harare) has no defence to the plaintiffs claim but it is merely trying to buy time and pay the amount due on its own terms and when it deems fit,\u201d the summons read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the defendant had paid the invoice when it became due, then the plaintiff would not have approached the courts and incurred legal fees. Accordingly, the plaintiff is entitled to legal fees on an attorney and client scale, as the amount that is due is based on a statutory obligation to which there is no defence,\u201d read the summons.<\/p>\n<div class=\"qc01mu34\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Harare City Council has been dragged to court by a corporate water body, Upper Manyame Sub-Catchment Council, after the local authority failed to settle $615 187 in water management levy arrears. According to a court application filed this week at the High Court, Harare had refused to settle the debt despite demand. \u201cThe defendant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[224,1147],"class_list":{"0":"post-17665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-council","10":"tag-harare-central-hospital"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Harare City Council Sued $600k For Unpaid Water Levies - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Harare City Council has been dragged to court by a corporate water body, Upper Manyame Sub-Catchment Council, after the local authority failed\" \/>\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-council-sued-600k-for-unpaid-water-levies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harare City Council Sued $600k For Unpaid Water Levies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE Harare City Council has been dragged to court by a corporate water body, Upper Manyame Sub-Catchment Council, after the local authority failed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-city-council-sued-600k-for-unpaid-water-levies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-04T16:42:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Harare-City-scaled-e1576774078747.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"790\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"414\" \/>\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\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-city-council-sued-600k-for-unpaid-water-levies\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/harare-city-council-sued-600k-for-unpaid-water-levies\",\"name\":\"Harare City Council Sued $600k For Unpaid Water Levies - 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