{"id":79215,"date":"2023-06-18T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T09:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/redcliff-earmarks-250-hectares-for-ambitious-smart-city-project"},"modified":"2023-06-18T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T12:34:07","slug":"redcliff-earmarks-250-hectares-for-ambitious-smart-city-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/redcliff-earmarks-250-hectares-for-ambitious-smart-city-project","title":{"rendered":"Redcliff earmarks 250 hectares for ambitious smart city\u00a0project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span><b>By William Milasi<\/b><\/p>\n<p>REDCLIFF Town which is eyeing city status by the year 2030 has availed at least 250 hectares of land for the development of a smart city.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a tour of devolution projects recently, Redcliff\u2019s Town Clerk Gilson Chakauaya said the local authority has since forwarded applications for the ambitious project to the central government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have 250 hectares of land that has been earmarked for the setting up of a smart city and we have put in all requisite applications through our ministry and the Minister of Local Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are in the process of setting up a working task force that will work with us in terms of implementation of the smart city concept which goes in tandem with our vision of us being a city by 2030. That smart city will enhance our operations as a local authority but more importantly, expand our revenue base,\u201d Chakauya said.<\/p>\n<p>Chakauya said there are various investment opportunities that can be explored within the local authority which is situated about 220 kilometres southwest of the capital city of Harare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of investment opportunities we have a number of investment opportunities we have commercial land, we have land for housing and we also have opportunities around water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Redcliff relies on Kwekwe for the provision of water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you are aware we get water from Kwekwe City, we are in discussions with Kwekwe City and we are engaging almost bi-weekly on this issue of a permanent solution of how they can assist each other so that we don\u2019t keep having this long outstanding debt which has accrued over the years. Our intention is for Redcliff to be completely weaned from Kwekwe City it cannot be an overnight process we are in discussions on how they can assist in terms of that separation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The town boss also highlighted that the local authority has managed to attract investors for Redcliff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also managed through smart partnerships to attract a number of investors. We have an existing investor called Livetouch they expanded their plant into a new line they acquired 20 hectares of land and they set up a plant, which will be doing mainly concrete poles, which are used by ZETDC and councils,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. By William Milasi REDCLIFF Town which is eyeing city status by the year 2030 has availed at least 250 hectares of land for the development of a smart city. Speaking during a tour of devolution projects recently, Redcliff\u2019s Town Clerk Gilson Chakauaya said the local authority has since forwarded applications for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":79214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-79215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"tag-africa-press","10":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","11":"tag-zimbabwe"},"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>Redcliff earmarks 250 hectares for ambitious smart city\u00a0project - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By William Milasi REDCLIFF Town which is eyeing city status by the year 2030 has availed at least 250 hectares o ...\" \/>\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\/redcliff-earmarks-250-hectares-for-ambitious-smart-city-project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Redcliff earmarks 250 hectares for ambitious smart city\u00a0project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By William Milasi REDCLIFF Town which is eyeing city status by the year 2030 has availed at least 250 hectares o ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/redcliff-earmarks-250-hectares-for-ambitious-smart-city-project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-06-18T09:13:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-18T12:34:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/06\/sm_1687075298.203671.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/redcliff-earmarks-250-hectares-for-ambitious-smart-city-project\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/redcliff-earmarks-250-hectares-for-ambitious-smart-city-project\",\"name\":\"Redcliff earmarks 250 hectares for ambitious smart city\u00a0project - 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