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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The City of Harare (CoH) is in a financial crisis and is failing to pay its workers on time for the first time in many years.<\/p>\n

This emerged during a revenue collection, generation maximisation and cost containment brainstorming meeting held in Harare on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The meeting, which was attended by Town clerk Hosea Chisango and district officers in the capital, was meant to devise ways to improve revenue collection.<\/p>\n

Speaking during the meeting, Chisango openly admitted that the Harare City Council is in a financial crisis. He said:<\/p>\n

We are here because the City of Harare is in a financial crisis. For the first time in many years, we are failing to pay salaries on time.<\/p>\n

l want to encourage all of you to communicate openly when we are brainstorming on how to improve revenue collection.<\/p>\n

This will build a culture of trust and collaboration, which is essential for achieving our goals.<\/p>\n

As district officers in your new enhanced roles as drivers of service delivery and revenue collection at the local level, it is important that you are customer-responsive, dedicated and self-driven, particularly in ensuring that the residents in your districts pay for the services rendered.<\/p>\n

You must be self-driven in ensuring that customer complaints are addressed on time.<\/p>\n

You will all agree with me that we have reached an all-time low in revenue collection because as a collective, we have not made reasonable efforts to collect what we are owed.<\/p>\n

Harare is struggling to provide clean running water for residents as well as collect refuse consistently due to financial constraints.<\/p>\n

The local authority requires millions every month to purify water from its heavily polluted water sources.<\/p>\n

In July this year, the Harare City Council tried to switch to US dollar rates collection but the Government reversed the move.<\/p>\n

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