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In Harare, where do we go from here???? Whats next???? @cohsunshinecity @UcazOfficial @MthuliNcube @Wamagaisa @UNICEFZIMBABWE @mbilez24zw @nickmangwana @hwendec @LocalGovernme13 @advocatemahere @hrw @HarareResidents @zinwawater

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The Public Arc: The Week in Brief | 5 Stories You Need to Know — Episode 1
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[Samkeliso Tshuma @samkebusiness]

I spent the whole night thinking about the Zimbabwe National Organisation of Residents Association Trust poster which is being circulated on WhatsApp concerning its Ngozi Mine Dumpsite Tour. I find the planned tour ridiculous. But my biggest issue is how daily we are bombarded with government institutions and officials hailing ED as a listening president who is leading the country for the people's benefit. So why are they refusing to listen to Bulawayo residents on the GeoPomona deal? Why do they want to impose this private company on us?

Now they are sending a probably state-sponsored and Zanu-affiliated national body of residents to do a tour in order to override the voices of Bulawayo residents. How can an organisation which claims to be a national body of residents associations not engage with our local resident associations to understand the Ngozi Mine crisis better and to hear what we want? They want to grandstand and probably paint a picture of GeoPomona as some saviour and push a narrative that Bulawayo City Council is failing. The Ngozi Mine crisis and every other crisis you see in our cities and towns is due to the failures of our central government. They create a terrible mess and then when they want to loot and profit through their private initiatives, they come as sheep carrying development tags and mantras that they want to clean and restore order in our cities.

Back to that fake national body, go through their Facebook page and you will see that this body has nothing concrete it will say. Actually, they even quoted the GeoPomona Waste Management post and you think they will have independent findings? They won't.

The Ngozi Mine Dumpsite is a crisis, we know that and we don't need a Harare based organisation to do a tour of the site to tell us what's going on. Siyakwazi. If they really really cared to fix the issue, follow the procedures as outlined in the Constitution and Urban Councils Act. Follow the Bulawayo City Council procedures. Our city cannot be held at ransom in order to fatten the pockets of a few individuals. Asivumi!!!!!

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WATCH | A video recorded on Friday at the corner of First Street and Robert Mugabe Avenue shows Local Government Permanent Secretary Tafadzwa Muguti ordering Harare Municipal Police officers to arrest an airtime vendor living with a disability. The vendor was taken to Harare Central Police Station and is expected to appear in court on Monday facing public nuisance charges.

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[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸Good day @nickmangwana,

When we say this Govt is anti-poor, this is exactly what we mean. If this was a functional country, this lady would be in decent retirement, enjoying a decent pension or have access to a social grant.

However, because public money is looted and spent on Gucci shoes, private jets and Rolls Royces, she’s on the street vending in order to try and make an honest living.

Daily, we see money spent on luxury cars and big cash donations to buy off the support of the rich and influential yet there is no money for the poor, vulnerable and aged.

Your declaration of war on the poor is disgusting and tells us everything we need to know about how selfish, insensitive and cold-hearted you political elites are. It’s a mess.

Stop attacking the poor.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

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[TheNewsHawks @NewsHawksLive]

This is Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube's department memo to city mayor David Coltart and councillors, recommending that they should comply with Local Government minister Daniel Garwe's directive to engage Geo Pomona Waste Management to deal with the municipality's waste management crisis centered on the burning Richmond Landfill site that has now become a public health emergency.
In the memo, dated September 14 (yesterday) and titled Ministerial Directive to engage Geo Pomona Waste Management (GPWM), the Town Clerk's department said council must comply with the minister's directive to engage Geo Pomona.
In addition, it must also grant management authority to talk to the Harare-based company and get feedback.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

I do not know why my colleagues at the Herald have been caught lying.

There was a meeting in which the Mayor of Bulawayo, David Coltart, pushed back against signing the agreement, insisting that Bulawayo City Council must follow proper procurement procedure. However, the Deputy Mayor of Bulawayo, Edwin Ndlovu, and other compromised councillors facing court cases were pushing for the council to pass a resolution confirming the demand by the Minister of Local Government, Garwe, that they were happy to sign the agreement. That is what happened.

The agreement was not signed or endorsed. So the claim that the agreement has been endorsed is a lie. The council said it would talk. It instructed management to go and hear what was on offer from the Pomona deal, rather than simply signing an agreement. The town clerk, once again, is in the pocket of the minister and is among those pushing for Bulawayo to sign.

When a company owned by the president's family is being forced onto cities through such agreements, that is downright corruption. The councillors facing corruption charges have been told that if they sign the agreement, their court cases will disappear. That is the fact of the matter, not the lie published in the Herald.

The Herald's version is designed to condition the public into believing that the Mayor of Bulawayo and the councillors have all agreed to sign, when that is simply not true.
The mayor refused, and so did some councillors. It is the town clerk who is pushing hardest, alongside the deputy mayor and the other councillors awaiting their court cases.

There is nothing wrong with a company owned by the president's family doing business. But such a company should not be forced onto a particular city, as happened in Harare, through a government resolution from a minister that strips residents of Bulawayo of their right to make a decision that actually serves their interests.

The Mayor of Bulawayo, according to other councillors who attended the meeting, said that procurement procedures must be followed and that the deal must go to tender.

Other companies must be allowed to bid, and the one offering the best deal for the city should win. That is the truth, and it is a truth that neither the Herald nor any councillor who sat in that meeting can deny.

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Hiking & Picnic at Bluebell Hill 🌿🥾

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From a dry summer landscape to the first signs of green again — nature is slowly coming back to life.

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If leaders are always speaking, but citizens are rarely heard, can we truly call that good governance?

Perhaps accountability begins with a simple question: Who is listening?

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A government can build roads, schools and hospitals.

But if citizens cannot question how decisions are made, development remains incomplete.

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Development is not measured by buildings alone. It is measured by how people’s lives improve.

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Good governance starts with listening. Communities deserve leaders who listen, act and remain accountable.

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[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸One of the things that pains me most about the Kariba Ferry disaster is that most of the people on the boat were travelling to rural Kariba, carrying goods for resale in their small businesses. A great number of them were women. Who doesn’t know that all too familiar story of a mother carrying a baby on her back with another in hand going off to buy and sell goods to feed her family? It’s unsurprising that it’s reported that one of the victims of the tragedy was recovered with a baby on her back.

This is a community that never asked for handouts or government grants. All they needed was a functional public transport system so that they could work and feed their families yet the Govt failed them.

They hate poor people.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[SHABZ @DerrickShabz]

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This is so sad

its a cycle that never comes to an end

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