Harare City Council spokesperson Michael Chideme said that they are evicting all tenants occupying council properties who are not paying rentals.
Said Chideme:
As council, our policy is very simple: When you use any of our properties one has to pay and when you don’t, as a policy, we are evicting.
Minutes of the council’s audit committee seen by NewsDay indicated that most council properties are in a state of dilapidation as people occupying them were not paying rental fees. Council says it has lost over $30 million due to poor management of its estate department as a number of occupants are not paying rentals.
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