Harare City Council evicting tenants who are not paying rents

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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