APPEAL BY HARARE MAYOR CLLR MUSARURWA MUTIZWA FOR BEAUTIFICATION AND GARBAGE COLLECTION INTERVENTIONS FOR THE CITY.
We are making a passionate appeal to corporates and individuals to come on board and assist the city deal with the issue of uncollected garbage and help us to maintain continuity. Our appeal also extends to the beautification programme.
Garbage is everyone’s child hence we need to put our heads together to tackle what is slowly becoming a bad spot on the Sunshine image of our City. We can blame each other but that will not resolve the matter. However, all customers need to play their part — with residents and corporates paying their bills.
Failure to pay over the years has gotten us to where were are today. Council is owed over ZWL$7.8 billion — which if paid today would go a long way in addressing the sticking service delivery issues.
We have a wish list that we want assistance with. We are currently operating with 20 per cent of our garbage collection fleet. While we work on increasing our fleet availability to 75 per cent within the next 30 days, we appeal to individuals and corporates to assist us in the interim to implement the following strategies:
1. Assistance to carry out a blitz to remove illegal dumps through the provision of pieces of equipment such as trucks, dumpers, front end loaders, dozers, tractors mounted with trailers and compactors etc.
2. Reviving our broken-down equipment. Currently, we have 8/50 compactors, 3/9 skip trucks, 0/5 tipper trucks, 1/2 front end loaders, 0/2 dozers, 0/1 landfill compactor, 0/2 mechanical sweepers, 0/1 skid steer and 0/2 tractors.
We would like to ask those with the means to either repair or provide spares or to approach the Mayor for a list of the broken-down equipment and the required spares to revive the equipment.
In this regard, we also would like to ask communities with the capacity to come forward and adopt compactors and other equipment for repair and maintenance and use the same in their areas in the spirit of decentralisation.
3. Assistance in implementing programmes to recycle and reuse waste at source or community-based initiatives.
This is not based on corporate goodwill but corporate social responsibility to ensure that they take their products from the cradle to the grave.
In other words, it is their responsibility to ensure that they minimise the environmental impact caused by their products, according to the above principle.
Our appeal would be to get this equipment running in the shortest possible period.
Therefore, we would like to ask those with the means to either repair or provide spares or to approach the Mayor for a list of the broken-down equipment and the required spares to revive the equipment.
In this regard, we also would like to ask communities with the capacity to come forward and adopt compactors and other equipment for repair and maintenance and use the same in their areas in the spirit of decentralisation.
Linked to effective garbage collection is the City beautification programme. Individuals and corporates have a big role to play starting with the frontage of our properties or businesses.
Our bylaws give authority to owners of buildings to maintain their frontage by also ensuring there are garbage receptacles, greening the frontage and installing adequate lighting.
Companies and individuals are encouraged to adopt pieces of land in the city specifically for beautification purposes.
Terms and conditions can be discussed with our parks and cemeteries division under the Department of Housing.
For grass cutting, we require the following: 15 tractors, one trailer and 80 brush cutters to operate effectively.
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HCC you’ve raised rates massively in the last six months but you still can’t do the job we pay you for!
Engage the ZRP for political clearance first before appealing for assistance from ratepayers/residents, this comment has been coined with recent arrest of a certain Ngwerume in mind.