The governing council of Harare consists of the following: a mayor, deputy mayor, 46 elected councilors, and 12 appointed councilors. Skip to content First Street, Harare, Zimbabwe, Do you find this information helpful?
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About The Harare City Council is an administrative body tasked with providing services for residence of Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe. Our core business is to promote tourism in Harare and its environs and to provide information on investment opportunities. The government's land reform program which began in was characterized by chaos and violence and badly damaged the commercial farming sector, the traditional source of exports and foreign exchange and the provider of , jobs and crippled the economy ushering in widespread shortages of basic commodities turning Zimbabwe into a net importer of food products.
In the elected Harare council was replaced by a government-appointed commission for alleged inefficiency as essential services such as rubbish collection and street repairs had rapidly worsened until they became virtually non-existent.
The water reticulation and sewage systems virtually collapsed. In May the Zimbabwean newspaper the Financial Gazette , described the city in an editorial as a "sunshine city-turned-sewage farm". In May , the Zimbabwean government demolished shanties and backyard cottages of , mostly poor supporters of the opposition in Harare and other cities in the country in Operation Murambatsvina "drive out trash. The government claimed it was necessitated by a rise of criminality and disease.
In June the Government instituted price controls on all basic commodities causing panic buying and leaving store shelves empty for months. The continuing political and economic crisis plaguing Zimbabwe has had an ongoing harmful effect on Harare. The government of Zimbabwe in struggling with an unsustainable fiscal deficit resorted to printing money that resulted in an overvalued official exchange rate and hyperinflation.
Official annual inflation rates rose from 32 percent in , to percent in , percent in , passed 1, percent in , and 26, percent in November Badly needed support from the International Monetary Fund had been suspended because of the government's arrears on past loans and the government's unwillingness to enact reforms that would stabilize the economy. The European Union and the United States provide food aid and funds for the health services and education on humanitarian grounds.
Harare remains the capital and the largest city of Zimbabwe. Situated in the north-east of the country in the heart of historic Mashonaland, the city has an estimated population of 1. Administratively Harare is a metropolitan province, which incorporates Chitungwiza town and Epworth and is Zimbabwe's administrative, commercial, manufacturing, communications, and educational centre, and serves as a distribution point for the surrounding agricultural and gold-mining areas and is the trade centre for tobacco, maize, cotton and citrus fruits.
Manufactures include textiles, steel, and chemicals. Factories produce processed food, beverages, clothing, cigarettes, building materials, and plastics. A modern, well-planned city with multi-storied buildings and tree-lined avenues, numerous suburbs surround the city, retaining the same names colonial administrators gave them during the nineteenth century, such as Warren Park, Borrowdale, Mount Pleasant, Mabvuku, Greendale, Marlborough, Tynwald, and Avondale.
Basic services such as water and sewage systems, potholes and traffic lights remain an issue but gradually the city council seems to be tackling these issues although it is hindered by the general economic malaise brought about by high unemployment, weak demand, structural issues linked to low commodity prices and poor investment funding and a huge current account deficit.
This situation is caused by a lack of productive and proactive policy reforms from government as politicians continue to fiddle as the Zimbabwe economy shrinks. The University of Zimbabwe, the country's oldest university founded in is situated in Mount Pleasant, about 6 kilometres north of the city centre and Harare is home to the country's main Test cricket ground at Harare Sports Club, and to Dynamos Football Club, the most successful association football team.
The city has much to offer her visitors. First of all, a city tour would be recommended in order to get orientated. All sorts of goods are on offer, but the international visitor will most probably be mainly interested in the many stands selling stone sculptures and other crafts.
The city has been the location of several international summits such as the 8th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in and Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in which produced the Harare Declaration, dictating the membership criteria of the Commonwealth. In , Harare hosted most of the 6th All-Africa Games , sharing the event with other Zimbabwean cities such as Bulawayo and Chitungwiza.
It hosted some of the matches of Cricket World Cup which was hosted jointly by Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe with several of the matches held in Bulawayo. Harare International Airport is simple but modern. The ZIMRA staff is professional, but welcoming; there is no tension and no insults or power games, no thumbing of your passport and finger printing and photographing as at other African and Asian airports.
The Transport section of the guide contains detailed information of the airlines flying to Harare International Airport. The public transport system within the city includes both public and private sector operations. The public transport system of buses, run by ZUPCO still exist but have largely been replaced by privately owned commuter kombis and minibuses which are more flexible stopping wherever it is convenient for the commuter.
The capital and most popular city in Zimbabwe, Harare, was founded on September 12, According to history , the city was previously known as Harawa during pre-colonial times and was ruled by a Shona Chief by name Neharawa. The city was however founded on the aforementioned date by a volunteer military settler force from South Africa known as The Pioneer Column. Keep in mind that the city was founded during the colonial era. How Zimbabwe celebrated its independence in with a memorable Bob Marley concert [Video].
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