Harare council on warpath

HARARE City Council has accused local residents’ associations of “singing loud for their supper” by unnecessarily criticising the local authority.

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In apparent reference to the Harare Residents’ Trust (HRT) whose members besieged Town House last week demanding cancellation of all ratepayers’ debts accrued between 2009 and 2010 and the ouster of Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda, Councillor Herbert Gomba accused the activists of being mercenaries.

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