‘We are now closer to a world class city’, says Harare Mayor after missing 2025 target
HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume says the capital now feels like any other international city with just its sewer system, water reticulation, roads and electricity now the only outstanding issues that have to be fixed. Town House, which promised a world class city by end of last year, failed to deliver on the promise. The capital […] The post ‘We are now closer to a world class city’, says Harare Mayor after missing 2025 target appeared first on NewZimbabwe.com.
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HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume says the capital now feels like any other international city with just its sewer system, water reticulation, roads and electricity now the only outstanding issues that have to be fixed.
Town House, which promised a world class city by end of last year, failed to deliver on the promise.
The capital still remains a dirty, crowded and dangerous place to be, where Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) traffic officers and municipal agents take turns to engage in speed chases with vendors and illegal commuter omnibus operators, most of the time to solicit bribes.
Speaking to NewZimbabwe.com, Mafume first explained that the 2025 promise was not his but one that was adopted from past mayors, which his council sought to implement and see come true.
“That was the vision of the then mayors in 2010 which we adopted but we have the DNA of a world class city,” said Mafume.
“We have a perfectly world class airport, perfectly world class road junctions being constructed, world class buildings like Joina City, a perfectly world class Parliament so what is left for us is to do the software.
“We have to have world class water delivery, world class electricity availability and world class road network.
“We are closer to being world class than we were 20 years ago and I feel that if you look at the cluster homes that are coming up, new shopping centres coming up the city is beginning to look and feel like any international city.”
Areas such as Madokero Mall, Highlands Park, Borrowdale Village Walk and Greenfields are a contrast to the filthy and poorly maintained high-density areas.
Whereas they are green, beautiful, filled with an air of modernity, the ghettos look forgotten, are still the hub of archaic diseases such as cholera and typhoid and do not look to be improving in any way.
Added Mafume: “We will panel beat on the areas that are lagging behind, but I am satisfied that we are in the right direction and that we are getting there sooner rather than later.”
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