{"id":182001,"date":"2024-10-07T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T22:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-rural-councils-performing-better-than-us-harare-mayor-mafume-berates-fellow-councillors-over-failed-solar-project\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T00:01:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T22:01:45","slug":"zimbabwe-rural-councils-performing-better-than-us-harare-mayor-mafume-berates-fellow-councillors-over-failed-solar-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-rural-councils-performing-better-than-us-harare-mayor-mafume-berates-fellow-councillors-over-failed-solar-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Rural Councils Performing Better Than Us &#8211; Harare Mayor Mafume Berates Fellow Councillors Over Failed Solar &#8216;Project&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume this week berated his fellow councillors for failing to come up with a green energy plan, which would have brought the capital one step closer to its residents using solar power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Speaking at a Full Council meeting held this week, Mafume bemoaned how rural councils were performing better than Harare in that regard despite its financial capacity, and potential as compared to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Mafume blamed the council&#8217;s Business Committee for the failure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;I am upset because I told&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410040029.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume this week berated his fellow councillors for failing to come up with a green energy plan, which would have brought the capital one step closer to its residents using solar power. Speaking at a Full Council meeting held this week, Mafume bemoaned how rural councils were performing better than Harare in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,10944,16082,10536,9281,32826,500,36809,7625,257,16544,6504,6309,4631,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-182001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-berates","tag-councillors","tag-councils","tag-failed","tag-fellow","tag-harare","tag-mafume","tag-mayor","tag-news","tag-performing","tag-project","tag-rural","tag-solar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}