{"id":187050,"date":"2024-12-22T01:42:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T23:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-high-court-orders-harare-city-council-to-immediately-refurbish-mbare-flats-in-landmark-ruling\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T01:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T23:42:43","slug":"zimbabwe-high-court-orders-harare-city-council-to-immediately-refurbish-mbare-flats-in-landmark-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-high-court-orders-harare-city-council-to-immediately-refurbish-mbare-flats-in-landmark-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: High Court Orders Harare City Council to Immediately Refurbish Mbare Flats in Landmark Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The High Court has ordered the City of Harare and the government to refurbish Mbare flats with immediate effect to restore dignity to residents who have lived under &#8220;squalid and intolerable conditions&#8221; for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The landmark ruling follows an application by residents who told the court that the responsible authorities had long forgotten their mandate and should be compelled to do their work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">High Court judge Justice Priscilla Munangati-Manongwa ruled in favour of the residents and ordered the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412200010.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>The High Court has ordered the City of Harare and the government to refurbish Mbare flats with immediate effect to restore dignity to residents who have lived under &#8220;squalid and intolerable conditions&#8221; for years. The landmark ruling follows an application by residents who told the court that the responsible authorities had long forgotten their mandate [&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":[258,256,6603,6158,6185,21132,500,6184,9836,12583,27609,257,6186,27975,7870,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-187050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-city","tag-council","tag-court","tag-flats","tag-harare","tag-high","tag-immediately","tag-landmark","tag-mbare","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-refurbish","tag-ruling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187050","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=187050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187050\/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=187050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}