{"id":189490,"date":"2025-01-24T04:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T02:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-city-bigwigs-pocket-u-s-9k-holiday-allowance\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T04:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T02:35:17","slug":"zimbabwe-city-bigwigs-pocket-u-s-9k-holiday-allowance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-city-bigwigs-pocket-u-s-9k-holiday-allowance\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: City Bigwigs Pocket U.S.$9k Holiday Allowance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Senior officials of cash-strapped Harare City Council are reportedly each pocketing holiday allowances totalling US$9 000 a year while the council struggles to provide services to residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">This came to light yesterday when Mr Matthew Marara, the City&#8217;s assistant director to the town clerk, appeared before the commission investigating Harare City Council and disclosed that he had received over US$27 000 in holiday allowances alone for the 30-months he was on suspension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In May last year,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501230733.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>Senior officials of cash-strapped Harare City Council are reportedly each pocketing holiday allowances totalling US$9 000 a year while the council struggles to provide services to residents. This came to light yesterday when Mr Matthew Marara, the City&#8217;s assistant director to the town clerk, appeared before the commission investigating Harare City Council and disclosed that [&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":[258,256,13087,8885,6603,5268,257,9957,254,50463,4686,421],"class_list":["post-189490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allowance","tag-bigwigs","tag-city","tag-holiday","tag-news","tag-pocket","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-9k","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189490","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=189490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189490\/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=189490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}