{"id":190940,"date":"2025-02-09T05:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mafume-apologises-to-harare-residents\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T05:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:45:26","slug":"zimbabwe-mafume-apologises-to-harare-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mafume-apologises-to-harare-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mafume Apologises to Harare Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Harare Mayor Councillor Jacob Mafume has apologised to ratepayers for poor service delivery, admitting to unlawfully awarding himself mayoral perks at the expense of the city&#8217;s needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Clr Mafume made the plea after he was cornered by the Retired Justice Maphios Cheda-led Commission on why he was continuing to get huge perks, such as a house and vehicles when the city was struggling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The apology comes after it emerged that Clr Mafume got a house at Number 9 Drummond Chaplin Road in Milton Park as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502070067.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 Councillor Jacob Mafume has apologised to ratepayers for poor service delivery, admitting to unlawfully awarding himself mayoral perks at the expense of the city&#8217;s needs. Clr Mafume made the plea after he was cornered by the Retired Justice Maphios Cheda-led Commission on why he was continuing to get huge perks, such as a [&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":[258,256,16269,500,36809,257,4288,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-190940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apologises","tag-harare","tag-mafume","tag-news","tag-residents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190940","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=190940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190940\/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=190940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}