{"id":196086,"date":"2025-04-15T11:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-ratepayers-to-pay-for-councils-wrongful-building-approval\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:10:38","slug":"zimbabwe-harare-ratepayers-to-pay-for-councils-wrongful-building-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-ratepayers-to-pay-for-councils-wrongful-building-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Harare Ratepayers to Pay for Council&#8217;s Wrongful Building Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Harare residents will be responsible for covering compensation costs owed to the owner of a double-storey building along Alpes Road in Vainona suburb, which is set for demolition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">This follows the unlawful approval of the structure by council officials despite the fact that it infringes on the frontage line and extends onto Alpes Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Herald has reported that council officials have been secretly selling off land designated for vital public use, such as roads, schools, hospitals and wetlands&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504150069.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 residents will be responsible for covering compensation costs owed to the owner of a double-storey building along Alpes Road in Vainona suburb, which is set for demolition. This follows the unlawful approval of the structure by council officials despite the fact that it infringes on the frontage line and extends onto Alpes Road. The [&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":[258,256,8113,6797,10536,500,257,9105,51127,254,43224,4686,421],"class_list":["post-196086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approval","tag-building","tag-councils","tag-harare","tag-news","tag-pay","tag-ratepayers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wrongful","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196086","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=196086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196086\/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=196086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}