{"id":196233,"date":"2025-04-17T11:15:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T09:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-residents-call-for-probe-into-approval-of-illegal-vainona-building-say-they-will-not-bear-costs-for-councils-gross-incompetence\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T09:15:23","slug":"zimbabwe-harare-residents-call-for-probe-into-approval-of-illegal-vainona-building-say-they-will-not-bear-costs-for-councils-gross-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-residents-call-for-probe-into-approval-of-illegal-vainona-building-say-they-will-not-bear-costs-for-councils-gross-incompetence\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Harare Residents Call for Probe Into Approval of Illegal Vainona Building &#8211; Say They Will Not Bear Costs for Council&#8217;s Gross Incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Harare residents have called for heads to roll at the City Council following revelations that senior officials corruptly approved the construction of a double-storey building in Vainona despite glaring irregularities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The double-storey building, situated at the corner of Alpes and Grant roads, is one of many construction projects that the City of Harare improperly approved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The building, which is nearing completion, is set for demolition after it emerged at the Commission of Inquiry probing the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504170083.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 have called for heads to roll at the City Council following revelations that senior officials corruptly approved the construction of a double-storey building in Vainona despite glaring irregularities. The double-storey building, situated at the corner of Alpes and Grant roads, is one of many construction projects that the City of Harare improperly approved. [&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":[258,256,8113,9045,6797,6880,11509,10536,26309,500,6918,11625,257,5805,4288,254,51147,4686,421],"class_list":["post-196233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approval","tag-bear","tag-building","tag-call","tag-costs","tag-councils","tag-gross","tag-harare","tag-illegal","tag-incompetence","tag-news","tag-probe","tag-residents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vainona","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196233","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=196233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196233\/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=196233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}