{"id":200264,"date":"2025-06-16T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-defaulters-owe-city-of-harare-over-u-s-18-million\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:25:00","slug":"zimbabwe-defaulters-owe-city-of-harare-over-u-s-18-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-defaulters-owe-city-of-harare-over-u-s-18-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Defaulters Owe City of Harare Over U.S.$18 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">CITY of Harare has launched a strict campaign against long-term tenants in council-owned properties, who have failed to pay rent and service charges, aiming to recoup more than ZiG$500 million (US$18.53 million) in outstanding debts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The operation will focus on Dzivarasekwa, the central business district (CBD), and nearby areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">According to officials, the unpaid bills&#8211;accumulated over five year, have severely disrupted essential services in the capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Council&#8217;s first move will be to cut off&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506160291.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>CITY of Harare has launched a strict campaign against long-term tenants in council-owned properties, who have failed to pay rent and service charges, aiming to recoup more than ZiG$500 million (US$18.53 million) in outstanding debts. The operation will focus on Dzivarasekwa, the central business district (CBD), and nearby areas. According to officials, the unpaid bills&#8211;accumulated [&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":[258,256,6603,22971,500,5118,257,13817,254,51639,4686,421],"class_list":["post-200264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-city","tag-defaulters","tag-harare","tag-million","tag-news","tag-owe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-18","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200264","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=200264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200264\/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=200264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}