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Message: [QUOTE="Shamiso, post: 84258, member: 160"] City Hall is crying broke while trash piles up and wallets stay shut. The Harare City Council claims operations are choking because ratepayers are ghosting an eight billion ZiG debt. Mayor Jacob Mafume insists services are tanking because locals refuse to clear balances, with residents holding eighty percent of that heavy bag. He warned that this financial drought makes the city unlivable. Town House launched a promo giving a twenty percent discount to anyone clearing tabs during the upcoming amnesty window. Mafume says this limited opportunity helps citizens avoid harsher collection methods later. Those paying with foreign currency or sending cash from the diaspora get extra perks. A recent crackdown on commercial sectors apparently already yielded some solid cash flow. Officials finally installed an enterprise resource planning system costing up to half a million American dollars annually to plug leaks. Previous setups were a disaster where one thousand unauthorized people could create accounts and loot funds. Mafume blasted this loose security, noting that super users manipulated loopholes to steal millions while services collapsed around them. Police are hunting the individuals who tampered with the finances. The mayor promised to fix controls against theft to focus spending on housing or investments instead. While the municipality struggles to clean house, outsiders argue that central government interference and incompetent appointees are actually what keep the capital functioning like a complete mess. [/QUOTE]

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