So the Harare municipal police has come up with a new idea to catch errant taxi drivers. A trick they have up their sleeves is one in which a pregnant woman approaches a taxi that is ranked in an undesignated area. She asks to be taken to the nearest hospital. He lets her in. She [...]
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Harare Municipal Police Using Pregnant Women To Entrap Taxis
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on February 28th, 2013
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2 Comments »ZESA Blamed For Disruption Of Water Supplies
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on August 11th, 2012
The Harare City Council has blamed the disruption of water supplies on Thursday and Friday in parts of the city on the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority. The Herald says a power cut forced the city to shut down the Morton Jaffray because the Warren Control Pump Station which receives water from the former was affected. Some [...]
Harare Water Poison Saga: Driver Arrested
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on August 8th, 2012
The driver at the centre of the Harare water poisoning case which gripped the city last week was arrested over the weekend. State media reports that Simon Demhe was charged with contravening provisions of the Water Act and the Environmental Management Act. Demhe left Beira with 19 tonnes of sodium cyanide instead a water purification chemicals which [...]
Posted in Technology Tags: Harare City Council, Harare water, Harare water poisoning, Simon Demhe No Comments »Goodbye Enterprise Road; Hello General Solomon Mujuru Road
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on August 4th, 2012
The Harare City Council has resolved to name a major road after the late General Solomon Mujuru. A decision was taken to name Enterprise Road after the General Mujuru. Rotten Row will changed to Chief Justice Enoch Dumbutshena and Churchill Road will be renamed Professor Walter Kamba Road. The renaming of Enterprise Road is subject to [...]
Harare Water Poisoning Saga: Man Arrested
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on August 3rd, 2012
A manager with a local company has been arrested in the ongoing Harare water poisoning saga. The man is expected to appear in court today and charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Farai Muchenje, a logistics manager with Pair Trade Investments, is now ‘assisting police with investigations’. The police say everyone involved in the boob will [...]
Cops Investigating Harare Water Poisoning Case
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on August 1st, 2012
The police have opened a docket which they have sent to the Attorney General’s office following last week’s incident in which Harare’s water was almost poisoned. The AG’s office is currently trying to figure out what to charge ‘the many people’ linked to the blunder. 19 tonnes of sodium cyanide almost made it into Harare’s [...]
The Day All Of Harare Almost Died From Poisoning
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on July 31st, 2012
So the big headline in the government rag The Herald today says about 19 tonnes of poison was almost deposited into our water system for purification. The story is that someone mixed up an order and was going to deliver sodium cyanide instead of liquid aluminum sulphate for water treatment, on Wednesday. The driver of the truck picked [...]
Posted in Featured, Technology Tags: Harare City Council, Harare water, Harare water cyanide, Harare water poison 3 Comments »Harare City Council Kicks Celebration Church Out Of Premises
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on July 7th, 2012
Celebration Church is in a bit of a pickle after the Harare City Council kicked them out for occupying land illegaly. The premises in question are in Marlborough and displace the Celebration Westgate congregation of the church. The council says that the area is reserved for a public primary school. The councillor for ward 41, Charity [...]
Harare Man Wins City Compensation
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on May 8th, 2012
A Harare Man is set to receive compensation from the City Council after the local authority was found liable for burns he sustained from electricity cables left exposed during routine maintenance. Milton Mundembe will receive US$3,448 and the employees concerned are to be punished. We hope this will be a landmark case given the number of [...]
Rowan Martin Closed Due To Water Issues
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on February 24th, 2012
So Rowan Martin, the place where you go and pay the City of Harare for water was closed yesterday for health reasons after it had gone for five days without water. That means if you had your water cut off on Wednesday and you wanted to pay on Thursday, well, you wouldn’t be able to [...]
Mereki Shut Down
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on January 31st, 2012
The Harare City Council has shut down Mereki, citing control of the typhoid outbreak in the city, Newsday reports. The awful thing, we think is that suddenly you have loads of people overnight going out of business. It is estimated that 300 people make a living from the Warren Park spot. There is much made [...]
Harare City Council: What happened to zoning laws?
Posted by Three Men On a Boat on January 18th, 2011
So the Harare City Council has often come for some serious criticism for what some might call questionable behaviour on the part of its lot. Well let’s give them some credit for effort even though there are a bunch of their lot who are about as competent as a general hand at a MENSA convention. [...]
