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Sikhumbuzo Moyo [email protected]

BULAWAYO City Council’s yet-to-be-approved 2025 budget is now a nullity after an all-stakeholders committee, whose mandate is to come up with a new budget based on the 2017 tariffs was set up today.

BCC stakeholders meeting on exorbitant tariffs

The new committee was set up during a meeting held at the council chambers between the local authority, representatives of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC), the two major residents associations and was chaired by the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works’ director of local authorities inspectorate Ms Priscillar Mudzinge.
It is composed of captains of industry, residents associations, tourism players and tertiary institutions and was given a one-week timeline up to December 20 to come up with a revised budget before presenting it on January 7 next year.

BCC has been under siege from rate payers who accused the local authority of using an incorrect formula indexing the 2022 and 2023 tariffs to the United States dollar that resulted in exorbitant tariffs.