By Rex Mphisa
BEITBRIDGE Municipality councillors have complained that they have waited for four months to get the Town Clerk’s report and this is affecting their work.
“This is now the fourth month that we have come to ask for the Town Clerk’s report and we are told he is not here and the report is not there. It means where is no progress in what we are doing,” Councillor Brenda Maworera said in a full council meeting on Wednesday.
She said the report would enable the councillors have informed deliberations of council services.
Maworera also said the policy makers have been waiting to get details on the number of open spaces the local authority had allocated to individuals and how many had been taken up and how much was being raised.
This, she said, would be contained in the Town Clerk’s report.
“We want to know how many open spaces have been allocated, how many have been taken up and how much we are raising so that we see how we can deliver services,” said Maworera.
Government in May 2025 imposed a “conditional moratorium” to stop the reckless allocation of infill housing stands in open spaces, wetlands, and recreational areas by local authorities and land barons.
In Beitbridge several infil stands have been allocated in unclear methods and commonage stands meant for civil servants and the low income brackets have not been accounted for.
Acting Town Clerk Sathulana Moyo deferred the topic to the next meeting saying there was little that meeting.