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Byo ups tariffs 50%
The Zimbabwe Independent
July 22, 2005

http://www.theindependent.co.zw/news/2005/July/Friday22/2838.html

THE Bulawayo city council has increased tariffs for high and low density suburbs by 50%, bringing the total percentage increases for 2005 to 200%, the Zimbabwe Independent has learnt.

However, the city mayor Japhet Ndabeni Ncube said the increment was just "a hold on budget for survival".

Ncube also said the Bulawayo council would try to match services with the tariff increments.

"The increments are just peanuts," said Ncube. "It is a hold - on budget for survival. We will continue to try and balance our services so as to provide better services."

Bulawayo Residents Association (Bura) chairman Winos Dube said his association had accepted the tariff increases in the hope that the local authority would improve service delivery.

He said the association was content with the increment since initially the city council wanted to increase tariffs by a total of 250% for the year.

"We expect an improvement in services, we expect to see a change," said Dube. "Initially the city council was supposed to have raised tariffs by 250% for the year. An increase of 200% is OK because it is below what they had proposed earlier."

"I am sure people will have problems as they are always overstretched but they will have to take it as there is no other way."

The council is still owed over $100 billion by government and residents. - Staff Writer.

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