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Mr Kapuya

Grace Nyoni Midlands Reporter
REDCLIFF Municipality has availed 4 000 residential stands to clear its housing backlog, which stands at about 6 000. In an interview, mayor Councillor Fred Kapuya said the residential stands had been given to private developers in Rutendo suburb.

“The stands are not serviced and the private developers will make sure that they provide roads, sewer and water system before people start building their houses,” he said.

Clr Kapuya said the new batch of stands was coming after the local authority recently ran out of residential stands to sell to potential house owners.

This was attributed to former employees of Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Ziscosteel) started receiving part of their outstanding salaries backdated to 2009 and bought all the residential stands that were being sold by the local authority. Clr Kapuya said they were expecting a further 200 residential stands soon after engaging private land developers.

“We had stands in Simbi Park, Renin, Rutendo and Grasslands, but all of them have been purchased. There has been a scramble for stands in the past month. We have since approached Pure Gold Property Developers for the development of new stands. So, we are expecting a further 200 stands to be availed soon,” he said.