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Harare City Council has been given the green light to enter into a street lights rehabilitation deal with Zambian company, Lamise Investments. Lamise will install solar lights in the Central Business District and selected streets in exchange for advertising rights. The street lights will first be installed along Julius Nyerere Way, Samora Machel Avenue between Rekayi Tangwena Avenue and Enterprise Roads, and Borrowdale Road. According to minutes of the joint business and environmental committee meeting chaired by deputy mayor Councillor Thomas Muzuva, town clerk Dr Tendai Mahachi gave a report on the deteriorating state of the city’s street lighting infrastructure.
“The town clerk further reported that in its quest to address the matter, the administration had taken the opportunity of an investor who had approached council and offered to install the solar street lights and the related materials at no cost to council,” reads part of the minutes.
“The investor had, however, requested to be issued with advertising rights to advertise on the erected solar street light poles in exchange for installation of street lights.”
The first phase covers installation of 400 solar street lights along the selected roads and 2 500 to be installed within three years. The installation will commence within 30 days from date of approval of the project by council. Dr Mahachi told councillors that the city would receive two percent of turnover from the advertising business from Lamise Investments.
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