Harare Water privatised

Abigail Mawonde Herald Correspondent
Harare City Council has transformed its water department into a private company, The Herald can reveal.

The company has since been registered as Harare City Water Corporation Private Limited.

According to minutes of the Human Resources and General Purposes Committee meeting, the city intends to turn the department into a utility.

The department is expected to ultimately become a Metro Utility incorporating Harare and all satellite towns like Chitungwiza, Norton, Ruwa and Epworth.

“The committee now considered a confidential report (11th June, 2015) by the human capital and public service director noting that Harare City Water Corporation (Pvt) Ltd is already a registered company, approval of the proposed organisational structure for Harare City Water Corporation (Pvt) Ltd and noting that all outstanding human resources issues of the Department of Harare Water would be attended to,” reads the minutes.

The human capital and public service director took the committee through his report providing the background to the registration of the Department of Harare Water as a private company.

The committee said ministers of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing and Environment, Water and Climate would announce board members of the utility in due course.

During the meeting, the committee was taken through the Harare Water Corporation (Pvt) Ltd top structure and organisational structures for lower level employees.