Kwekwe City Council has introduced a road levy as it seeks to repair the city’s poor road network.
As reported by the Chronicle, during a recent full council meeting, the councillors passed a resolution to introduce the road levy starting with the business and companies sector.
Although details of how the levy will be deducted and the percentage thereof, the council said it will be effective by the end of the month.
The chairperson of the works committee, Councillor Pikurai Msipa said their department was underfunded. He said:
We do not have enough equipment and resources for us to be able to repair our roads. The roads are in a bad state but we cannot repair them.
We don’t have a grader, the one we have is very old and is often broken down.
The road levy we receive is insignificant so a road levy would go a long way in assisting us.
Various local authorities are coming up with various unpopular strategies to raise revenue to replenish their empty coffers.
For instance, the City of Gweru has introduced overnight clamping where motorists found wrongly parked are made to pay US$85.
