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    Bulawayo runs out of money

    The municipality, one of Zimbabwe's second city's largest employers, has not paid its employees since December - and that means less money is in circulation, and fewer purchases from retailers.
    With the collapse of services, urban residents dump garbage at undesignated places. (Image: ff/IRIN)
    With the collapse of services, urban residents dump garbage at undesignated places. (Image: ff/IRIN)

    Service delivery has collapsed in Zimbabwe's second largest city, Bulawayo, after local authorities recently announced that the municipality was insolvent and unable to cater to the needs of its almost two million residents. The council could not pay salaries in January and employees have been on a go-slow since then.

    Refuse collection and maintenance have come to a halt: repairs to potholes and burst sewers have been affected, as has the procurement of medicines for council clinics.

    The situation has been compounded by the central government's failure to approve the council's supplementary budget since September 2007, and local authorities cannot increase tariffs without this approval.

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