How you can avoid clamping as COH parking enforcem...

How you can avoid clamping as COH parking enforcement operation starts today

City of Harare is starting effective enforcement of parking laws today in an operation aimed at ensuring smooth traffic flow in the CBD.

“We are going to embark on a joint operation involving all enforcement arms of the city like development control, district administrators, city environmental health officers and waste management,” Harare City Council acting chamber secretary Mr Warren Chiwawa said.

“City of Harare has mandated City Parking (PVT) Ltd to enforce parking and traffic by-laws within Harare effective 16 February 2023,” City Parking public relations manager Mr Francis Mandaza said.

“The mandate includes clamping, fine ticketing and fine collection on parking and traffic offences. The move is expected to increase compliance and convenience to the motoring public as fines shall be payable to our staff on the street,” Mandaza said.

“Please note whilst City Parking enforces on offences committed in parking bays, it shall work jointly with City of Harare traffic enforcement in and around Harare city centre. As a reminder, some offences that warrant clamping and fining include failure to display a valid parking ticket, continued parking on an expired ticket, parking over lines of parking bays, obstruction of parking or traffic, washing a motor vehicle in a parking place and failure to display vehicle licence, among others.”

“We urge motorists to make use of our Whatsapp bot or USSD platform for convenient self-service parking. Please pay for parking to avoid inconveniences associated with clamping,” he said.