Published: 13 March 2014

The National Social Security Authority is racing against time in its bid to regularise the Rainbow Tourism Group Beitbridge hotel by next Friday, a deadline by which its temporary permit expires.

The hotel faces closure by Beitbridge Town Council after the authority failed to secure an agreement with the architect who is holding on to architectural drawings that would enable the local authority issue them with a certificate of occupation.

NSSA got a temporary permit from Beitbridge Town Council of three months, which is due to expire on March 21 2014, but the two parties have not reached a settlement, creating uncertainty on the future of the hotel.

Architect Daniel Mandishona has refused to surrender architectural designs to NSSA after the pension fund terminated his contract.

The dispute between the two is now before an arbitrator who is yet to determine whether there was a breach of contract by NSSA.
- herald

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