Our local authorities in Zimbabwe will only progress when the Councillors become real and move away from their partisan positions. For now it is about one's political party interests and personal benefit.

Will you the opposition and the ruling party a result that goes against them in the 2023 harmonised elections? I recall in 2013, there was kuchema chema after the announcement of the results. There was devastation in society!

Rufaro Stadium is now gone to Sakunda Holdings on a long lease. City of Harare is losing its valuable assets..

July Moyo fights against the City of Harare, by extension against the residents of Harare.

The Trinity. God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

The water crisis in Harare is solely a government led problem.

Councillors should be elected from among residents with their own properties or businesses to run. Why should ratepayers fund the lifestyles of job seeking politicians? We have asked the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works to put together comprehensive criteria fr cllrs

Devolution is in the Constitution of Zimbabwe but it may never be implemented as long as Zanu PF is the ruling party. The ruling party prefers a deconcentrated governance system where they are at the local, provincial and national government levels.

When the people are free, they express themselves without worrying much about what happens after they have said what is in their hearts and minds. Only in dictatorships are the people frightened to express themselves.

I have been following the National Democratic Working Group, a coalition of diverse citizens drawn from labour, students, women, vendors and businesspeople. They are showing a promise of a real movement building. If they remain focused, they may become a huge political force.

Devolution means that governmental powers and authority has been transferred to semi- autonomous lower tiers of government where critical political, administrative and fiscal decisions can be made with very minimal interference of the national government.

The 2013 Constitution has a Chapter devoted to the provincial and local government tiers of government. It places emphasis on the devolution of governmental powers and responsibilities. The Constitution of Zimbabwe has been amended twice since 2013.

The City of Harare and most other urban local authorities are under siege. The government is determined to strip all the urban local authorities of any fiscal, administrative and political powers to make their own decisions in terms of the constitution. Devolution is under attack

Staying focused as a leader is a huge responsibility.

Service delivery in Harare has collapsed. There is no refuse collection. Water shortages are a daily occurrence. Street lighting is non-existent in most suburbs.

The death of Geoff Nyarota, a seasoned investigative journalist, reminds us that to be a successful journalist, one has to sacrifice and focus on the bigger picture of social accountability in the public interest. Geoff Nyarota, Nyati, was a man who stood firm to his beliefs!!!

Local authorities in Zimbabwe will never achieve their visions as long as there is no devolution of governmental powers and responsibilities to lower tiers of government. As it stands, the government is recentralising and taking away key functions of local authorities.

The Government of Zimbabwe is the one crippling Local Authorities through Ministerial Directives and Guidelines by the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works, as well as through the Office of the President and Cabinet. This offends constitutional provisions on devolution!