‘Councillors are government employees once elected into office, they do not belong to political parties’—Garwe

📅 Published: August 17, 2025

📰 Source: newzimbabwe

Curated by AllZimNews.com

We are all accountable to the President of the Republic in our various workstations. “So, we must be able to find each other.

I told the Mayor of Bulawayo (David Coltart) last week that we have come here not to fight, but to build bridges,” Garwe said.

He revealed that some people were expecting fights in their minds, which was not the mission. “So, we said there are some ways to build bridges.

All these cities, the 32 urban councils, are all ours. “The 60 rural councils are all ours.

There is no person who exists in this kind that doesn’t belong to a vote.

So, this is how important local authorities are to everybody. “We do not want to be focusing on fault finding.

We want to be focusing on correcting the areas where we are not doing well.

We should be able to be corrected as well,” he told the officials.

Results for the local authorities performance released showed that most of them had failed to reach their targets for the year. “Let us take responsibility whenever there is something that we have done correctly.

There is no one under the sun who does not make a mistake, nobody. “All of us make mistakes, but the ability to be able to sit down and diagnose the problem and provide the cure is what makes us different from the rest of the people. ” Garwe urged the local authorities’ bosses to tackle challenges without looking at which party one belonged to. “We must attend ourselves into challenges.

In here, we do not have councillors belonging to political parties.

We have councillors belonging to government. “We are all accountable to government, we are all accountable to this existence.