Councils fail to meet performance targets

📅 Published: August 19, 2025

📰 Source: zimbabwesituation

Curated by AllZimNews.com

Addressing mayors and town clerks in Harare last Friday at the 2024 performance outcomes review, Local Government and Public Works minister Daniel Garwe called on the city fathers to work on cleaning their cities.

The call comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa reportedly complained of the grimy Mbare during the Defence Forces commemorations at Rufaro Stadium on Wednesday last week. “It is a concerning percentage of what happened in the past couple of years.

This data sets a wake-up call for all of us.

The local authorities on one hand and the Ministry of Local Government on the other,” Garwe said. appointing authority.

We are all accountable to the President of the country in our various workstations.

So we must be able to find each other.

We must be able to find each other. ” He said Mnangagwa directed him to ensure local authorities dealt with the issue of littering. “With the resources that we have with the municipal police, we should be able to enforce our by-laws and make sure that people clean wherever they are operating from,” Garwe said. “We have got councillors belonging to government.

We are all government employees.

We are all accountable to central government. “We are all accountable to the State.

So we leave behind us.

The moment we are sworn into office, we must leave behind us the political culture, the electioneering culture.

We must leave it behind us. “Right now, there are no elections.