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At the cornerstone of government policy is the understanding that local government is concerned with local democracy and the decentralisation of designated powers and responsibilities from central government to lower tier structures. It has therefore been seen fit to establish sub-national institutions in the form of Urban and Rural District Councils in the urban and rural areas respectively which are nearer to the people and therefore can more speedily attend to the challenges and developmental issues peculiar to their areas of jurisdiction. In a bid to ensure maximum participation in decision making and overall development in the rural areas, the government has gone further to establish ward and village assemblies which uphold the role of traditional leadership.The system of local government in Zimbabwe provides a sound arrangement within which local people fulfil and exercise their democratic rights. Secondly, as development is a collaborative endeavour, the local government appr

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