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ZINWA resolutions
Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA)
June 13, 2007

Please find below the statement of resolutions on ZINWA by residents associations of Zimbabwe when they met in Masvingo a week ago. This statement was today distributed to the Parliament of Zimbabwe, ZINWA Chairperson, Secretary to Mugabe's Cabinet, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Minister Ignatius Morgan Chiminya Chombo of Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development, Munacho Mutezo, the Minister of Water and Infrastructural Development, Parliamentary Portfolio Committees on Local Government, Legal, Finance and water Resources.

CHRA is pushing the matter to be discussed at all government fora, particularly for Parliament to note the continued flagrant disregard of the rule of law and Parliamentary Recommendations by the Executive.

Statement of resolutions made by the Residents' National Convention on the takeover of sewer and water reticulation from the urban local authorities by ZINWA, Masvingo, Flamboyant Hotel 30 May - 03 June 2007

Preamble

The National Residents Convention is a platform bringing together Residents Associations from the Urban and Rural settings to deliberate and come-up with common way forward on common issues of concern.

The National Residents Convention in Masvingo, Flamboyant Hotel, 30 May to 03 June 2007 brought together nineteen (19) Residents Associations mainly from across the major towns and cities in Zimbabwe to deliberate and come up with common way forward on the takeover of sewer and water reticulation services from the Urban Local Authorities by the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA).

The Convention drew presentations from interest groups and experts, including Urban Councils' Association of Zimbabwe, Local Government, Lawyers, and Social and Economic justice activists.

In view of the adverse policy, financial, economic and social implications of the takeover of sewer and water reticulation by the Zimbabwe National Water Authority from Urban Local Authorities on the residents.

Further due to the lack of technical capacity by ZINWA to takeover the functions.

And further due to the illegality of the takeover. The Participants here present resolve as follows;

Resolutions

1. That we reject the takeover of water and sewer reticulation takeover by ZINWA from the Urban Local Authorities

2. Cabinet should reverse its decision in line with parliament (house of assembly and senate) recommendations.

3. Failure to reverse this decision, residents will roll out a plan of mobilising other residents through programmes and courses of action to resist the takeover, including but not limited to the following;

• Legal suit
• Peaceful resistance
• Boycotts

4. Participants to this convention elect a 13 member National Taskforce Committee to spearhead the implementation of the convention resolutions.

We hereby append our signatures to this declaration.

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