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Ouster
of Makwavarara a non-event
Combined Harare
Residents Association (CHRA)
August 06, 2007
THE Combined
Harare Residents' Association (CHRA) is not surprised by Monday's
ouster of Sekesai Makwavarara as the head of the illegal commission
running Harare. The action of the regime against their own is consistent
with the way it abuses its power over gullible opportunists.
Makwavarara
allowed herself to be abused by the regime. She was always an expendable
pawn. Her replacement Michael Mahachi is equally being used to further
the interests of this insensitive regime.
Residents of
Harare reject without reservation the changing of faces at Town
House. Replacing an illegal board with another illegal one is the
height of hypocrisy by this regime, which continues to trample on
our rights to elect leaders of our choice. Certainly, two wrongs
never make a right.
Zanu PF's
agenda of masking residents is futile and will soon backfire. Nothing
has changed at Town House. We will continue to mobilise for collective
responses to the crisis of governance in Harare by intensifying
our rates boycott campaign and decentralised actions.
The residents
of Harare have consistently demanded that elections for the Executive
Mayor and Councillors should be held urgently to replace the illegal
commission, imposed by the regime in December 2004.
The Minister of Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development
has again demonstrated his unwillingness to engage the citizens
of this City and is determined to undermine the Urban
Councils' Act (Chapter 29:15) and disobey the five court
judgments that declared Commission running Harare illegal.
CHRA condemns
the continuous re-appointment of the Commission running Harare on
the basis of jurisprudence. It violates the basic tenets of democracy,
transparent and good-accountable governance.
The Association
reiterates its demands for the:
- Immediate
holding of Mayoral and Municipal elections in Harare
- Revision
of the local government framework in line with its submissions
to Parliament
- Enshrining
of local government in the Constitution
- Creation
of clear and transparent delimitation process outside partisan
political considerations.
- New constitution
to be the basis for national reform before any Parliamentary or
Presidential election is held in Zimbabwe.
- Creation
of a free and fair electoral framework, which upholds freedoms
of expression, assembly and association, and free access to media
(print and electronic). Repealing of repressive legislation (POSA,
AIPPA,
and BSA).
Visit the CHRA
fact
sheet
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