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MDC-T
picks Harare deputy mayor
NewsDay
August 20, 2013
http://www.newsday.co.zw/2013/08/20/mdc-t-picks-harare-deputy-mayor/
Harare councillor
for Ward 14 in Kambuzuma, Thomas Muzuva, has been elected deputy
mayor for Harare.
Muzuva, who
is the outgoing business committee chairperson, was nominated for
the post together with Glen Norah councillor Herbert Gomba before
they went for interviews at the MDC-T headquarters yesterday.
“It’s
a pleasure to get such a high position and our task is to provide
service delivery for the people of Harare,” said an elated
Muzuva.
The MDC-T leadership
is, however, yet to decide on the mayor’s position amid indications
that the party’s deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma, spokesperson
Douglas Mwonzora and Harare spokesperson Obert Gutu were in the
race.
Women Assembly
chairperson Theresa Makone yesterday said she was not keen for the
post.
“I am
not interested in that post, I have never been. I don’t know
where people got it that I am interested in that post,” said
Makone.
Mwonzora and
Gutu declined to comment saying the party would decide on whom to
second to Town House.
“The decision
is going to lie with the leadership of the party. Our names were
proposed and the decision is not mine, but the president of the
party and leadership of the party as well as the supporters,”
said Mwonzora.
Gutu said: “I
can’t comment on that, we will wait for the party to make
a decision.”
According to
the new Constitution, the mayors of Harare and Bulawayo metropolitan
provinces would become chairpersons of the metropolitan councils
while the mayors from the second largest city within the province
becomes deputy chairpersons.
This means the
Chitungwiza mayor becomes deputy to Harare mayor.
The MDC-T has
lined up former minister Fidelis Mhashu, outgoing mayor Philemon
Chipiyo, Fortune Mangwiro, a businessman, and Isaac Manyemba for
the Chitungwiza post.
“The position
of mayor is not mayor in the actual sense of the word, but is like
a governor of a province. We want to defend the interests of the
party in the whole of Harare and we need someone who is up to the
task in the next five years. So these people (councillors) do not
understand what they say when they argue that the lining up of party
bigwigs was motivated by greed,” said a senior MDC-T insider.
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