Analysis of 2025 Zimbabwe Local Government Performance Scores
Reconsidering Local Government Failure in Zimbabwe: A Response to the 2025 Public Sector Performance Scores Leopold Bhoroma Zimbabwe’s 2025 public sector performance results have produced both moments of excellence and moments of concern. It is important to recognise both with equal clarity. First, congratulations are in order. Blessing Chafesuka, Town Clerk for Mutare, has been deservedly recognised as the country’s best-performing Town Clerk. This achievement reflects not only personal leadership, but also solid vision, institutional effort and a commitment to navigating complexity in one of Zimbabwe’s most dynamic urban environments. Dr Lucia Mkandla, Town Clerk for Kwekwe City, the winner in 2024, emerged as the first runner-up, an equally commendable recognition of leadership in a challenging city with a failing iron and steel industry that once drove the economy. Consider Kubiku, Acting Town Secretary for Chiredzi, takes the position of second runner-up, demonstrating that even i...