Lawrence Mushayabasa

Debunking the Rural-Urban Dichotomy: Framework towards a Single Legislation that Enables Integration of Rural and Urban Local Authorities in Zimbabwe

The governance landscape in Zimbabwe is beset by profound issues of rapidly growing urbanisation and peri-urban growth that blur traditional rural-urban boundaries and expose the shortcomings of separate legislative frameworks such as the Rural District Councils Act and Urban Councils Act. Although the current dual sys...