CENTRALISATION OF LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY IN ZIMBABWE
CENTRALISATION OF LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY IN ZIMBABWE

Summary/Abstract: The article engages on purported Zimbabwe centralization of local administrative authority in recent years. The engagement takes place against the background of Zimbabwe having previously made notable inroads in its decentralization reforms earlier on in its history following the end of colonial rule. The article drew from robust document analysis, decentralization theory and the concepts of decentralization and centralization to engage on national government’s centralization of local administrative authority in Zimbabwe. The article finds that it is something of a paradox that present-day Zimbabwe appears to be backpeddling after seemingly setting itself voluntarily on a firm path to decentralization of governmental authority and responsibility to the local units of government. In particular, it finds that administrative centralization, fiscal centralization and political centralization are now a common feature of intergovernmental relations in Zimbabwe.

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