Participatory budgeting in the City of Kwekwe (Zimbabwe) : a perspective on the issues-trends and options

Abstract

Towards the end of 2017, as has been the case every year, the Kwekwe City
 Council produced a budget outlining its various activities for the 2018 financial
 year. The unveiling of the 2018 budget was, among other things, accompanied
 by disgruntlement, confrontation, street protests and dejection by the inhabitants
 of the City. At the centre of the problem, city inhabitants argued, was the
 failure of the City Council to proactively engage and involve them in the budget
 formulation and claims that previous budgets have failed to tackle poor service
 delivery. On the other hand, the City Council (comprising the administration
 and elected officials) rebutted these claims although there was general acceptance
 that the level of service delivery does not meet the expectations of the
 citizens of Kwekwe. The article, in the context of contributing to the debate on
 good governance, challenges the claim that the budgeting process in the City of
 Kwekwe is participatory.

https://journals.co.za/content/journal/ajpa

https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/59589

am2019

School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA)