Kusile Rural District Council (RDC) has said devolution funds have significantly improved infrastructure development and service delivery in Lupane District, Matabeleland North Province.
In a public notice, council highlighted several projects implemented through devolution funding, including the construction of 11 classroom blocks, four school cottages, one health cottage and four solar-equipped boreholes.
Council also revealed that it had acquired key machinery and vehicles to support development projects.
These include two tipper trucks, a tractor backhoe loader, a tractor and farm trailer, a supervision vehicle, an eight-tonne truck and a fire engine.
Kusile Rural District Council (RDC) is in Lupane District, which hosts the provincial capital of Matabeleland North, Lupane Local Board.
The local authority said the classroom blocks improved learning conditions for pupils who previously learnt under trees or in pole and dagga structures.
“The classroom blocks have improved infrastructure at our learning institutions by providing a convenient environment from pole and dagga huts or learning under trees. All the classroom blocks were constructed in new schools,” the local authority said without giving details of the schools.
Kusile RDC added that the machinery and equipment acquired through devolution funds helped to reduce project implementation costs, especially during road construction and rehabilitation work.
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“The machinery and equipment have reduced project implementation costs from construction, rehabilitation or material transportation. Instead of hiring transporters to ferry river sand, quarry or gravel, council uses its own equipment,” council said.
Council further said the devolution programme empowered communities and enhanced development in line with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's mantra of “leaving no place and no one behind.”
Kusile RDC highlighted the district’s economic potential, citing livestock production and natural resources such as coal-bed methane gas, coal, wildlife, agricultural land, solar energy, hardwood timber, and clay.
“These natural resources need to be tapped, especially coal-bed methane gas, which can address the power shortfall not only in the country but in the Sadc region,” council said.
It expressed optimism that the Gwayi-Shangani Lake project will unlock opportunities in tourism, hospitality and agriculture across the district.
