Angeline Kasipo
| Angeline Kasipo | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Residence | Kwekwe |
| Occupation | Mayor |
| Employer | Kwekwe Town Council |
| Organization | MDC Alliance |
| Known for | Being the first female Mayor for Kwekwe Town Council |
| Predecessor | Matenda Madzoke |
Angeline Kasipo is a politician, Councillor for Ward 10 and was the Mayor of Kwekwe. She became the first female mayor of Kwekwe on 4 September 2018. [1]
Background
Angeline has always been passionate about human rights and social justice. She is a social worker by training, so equality, justice and human rights are her areas of concern. So about how she found herself in council, when she was in the United Kingdom and saw how the country was highly populated, but they manage to keep their towns extremely clean, they manage to provide basic services to their people, millions of people but they still manage. When she came back home, she found that there is no water, people go for weeks with no running water, yet there are so few of us — so she asked why can’t we manage to provide for so few a people? So in the first days she would engage council and demand answers, until she decided to get in and get it done by herself.
Service/Career
At the time of her appointment as the Kwekwe Mayor she was the chairperson of the National Council of Social Workers of Zimbabwe and it was her third year at the helm. She resigned from that position to concentrate on her new challenge. She also ran her own business and she thought she is not doing badly. She had a staff compliment of about 12 and she was effectively running the business in that difficult economic situation. [2]
2021 Mayor Elected
In August 2021, MDC-T councillor for Ward 2 in Kwekwe Future Titora was elected the new mayor of Kwekwe, while Ward 3 Pikurai Msipa (MDC Alliance) was elected deputy mayor. This was after a rerun caused by a deadlock after she received the same number of votes as MDC Alliance Ward 7 councillor Charles Juta.
The mayoral and deputy mayor posts fell vacant following the recall of Angeline Kasipo (Ward 10) and Melody Chingarande (Ward 5) respectively, by the MDC T, together with Ward 12 councillor Washington Moyo.
Titora, Kwekwe`s second successive female mayor, appealed to fellow Councillors prioritise service delivery, desist from “bickering” and “spearhead development within the city’. [3]
Events
Statement after inauguration
After being inaugurated Kasipo said:
I feel humbled by the gesture and the confidence that people of Kwekwe have shown in me. I promise to repay them through servant leadership. I will be there for the people. I feel people in Kwekwe should have uninterrupted water supply. I promise to ensure that the water supply system is working right round the clock. I feel it is a bit unfair for us to say vendors should be removed from the streets when we have no alternative for them. I think it is prudent to create space for them then we move them there.
Controversy
She caused a stir among the people when her picture in Zanu PF umbrella went viral. [4]
References
- ↑ Angeline Kasipo Becomes Kwekwe's First Female Mayor ⋆ Pindula News, Pindula News, retrieved: 5 Sep 2018
- ↑ [1],Zimbabwe Situation, Published: October 9, 2018, Retrieved: 6 February 2020
- ↑ Kwekwe city gets new mayor., 984 Midlands, Published: 20 August 2021, Retrieved: 22 September 2023
- ↑ [2],ZW News, Published: April 21, 2019, Retrieved: 6 February 2020
