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The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has denied earlier reports that it had allocated US$300,000 for this year’s Bulawayo Arts Festival (BAF), saying the actual cost of the event will be US$30,000.
This came after the local authority was criticised by residents for funding an arts festival at a time when it was struggling to provide water for ratepayers.
In a statement on Friday, BCC Corporate Communications Manager, Nesisa Mpofu, said the BAF budget caters for various activities. She said:
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The Bulawayo Arts Festival is budgeted for in the City of Bulawayo 2024 Budget under the Festivals and Recreational Activities line item which caters for various activities which also include the Youth Festival, youth training programmes under recreational services, participation at exhibitions (for example participation and training of Drum majorettes for the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair among other aspects amounting to US$300,000 for all the programmes).
The Budget for the 2024 Bulawayo Day and Bulawayo Arts Festival is US$30,000 instead of US$300,000 alluded to in some media reports and this budget includes the cost of venues as Council’s contribution and cross charges across various Municipal Departments.
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The City of Bulawayo commemorates Bulawayo Day on the 1st of June and Bulawayo Festival (BAF) week from the 2 to 5 June annually since 2020 following the resolution of Council on 02 October 2019.
1 June was declared Bulawayo Day because it is the anniversary day of the declaration of Bulawayo as a town.
The declaration of Bulawayo Day and Festival Week by the Council was followed by lobbying by stakeholders in the creative industries.
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Bulawayo City Council Denies Allocating US$300K To Arts Festival

Bulawayo residents have criticised the council for provisionally allocating a US$300,000 budget to host the Bulawayo Arts Festival next month.
The Bulawayo United Residents Association (BURA) says the funds should be channelled towards addressing the city’s perennial water shortages where residents often endure weeks without running water.
In an interview with <a href="https://www.chronicle.co.zw/residents-decry-us300k-bulawayo-arts-festival-budget/">Chronicle,</a> Winos Dube, the BURA chairperson, said residents were not opposed to the hosting of arts festivals in the city, but the local authority should prioritise service delivery. Said Dube:
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While we support hosting arts festivals in the city, we are facing the most severe water crisis in years.
Therefore, we strongly believe that every available cent should be allocated towards ensuring water provision in the most affected suburbs.
Some suburbs go for weeks without running water and that funding could be better utilised to supply residents with water through bowsers.
The question we, as residents, are asking ourselves is: Are our leaders willing to prioritise a festival over essential service delivery?
Water provision is key; water is life. Thus, we expect our leaders to address the water issue without delay.
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According to council minutes obtained by the Chronicle, a proposal has been made to allocate a budget of US$300 000 for the festival scheduled to from June 2 to 5. The minutes read in part:
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It shall be recalled that council at its sitting on 2nd October 2019 resolved to declare the 1st of June as Bulawayo Day and the 2nd to the 5th of June as Bulawayo Arts Festival week.
This was the result of the lobbying from stakeholders in the creative industry. Since then, the Bulawayo Arts Festival has been commemorated annually during the first week of June.
The festival’s objectives are to showcase the city’s rich cultural heritage and diversity as well as marketing it as a tourist destination.
The festival is commemorated through several activities that include musical shows, dance, and exhibitions, among others.
The City of Bulawayo and other key stakeholders in the arts, culture and heritage sectors prepare and line up festivities to commemorate the event.
Annually, council budgets for the festival. This year a total of three hundred thousand dollars (US$300 000.00) has been provisionally budgeted for the festival in the hold of vote.
The Arts and Culture office will come up with a programme of events for the festival.
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The Bulawayo Arts Festival, an annual celebration, follows the Bulawayo Day commemorations, which are held on June 1 every year.
Bulawayo Day commemorations mark the establishment of the City of Bulawayo as a town, on June 1, 1894.
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Bulawayo Arts Festival Budget Of US$300k Draws Criticism From Residents

David Coltart, the mayor of Bulawayo reportedly left a meeting of the city’s finance committee abruptly following a dispute over the planned spending of US$300,000 on the Bulawayo Arts Festival in June.
The request to fund the festival was tabled during a meeting held on April 23. The festival is set to be held from 2 to 5 June, after the commemoration of Bulawayo Day on June 1.
The festival was first held in 2019 following lobbying by the arts industry.
According to <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/article/bulawayo-councillors-clash-over-us300k-budget-for-arts-festival/">ZimLive</a>, Coltart told councillors he had another engagement before walking out of the meeting.
But before he left, the former Minister of Education told the other councillors on the committee that the city had other priority projects in need of funding. Coltart added that it would be hard to justify spending US$300 000 on a cultural festival.
Bulawayo’s director of housing Dictor Khumalo made the request for funding the festival. He said:
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Annually, council budgets for the festival. This year a total of US$300,000 has been provisionally budgeted for the festival in the hold on vote.
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Councillors who supported the proposal included Ward 28 councillor Ntando Ndlovu (CCC) and the committee’s chairman, Ward 26 councillor Mpumelelo Moyo (CCC).
Coltart told the councillors that allocating limited council funds to the festival, despite its commendable goal of highlighting the city’s cultural heritage and diversity, would be unjustifiable.
He was supported ward by 22 councillor Bruce Moyo (CCC) and Ward 24 councillor Tavengwa Zidya (ZANU PF) in resisting the proposal.
A councillor who attended the meeting told ZimLive:
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Most of the councillors felt that the council administration led by the town clerk (Christopher Dube) and Khumalo was behind the push for the council to bankroll the festival. Councillors were not satisfied the money, if released, would be properly accounted for anyway.
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Zidya told councillors that the money should be spent on repairing street lights and buying plumbing equipment to attend to blocked sewers promptly.
However, Ndlovu pleaded for the release of the money, saying the programme supports local artists that he said were not getting a fair shot at showcasing themselves during major music concerts.
Coltart confirmed to ZimLive that he left the meeting early, but denied this was in protest over the debate. He said:
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I didn’t leave in protest. When I left there appeared to be a broad consensus that it would be inappropriate to spend this money given our major water infrastructural needs during this drought year.
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Following the animated discussions, the meeting concluded without reaching a resolution regarding the controversial proposal.
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Bulawayo Councillors Divided Over US$300k Budget For Arts Festival

BBC declared 1 June of every year a Bulawayo day and the City Of Kings has decided to commemorate the day with a 4-day Carnival, the Bulawayo Arts Festival, that will run from the 2nd to the 5th of June every year Sunday News reports.
Cultural activists Nhimbe Trust, welcomed the move when they spoke to the publication and said:
<blockquote>Declaring the Bulawayo Day, and Festival week is the most significant cultural governance resolution by the City of Bulawayo in its 125 years lifetime, indeed it is also the most significant advocacy impact story for Nhimbe Trust. Cognisant of the value of arts and culture as a driver for sustainable development, Nhimbe Trust first engaged the Bulawayo City Council in 2014 in the proposed development of a cultural policy for the city.</blockquote>
Bulawayo City and the Nhimbe Trust signed an MOU in 2015 to establish a Bulawayo Cultural Affairs office to help the council implement the cultural policy.
More: <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/world-bodies-embrace-bulawayo-day/">Sunday News</a>

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