Sekesai Makwavarara is the former deputy mayor and acting mayor of Harare

Harare

Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

. Makwararara began her work for council in 2002 for Mabvuku as a member of the Movement for Democratic Change party. Initially a member of ZANU-PF, she temporarily was a member of the Movement for Democratic Change.During her tenure of service for the Mabvuku city council she served under deputy mayor Elias Mudzuri

Elias Mudzuri

Elias Mudzuri is a Zimbabwean engineer and politician. Mudzuri was elected to a four-year term as Mayor of Harare, a city of 1.8 million, in March 2002. Trained in Sierre Leone as a civil engineer, the mayor is a Fellow of the Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers. Before becoming mayor, he had worked...

 until she was appointed as acting mayor following the forced deposition of Mudzuri by the national government.After the MDC party launched a probe which identified her as being corrupt she rejoined the ZANU-PF. She resigned from this position in 2004. In 2006, she was appointed as the head of a commission that ran the Harare City Council's affairs until December 2008.