4.1 Provincial and District Administration

The commission recommends that:

1. The president should appoint a provincial or resident minister who will be in charge of all political functions in the province and will be answerable to the president;

   This is ACCEPTED.

2. The provincial or resident minister be assisted by a small, but effective, team of civil servants;

   This is ACCEPTED.

    

3. At the district level, the Third Republic should revert to the mayoral/chairmanship system which existed before the introduction of the Local Administration Act No.15 of 1980;

   This is ACCEPTED.

4. Civic and political functions at the district level must be severed and separated, with the former being administered by the mayor/chairman and the latter, by a political appointee assisted by civil servants headed by the District Secretary;

   This is ACCEPTED.

    

5. In the light of some successful local government systems elsewhere, consideration should be given, at an appropriate time in the future to residents who are not Zambians to take part in the local government elections by expressing themselves in local affairs and contributing to local development;

   This is ACCEPTED.

    

6. Consideration be given to the request for re-demarcation of Provinces.

This is ACCEPTED.