Historically, the urbanisation process in Zimbabwe was designed to facilitate the development of a prosperous settler community with black Africans providing migrant labour. The black Africans were seen as sojourners in the urban areas. This "two-legged" existence in both rural and urban areas meant that only the able-bodied were resident in the urban areas but who would eventually retire to their rural homes on termination of their employment contracts. This implied that only the colonial settlers eventually retired in the urban areas, a factor which necessitated the then colonial government...