He was a member of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe for Mbare East from 1990 to 2000 and served as deputy minister of local government, rural and urban development from 1995 until 2000.

[1][3] In 1980, he was named chief executive officer of Negondo Industries, a chemical and cosmetics manufacturing company, a position he held until 1995.

[5] Gara became the first black member of the Harare City Council (then Salisbury) in 1979 when he was elected to a seat representing Greendale.

"[15][17][18][19] Gara's statement was criticized by churches and individuals within Zimbabwe, with letters to local newspapers accusing him of blasphemy and sycophancy.

[4][15] The Catholic magazine Moto argued that Zimbabwe did not need a cult of personality like that of Kim Il Sung in North Korea.

After the election, he was named to the new cabinet as deputy minister of local government, rural and urban development, an office he held for five years.

[1][16][20] He was very critical of the United States, saying in 1995 "John Major has kept every promise he ever made to Zimbabwe, that's something that Bill Clinton simply cannot say.

[6][21][22] On 4 January 2002, Gara's name was included on a government list published in The Herald of around 100,000 black Zimbabweans selected to receive land seized from white farmers.

[4][16][23][24] Gara was listed as having been allocated a commercial farm seized from a white farmer in Mashonaland West, the country's richest agricultural province.

[25] In May 2005, Gara was named to a five-person monitoring committee created by local government minister Ignatius Chombo to wrest authority over Harare from the capital's MDC-dominated city council.

[22] In July 2005, Gara and colleague Shepherd Chironga filed a Z$110 million defamation lawsuit against Namion Modern Chirwa, chairman of ZANU–PF's Joshua Nkomo District in Mbare.