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Sacked Zanu PF MP involved in car accident
A ZANU PF MP, fired from the constitution making exercise last year, has been involved in a serious car accident along the Harare-Guruve road. Edward Chindori Chininga, the outspoken MP for Guruve South, was said to be trapped in the car for a considerable amount of time while other injured victims were taken to hospital.
COPAC is a ‘trough feeding exercise’
The COPAC exercise is a trough feeding exercise that enriches a self-selected elite while engaging in a fraudulent consultation of ‘the’ people.
Taking the constitutional debate to Jo’burg
While MDC officials said that the diaspora community would be allowed to participate, ZANU PF has indicated at different forums that as long as targeted ‘sanctions’ remain, the diaspora will not participate in any political processes. In a bid to engage the diaspora The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition held a public hearing at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg.
Zimbabwe officially launches constitutional outreach
Zimbabwe officially launched the beginning of public hearings to determine what people would like to see in a new constitution. All three party leaders Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara appeared together at the posh Rainbow Towers Conference Centre for the launch.
Zanu PF’s mercenary MPs disrupt Constitution-making process
The MDC dismisses the mercenary attitude by Zanu PF MPs in a deliberate and well-calculated ploy to derail and commercialize the Constitution-making process expected to kick off on 16 June 2010. The political posturing by the Zanu PF MPs is nothing but an attempt to derail the Constitution-making process by recreating their violent comedy of [...]
Where MDC, Zanu PF & NCA differ
By Faith Zaba WHILE Zanu PF, MDC-T and the National Constitutional Assembly agree on many aspects of what should be in the new constitution, the three disagree on fundamental areas to do with the executive, commissions, land, systems of government and on how the bill of rights should be expanded. On the executive, the NCA [...]
NCA & MDC have agreed to disagree
By Dr Lovemore Madhuku IT IS now 12 years since the formation of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA). More significantly, it is ten years since the people of Zimbabwe rejected the Chidyausiku Commission’s Draft Constitution in February 2000. This ‘no’ vote was significant particularly because it was the first time that we, as Zimbabwean citizens, [...]
New Zimbabwe constitution by Feb 2011
Sebastian Nyamhangambiri HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitutional committee has said it hopes to produce a new draft constitution only by next February, which could see fresh elections that were initially earmarked for 2011 further delayed. Joint-chairman of the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (COPAC) driving the reforms Munyaradzi-Paul Mangwana said that the constitution making process was several months [...]




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