Constitution

GWERU - Police will have powers to shoot suspects who resist arrest or attempt to flee from police custody under sweeping new powers.
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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his new wife Elizabeth Macheka have decided to cancel their honeymoon and spend the week in Zimbabwe so that the MDC-T leader can concentrate on “pressing national issues.”
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Last week South African president Jacob Zuma, the SADC appointed facilitator in the GPA, dispatched his facilitation team to among other issues, break the so-called impasse in the constitution making process writes Blessing Vava.
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Our new draft constitution has finally been released. It has been four years in the making and cost over forty million US dollars to get to this stage. The draft runs to 164 pages; each of its fifty six thousand plus words has cost over one…
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The ruling by the Supreme Court last week specifically ordering the holding of by-elections in the three vacant constituencies, namely Bulilima East, Nkayi South and Lupane East — and by extension other areas as well — has provoked a heated…
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With so much misinformation around the constitution making process SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma speaks to lawyer Jessie Majome, who is the chairperson of the sub committee on Information and Publicity in COPAC. Majome, who is also…
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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…
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The COPAC exercise is a trough feeding exercise that enriches a self-selected elite while engaging in a fraudulent consultation of 'the' people.
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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…
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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…
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