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Zimbabweans wishing to cast their votes during the referendum will do so between 7am and 7pm, according to a statement published in the government gazette on Friday, and issued on the orders of President Robert Mugabe.
I wish to continue my contribution on national topical issues as a citizen belonging to a Traditional African religion and share with fellow interested citizens how every inch of these national developments also affect the church and vice versa.
With the dates for the referendum already set by the government, people living with disabilities have denounced the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (COPAC) Draft Constitution saying it does not address their plights.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says Zimbabwe will likely hold presidential and parliamentary elections in July, after voting on a new constitution in March. The government has already set a March 16 date for the constitutional referendum.
We are not party to this ‘consensus’ and wherever the document will go, let it be known that we of Jowani Masowe weChishanu are not party to the document that specifies a law that provides for the killing of fellow humans.
Almost exactly thirteen years after Zimbabwe was last faced with a proposed new constitution we are back in the same place again. Parliament has just approved a draft constitution that gobbled up a massive forty five million US dollars.
The National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) could turn out to be the only civil society organisation urging a no vote on the draft constitution, sources in Harare said on Wednesday.
It really looks as if Zimbabwe is edging closer to a new constitution at last. The draft document still has to get through parliament and then be put to the people in a referendum, though how exactly that is going to be paid for is not clear.
HARARE – MDC-T spokesperson, Douglas Mwonzora, has dismissed reports that his party sold out by agreeing to the constitutional draft which some observers have said favours Zanu (PF).
HARARE – A draft constitution in Zimbabwe that paves the way for an election this year curbs presidential powers and strengthens cabinet and parliament, which have been weakened under veteran President Robert Mugabe’s rule.