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Friday, 14 December 2012 09:51
HARARE - A seven-member Cabinet taskforce produced a new draft constitution for Zimbabwe on Wednesday, seeking to beat a Christmas deadline set by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is also eager to get the draft out...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Tuesday, 11 December 2012 11:54
HARARE - Prospects of a breakthrough in the constitution-making process logjam hinge on today’s meeting between President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF and the two MDC formations led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Industry and Commerce minister Welshman Ncube. Mugabe, in...Read More
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Saturday, 01 December 2012 12:56
HARARE - Zimbabwe's long-awaited new constitution must now be amended by proxies from leaders of the three ruling parties, but signs are this will be anything but a smooth transition. The next step for the charter after the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Friday, 30 November 2012 11:09
HARARE - Government plans to divert money meant for community projects to fund a constitution-making process hijacked by President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s ruling parties. Communities across Zimbabwe have been benefitting from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), under...Read More
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News » Ndakaziva Majaka, Staff Writer
Wednesday, 28 November 2012 09:20
HARARE - A local rights group yesterday slammed the coalition government for failing to package information on the constitution-making process for the handicapped in Zimbabwe. Kumbirai Mafunda, communications officer for Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) said it was unfortunate the...Read More
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Tuesday, 20 November 2012 10:54
BULAWAYO - Welshman Ncube, leader of the smaller MDC by legislative representation, has called on Sadc and African Union(AU) to mediate and break the logjam in the constitution-making process. Speaking at a rally in Emakhandeni suburb in Bulawayo over the weekend,...Read More
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Saturday, 10 November 2012 13:13
HARARE - The Zimbabwe Election Support Network, ZESN ballot update reports that while the Second All-Stakeholders’ Conference finally took place last month — though devoid of overt violence and intimidation — it faced a number of problems. ZESN identified the...Read More
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News » Ndakaziva Majaka, Staff Writer
Saturday, 10 November 2012 13:10
HARARE - The new draft constitution is a “better devil” than the current Lancaster House charter, Zapu vice president Emelia Mukaratirwa has said. She told supporters in Gwanda at a recent rally meant to garner backing for the draft, that the...Read More
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Friday, 09 November 2012 10:23
HARARE - Zimbabwe's reputation is at stake as rival political parties draw battle lines over a controversial new constitution, with President Mugabe’s Zanu PF insisting on wide-ranging changes to the draft at its Wednesday politburo meeting. With a boisterous, divisive...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Monday, 05 November 2012 12:03
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has blocked attempts which emanated from President Robert Mugabe’s office to dismantle the Constitution Select Committee (Copac). After failing to collapse Copac through litigation and clear sabotage, Zanu PF hardliners last week tried to dismantle...Read More
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Sunday, 04 November 2012 14:01
HARARE - The big news since the Second All-Stakeholders meeting has been President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Industry minister Welshman Ncube’s role in the constitution-making process. Mugabe opened a can of worms when he stated that the Principals...Read More
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Sunday, 04 November 2012 13:00
HARARE - Multiple lessons can be learnt from the Copac- led Second All-Stakeholders’ Constitutional conference held in Harare recently. All serious stakeholders from civil society organisations to political parties as well as the Copac itself are set to benefit from the...Read More
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Friday, 02 November 2012 09:41
HARARE - The constitution-making process has been a mess thus far, yet the people of Zimbabwe have maintained some measure of hope that sanity will prevail. And that whatever comes out of this process would at the very minimum, allow society...Read More
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Thursday, 01 November 2012 09:59
HARARE - Parliament's constitution select committee is giving in to executive demands to hand all Constitution reports so that the three Principals can finalise the writing of the new charter. The 25-member Parliament select committee met in Harare yesterday amid executive...Read More
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Friday, 26 October 2012 11:23
HARARE - The just-ended constitution Second All- Stakeholders’ Conference ended without clarity regarding the next step in finalising the draft constitution, a coalition of local rights groups has said. The Zimbabwe Peace Project, Zimbabwe Election Support Network and Zimbabwe Lawyers for...Read More
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