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Wednesday, 13 March 2013 10:49
BULAWAYO - Zimbabwe this Saturday goes for a much-anticipated referendum to determine the fate of a draft constitution largely negotiated by President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Hordes of people in the Matabeleland region will however, not be part...Read More
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Wednesday, 13 March 2013 10:24
HARARE - With fear, apprehension and excitement we are standing on the cusp of a new era in Zimbabwe. We have the unique opportunity of starting again but this time we have the benefit of hindsight, learning from our own...Read More
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013 11:18
HARARE - Referendums have been dramatic at times because citizens traditionally use them to express displeasure with a governing party by voting against its position mid-term. This can be said of the referendum on the draft constitution in 2000. Ask...Read More
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Wednesday, 06 March 2013 11:06
HARARE - The MDC led by Industry and Commerce minister Welshman Ncube, which pulled from the Copac publicity campaigns, says it is going to run a parallel programme in order to get to all corners of the country. Ncube’s MDC pulled...Read More
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Monday, 04 March 2013 12:26
BULAWAYO - Industry minister Welshman Ncube’s MDC party has pulled out of a campaign to push for the adoption of a new constitution in this month’s referendum, saying it felt belittled by its coalition government partners. Ncube’s formation, by far the...Read More
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Tuesday, 26 February 2013 12:34
HARARE - Zanu PF apologists who have over the past months been castigating and denouncing the writing of the new Constitution are in a quandary, struggling to sell it to the people after President Robert Mugabe endorsed it. Jonathan Moyo, who...Read More
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Opinion & Analysis »
Monday, 25 February 2013 12:06
HARARE - The recent agreement on a contentious draft constitution negotiated by President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has left both Zanu PF and the two MDCs in a fix as they try to sell their leaders’ decision to...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Monday, 18 February 2013 11:43
HARARE - Constitution Select Committee (Copac) has produced 70 000 copies of the draft constitution to be distributed in the 210 constituencies countrywide. The copies are to be used by legislators during the public awareness campaign countrywide, to inform members of...Read More
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Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:02
HARARE - Zimbabwe's Principals have given the Cabinet taskforce a June 29 deadline to align the new draft constitution with existing laws, a co-chairperson of a body writing the new constitution has said. Co-chairperson of the Constitution Select Committee (Copac), Priscilla...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Monday, 11 February 2013 12:05
HARARE - Traditional chiefs have made a dramatic U-turn, throwing their weight behind a draft constitution seen as eroding their powers. Debating a motion on the draft constitution in Senate on Thursday, Chief Fortune Charumbira and Chief Ngungubane said they had...Read More
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Opinion & Analysis »
Sunday, 10 February 2013 12:09
HARARE - Zimbabwe’s parliamentarians, who are nothing but rubber stamps for their respective political parties, “adopted and approved” that ridiculous draft constitution. I cannot believe that in the whole Parliament there were no dissenting voices to trumpet against the regression that...Read More
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Wednesday, 06 February 2013 11:34
HARARE - Chiefs who are seeking to derail the constitution- making process are out of line as the programme is now beyond individuals or groups, the Constitution Select Committee (Copac)) has said. Traditional leaders are particularly miffed by the new draft...Read More
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News » Richard Chidza, Staff Writer
Friday, 01 February 2013 13:12
HARARE - Zimbabwe's new draft constitution has been endorsed by the parliamentary body responsible for writing the constitution (Copac). Copac yesterday said they have gone through the draft to fix mistakes and will now present it to parliament next week. Copac...Read More
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Opinion & Analysis »
Thursday, 31 January 2013 11:15
HARARE - They say experience is the best teacher, experience means the same mistakes will not be repeated. For if the same pitfalls are to befall a nation again then that nation does not want to learn or has no...Read More
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Tuesday, 29 January 2013 10:37
HARARE - The general sense of relief which greeted the agreement on a draft constitution by the three political parties is understandable because the process had become a source of unending wrangling. We cannot, however, escape that the process gobbled up...Read More
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