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Nyikayaramba stirs furore at Copac http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Sunday, 05 June 2011 07:51 CAIPHAS CHIMHETE THE management committee of the Constitution Select Committee (Copac) is meeting tomorrow to deliberate on the controversial involvement of state security agents representing Zanu PF in the constitution-making process. The meeting comes amid reports that Zanu PF has seconded members of the intelligence, army and …
Constitution won’t be ready end of year – Matinenga http://www.dailynews.co.zw By Helen Kadirire, Staff WriterFriday, 03 June 2011 17:31 HARARE – A new constitution that coalition partners agree is key to fresh polls will not be ready before the end of the year, dealing a blow to President Robert Mugabe’s furious calls for an election this year, …
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Magistrate takes leave to work as ZANU PF advisor in COPAC http://www.swradioafrica.com/ By Tichaona Sibanda26 May 2011 A Harare based regional magistrate, Never Katiyo, has taken sabbatical leave from his Rotten Row court room to work as a ZANU PF technical advisor on the drafting of a new constitution. He usually presides over his cases using court …
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Tough Road Ahead For Zimbabwe’s New Constitution http://www.voanews.com Peta Thornycroft | Harare May 17, 2011 Zimbabwe’s main political parties are at odds again, this time over the process of transferring public opinion into 17 clauses of the proposed new constitution. About a million people attended some 5,000 public meetings last year, and President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party says …
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Constitution Watch of 13th May [Thematic Committee Stage] CONSTITUTION WATCH 2011 [13th May 2011] Thematic Committee Stage During this stage of the constitution-making process opinions collected during the public outreach are to be compiled into reports following the seventeen themes decided on by the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitution [now known as COPAC] …
Constitution responses on media raise eyebrows http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 13 May 2011 08:21 By Faith Zaba JOURNALISTS who write stories critical of the government and the president should either be jailed or hanged. These are some of the views expressed by villagers in Zanu PF’s stronghold of Mashonaland West during the constitution outreach meetings.According to documents obtained by the …
Zim Constitutional Process Stalls http://www.radiovop.com/ 11/05/2011 13:42:00 Harare, May 11, 2011 – Zimbabwe’s constitution making process has temporarily stalled following massive disagreements among the country’s main political parties over the approach to use to analyse the people’s views gathered last year by the Constitutional Parliamentary Select Committee (COPAC). Zanu (PF) politicians have suggested that the thematic committees meeting in Harare …
Zim Constitutional Process Stalls http://www.radiovop.com/ 11/05/2011 13:42:00 Harare, May 11, 2011 – Zimbabwe’s constitution making process has temporarily stalled following massive disagreements among the country’s main political parties over the approach to use to analyse the people’s views gathered last year by the Constitutional Parliamentary Select Committee (COPAC). Zanu (PF) politicians have suggested that the thematic committees meeting in Harare …
New spark in constitution-making process http://www.timeslive.co.za May 7, 2011 1:07 PM | By HARARE CORRESPONDENT The on-and-off constitution-making process in Zimbabwe has resumed after nearly two months of dormancy. The programme was reignited this week but there are doubts the constitution will be in place before the end of the year. The Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (Copac), the …
Diaspora Zimbos snub constitution-making http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Wednesday, 20 April 2011 21:18 Wongai Zhangazha ZIMBABWEANS in the diaspora have always vociferously complained about being deliberately excluded from national processes by virtue of their physical absence.They have held night vigils in prominent world capitals demonstrating against human rights abuses in Zimbabwe by the government and Zanu PF supporters. They have also tried …