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Chiwenga Summons Copac For 'Briefing'
Mon, Jan 30, 2012
Harare, - Feared army boss, Lieutenant General Constantine Chiwenga has summoned Zanu PF Parliamentary Select Committee (Copac) co-chair Paul Mangwana to brief the military on developments within the crisis prone constitution making process.
Elections Will Be Held This Year, Says Moyo
Fri, Jan 27, 2012
Zimbabwe will hold elections this year as the only condition to guarantee tangible reforms in the country, Zanu-PF Politburo member Professor Jonathan Moyo has said. Prof Moyo was delivering a lecture on the Political Situation in Zimbabwe to officers attending the Joint Command and Staff Course Number 25 at the Zimbabwe Staff College.
COPAC update: 18 chapters ready
Thu, Jan 26, 2012
HARARE - The Constitution Select Committee (COPAC) says 18 of the 19 chapters of the proposed constitutional draft are now complete and ready for analysis by the different stakeholders, paving way for the writing of the draft constitution if all parties append their signatures to the document.
ZANU-PF Reversal on Death Penalty Holds Up Zimbabwe Constitution Draft
Wed, Jan 25, 2012
Select committee sources said parties had agreed on dual citizenship, the devolution of power from the central government and the abolition of capital punishment, but ZANU-PF now wants to reopen those points
Cost Concerns With New Delays in Zimbabwe Constitutional Revision Process
Tue, Jan 24, 2012
The Zimbabwe Independent newspaper reported that the panel is running through US$100,00 dollars a week on accommodation and travel costs and sitting allowances for the 25 members of the committee
COPAC challenges the elderly
Mon, Jan 23, 2012
COPAC spokesperson Jessie Majome has challenged HelpAge for saying that the elderly have been left out in the new constitution.
Cost Concerns With New Delays in Zimbabwe Constitutional Revision Process
Fri, Jan 20, 2012
The Zimbabwe Independent newspaper reported that the panel is running through US$100,00 dollars a week on accommodation and travel costs and sitting allowances for the 25 members of the committee
Mugabe too old to rule - Zimbabweans
Fri, Jan 20, 2012
Most people in Zimbabwe want the maximum age for a presidential candidate to be 70 years at the time of polling.
COPAC tighten security amid threats from the 'War Thugs'
Tue, Jan 17, 2012
The Constitution Select Committee (COPAC) will tighten security at its offices in Harare and bar anyone who is not a journalist from its future briefings, following disruptions by war vets.
Idiotic ZANU PF sympathisers bark during Copac Press Conference
Fri, Jan 13, 2012
Over a dozen vocal war veterans on Friday took over a Zimbabwe Constitution Select Committee (COPAC) press conference and hurled insults at Copac co-chairpersons, accusing them of trying to smuggle gay rights into the new national charter and ignoring the views of the majority. (Picture: Animals on the loose.. so called 'war veterans, some as young as 16 years old)
Zimbabwe war veterans threaten to sue Constitution body
Fri, Jan 13, 2012
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Collaborators Association has threatened Copac (Zimbabwe's Constitutional making body) with a lawsuit for failure to use people's views in drafting the new constitution.
Trademark Dindingwe:Constitution: Zanu PF running scared
Fri, Jan 13, 2012
WRITING on New Zimbabwe.com last week, Zanu PF’s Godwills Masimirembwa and Jacob Mudenda launched a withering attack on the two men and a woman tasked with drafting the new constitution from the mountains of data gathered during an extensive outreach programme last year.
Constitution drafting members moved to secret location
Fri, Jan 06, 2012
DRAFTERS of the country’s troubled new supreme law of the land have been relocated to a secret location in the Eastern Highlands as the troubled Parliamentary Constitution Select Committee (COPAC) moves to shield them from the preying media and plug leakages of crucial data.
Constitution - Drafters Back At Work
Wed, Jan 04, 2012
CONSTITUTION-making is back on track after the Copac Select Committee yesterday agreed that the drafters resume their work next week.
Zimabwe police ready for elections
Sun, Jan 01, 2012
ZRP Senior Assistant Commissioner Silence Pondo said "as the country braces for the constitutional referendum and general elections, the force [police] is fully geared to perform its constitutional mandate of ensuring peaceful polls."
Zimbabwe Prime Minister's MDC Mourns Lawmaker's Sudden Death
Tue, Dec 27, 2011
Senator Gombami-Dube died on Monday after complaining of disorientation and dizziness when she was on her way home to Bulawayo from a funeral in Gokwe reports VOA
Zimbabwe Electoral Chief Plays Down Call For 2011 Elections
Sat, Dec 24, 2011
The ZEC says as part of the preparations, it recently launched a program to train its employees and acquired vehicles, computers, laptops, photocopiers, training equipment and relevant software packages
New Zimbabwe Constitution problems mount
Sat, Dec 24, 2011
The publication of the COPAC national report has caused an uproar, with Zanu PF and MDC-T prontagonists throwing counter accusations at each other as the more problems mount in the constitutional reform process.
