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New Constitution-making process - Index of articles
Harare/Bulawayo
report - Shadowing the outreach process
Zimbabwe
Election Support Network (ZESN), Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights
(ZLHR), Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) Independent Constitution Monitoring
Project (ZZZICOMP)
September
30, 2010
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Overview
This report focuses on constitution outreach consultations in the
two provinces of Harare and Bulawayo, activities that were suspended
when the outreach programme kicked off on 23 June out of fear that
the World Cup matches that had started in South Africa on 11 June
may reduce attendance of outreach meetings in the two metropolitan
provinces.
While constitution outreach consultations in Bulawayo went ahead
as planned under relatively peaceful and inclusive circumstances
though with a few isolated chaotic incidents, those in Harare had
to be abandoned midstream as deep-seated inter-party violence reared
its disgusting face. In fact, outreach experiences in these two
urban provinces of Zimbabwe cast an incomparable contrast-a tale
of two cities remotely related in terms of nationhood.
Outreach
Violations
The nature of violations swung from subtle to extreme forms of
violence with Harare province recording a total of 8 cases of violence.
Barely two days into the outreach programme, the Harare province
had recorded 14 cases of politically motivated disruptions with
even reports of the death of an MDC T activist, Crispen Mandizvidza
from the injuries sustained during one of the disturbances that
rocked outreach meetings in Mbare.
A total of 307 outreach violations were recorded in the period
under review with an incident spread of 78 cases of coaching, 77
of political interference, 72 of harassment and 8 of violence.
In terms of
provincial spread, outreach violations remained heavily skewed towards
Harare province, the metropolitan capital accounting for 94 % [288]
of the violations while 19 were from Bulawayo.
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