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Zimbabwe
Election Watch - April 2012
Idasa
May 08, 2012
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Measuring the Zimbabwean electoral environment according
to the SADC Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections
On the 17th
of August 2004, the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
leaders adopted the SADC
Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections."
As a member of SADC, Zimbabwe was a signatory to these benchmark
principles, and therefore it is entirely fitting that Zimbabwe's
performance in relation to the future elections be measured against
these principles and guidelines.
The Electoral
Institute for the Sustainability of Democracy in Africa presents
a brief overview of Zimbabwe's electoral system on their website.
SADC
principles for conducting democratic elections:
| |
Divergence/Obstructive
Legislation |
Compliant |
| 2.1.1 Full
participation of citizens in the political process |
- Zimbabwean
students sponsored under President Robert Mugabe's
scholarship fund to attend universities in neighbouring
South Africa have been banned from engaging in political
activism;
-
Stanley Ncube, Zapu's organising secretary for Umguza
constituency in Matebeleland North, was arrested for campaigning
for "devolution of power" to be included in
the new constitution;
-
Citizenship of Zimbabwe Amendment Act, 2003;
-
Guardianship of Minors Act, 1961;
- Broadcasting
Services Act, 2001
|
No |
| 2.1.2
Freedom of association |
- Zimbabwean
police arrested 15 activists from MDC-N in Tsholotsho South
district of Matabeleland North province, claiming they had
conducted an 'illegal' meeting;
- Public
Order and Security Act, 2002, amended 2007.
|
No |
2.1.3
Political
tolerance
|
- Nomathemba
Ndlovu, the MDC-T Matabeleland South Women's Assembly
chairperson, was yesterday arrested in Gwanda while distributing
the Prime Minister's newsletter.
|
No |
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