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Bulawayo
Agenda
July 16, 2010
Gweru - Cases of intimidation for civic society activists
and human rights defenders continue to take place in the area. A
number of activists were last week barred from holding meetings
in . . . . West after the community leaders informed that they
need to get permission from the District Administrator. Gweru Agenda,
programme officer Ntombiyezansi Tozana explained that it does not
matter whether one has a police clearance or not and whether they
have been granted permission by the local leadership who include
the chief and head man; they still need to come to the venue with
the DA. Despite there having been 97 people at a meeting organised
by COPAC only one person was allowed to speak and the community
members said that this is because of an operation being run by one
political party under "Operation Nyararai". She added
that the cancellation of meetings was a clear sign of intimidation
not only for CSO workers but also for the community members.
Bulawayo
- The constitutional outreach teams have started their
work after a week-long break in order to pave way for the opening
of the second session of the Seventh Parliament of Zimbabwe. Sources
in the various areas said that meetings have been scheduled and
most are expected to take place today. It however remained unclear
on when the meetings in urban centres will start with COPAC giving
conflicting dates for the process. Last week one of the co chairpersons
of the committee, Mr Edward Mkhosi said that the meetings may start
as late as the end of August as the outreach teams have to first
complete the surrounding rural areas. He said that meetings are
likely to be held over two days in most urban centres.
Plumtree
- Macingwana community members are anticipating a meeting
with the COPAC teams so that they emphasise on the need for investing
power in the local authorities to spur development. They said that
it has been ten years since they requested that a school be built
near them as the nearest school is approximately 17km away. The
long distance, which students have to walk everyday, has resulted
in low pass rates and a number of dropouts. Community members said
that if a school is built at a close to them, problems such as the
low literacy rate and children having to walk through bushes everyday
could be reduced.
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