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commission interview results annulled?
MISA-Zimbabwe
August 04, 2009
http://www.misazim.co.zw/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=593&Itemid=1
Parliament has reportedly
set aside results of interviews conducted with potential candidates
for eventual appointment to the statutory Zimbabwe Media Commission
(ZMC) in a shock development that could seriously undermine the
principle of separation of powers between the executive, legislature
and judiciary.
According to the state-controlled
national daily The Herald of 4 August 2009 the process hit a snag
after Zanu PF officials led by Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana allegedly
"realised" that the interviews were allegedly fraudulent
and biased against candidates perceived as sympathisers of Zanu
PF.
It is reported that 'parties'
to the agreement then resolved that all the names of the 27 candidates
interviewed be forwarded to the President without ranking them.
In terms of Constitutional Amendment No 19 the envisaged Commission
shall consist of a chairperson and eight other members appointed
by the President from a list of not fewer than twelve nominees submitted
by the Committee on Standing Rules and Orders.
It is on the basis of
that constitutional provision that the interviews were conducted
on 3 August 20079 by the Standing Rules and Orders Committee (SROC).
To act otherwise by submitting the list of candidates wholesale
to the President would be a serious breach and abdication of responsibility
on the part of parliament pertaining to a process that is protected
by a constitutional provision.
Also in contention, and
of which the public is also owed an explanation, relates to how
SROC also bundled the ZMC interviews with those for BAZ when the
advertisements placed for applications to be submitted for interviews
by the Committee were specifically for the ZMC and made no mention
of the possibilities of those so short listed being also considered
and short listed for BAZ appointments.
Background
A five-member interviewing
panel comprising members of SROC on 3 August 2009 interviewed a
total of 27 potential candidates who will be short listed for appointment
to the ZMC and the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ). A four-member
panel of experts was also in place to determine the final list of
candidates that will be short listed for onward appointment by the
President.
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