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New Constitution-making process - Index of articles
Constitutional reform process
Munyaradzi
Bwanya
July 15, 2009
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Essentially
the GPA
which forms a temporary part of our current constitution provides
for two things with regard to constitution making.
- A process
of constitutional reform led by a select Committee chosen by political
parties from among their parliamentary representatives
- The
Kariba draft as the reference point of the entire process.
Both these positions
are inherently contradictory to the much desired "people driven
constitution" and therefore the objections by the CSO fraternity
and all other right minded Zimbabweans to the government led process.
Basically when the few leaders of the process are chosen by their
individual political parties along partisan lines and a document
crafted by an even smaller number of men is to be the basis of the
will of the people, then the 4000 or 5000 people chosen for the
process have their hands tied and cannot drive the process. As evidenced
by the split in the nation today, the Article 6 position is as divisive
as the June 27 sham election and its result. One group, presumably
the wiser has condemned the process and refuses to partake in its
flaws arguing that it is a decorative process by the politicians
to unilaterally draft their desired constitution on the part of
the MDC and to impose the Kariba draft on the part of ZANU PF. The
second group is a more compromising one which deems it more necessary
to participate in the process despite its doomed fate; they seek
to get out of it the best they can for themselves as individuals
and for their constituencies, effectively surrendering their collective
true wills to governmental caprices. A few questions must be answered
by every Zimbabwean, objectively and truthfully without the common
inclination to support anything which the popular leader of the
day (Hon Tsvangirai) endorses.
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