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Original Post Date: 2010-09-21 Time: 10:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
Harare – The ugly face of violence resurfaced in Harare when several Constitutional Select Committee outreach meetings were disrupted over the weekend.
We thought Zimbabwe had put this tendency to resolve differences through violence behind it and was making progress in its national healing and reconciliation programme.
We condemn the violence and call upon all the political parties to do so with sincerity.
Apportioning blame does not help at all when it is so clear that the political leadership has not done enough to educate its followers on the need to refrain from violence.
At the top, the leaders have found each other and can disagree without pushing matters to the extreme. There has been a genuine effort to treat each other with respect, but the same cannot be said of the lower ranks.
What is causing tempers to flare up? And why is it that the political parties cannot keep their followers under control?
We had expected the Harare outreach programmes to go on smoothly since people are more informed about constitutional issues than those in rural areas. But it appears the same dogmatic approach to issues that was witnessed in the rural areas has resurfaced in Harare.
It appears political parties have mobilised their people to stand steadfastly on certain key issues and that is causing tension.
But if the parties could agree on the issues that should be in the constitution as reflected in the Kariba Draft, we find it strange that there should now be serious differences. We doubt if there are major differences.
The violence has to do with parties trying to protect their political space in Harare. Reports yesterday indicated that there was an attempt by MDC-T to boycott the outreach meetings, itself a confirmation that they feel their political turf in Harare has been invaded and dominated by Zanu-PF.
So the whole thing has to do with the ambitions of the political parties and not what the people have to say. The voices of ordinary people and the various interest groups have been completely drowned as all that is coming through are well-rehearsed party positions.
The constitution would be richer if these groups also found room to air their views, which may or may not agree with those held by the main political parties.
Copac has not helped matters by failing to rise to the standard expected of such an important process. There is still a lot of disorganisation, which is causing unnecessary tension.
The Copac secretariat needs to improve the deployment of their teams and not keep people waiting for long hours.
The process has drawn negative publicity because of the continued failure by Copac to pay service providers, drivers and rapporteurs, a problem that emanates directly from the inadequate funding of the whole constitution-making process.
Overall, the outreach programmes have gone on relatively well with most of Zimbabwe now covered.
We are still confident that the views that have been gathered thus far are sufficient to come up with what can be accepted as a people-driven constitution. Harare should therefore not be allowed to spoil the work that has been done so far.
The weekend incidents should serve as a lesson to the organisers of the meetings to ensure that there is enough police presence and that all the teams arrive on time and do their work as professionally as they possibly can.
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Published by the government of Zimbabwe
Original date published: 21 September 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201009210153.html?viewall=1