Information, Communication, Technology Minister Nelson Chamisa, the National Organising Secretary for the MDC-T, said the haggling over a draft constitution was just a ZANU PF ‘decoy’ designed to divert attention from the need to reform the voters roll, media landscape and the security sector.
“A constitution alone has never been an instrument for the holding of free and fair elections,” Chamisa said. He cited the staffing of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Secretariat) with partisan members from the army and state security agencies, as an example of a crucial issue going under the radar.
“We must be careful that we are not chasing after a ZANU PF kite. ZANU PF are in the habit of creating false and pseudo-imaginations of problems when in fact we must be focused on fundamental reforms to the issue of free and fair elections.
“We have to address the issue of the ZEC, the technical composition of ZEC, to speak to the issues of the media and media reforms. We must address the voters roll, issues of delimitation, we must go to the software issues of elections, election management and the security of the voter,” Chamisa told SW Radio Africa.
Meanwhile it’s reported all three parties in the coalition government have agreed to have members of a SADC technical team help the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (JOMIC), a year after the team was appointed. The agreement was secured by President Jacob Zuma's facilitation team in Harare last week.
Its reported disagreements over the teams ‘terms of reference’ held up its deployment. Ambassador David Katye from Tanzania and Mrs Colly Muunyu, a diplomat from Zambia, are the members of the team. South Africa were meant to supply a third member, but opted not to. SW Radio Africa
Post published in: News