The COPAC gathering on the draft governance charter is set to begin on Sunday in Harare and ends on Tuesday. The three day conference will be attended by at least 1 101 delegates, among them 246 political party representatives, 284 MPs and 571 civil society groups representatives.
Local and foreign observers, including journalists, will be accredited on Friday. Every diplomatic Embassy in Harare has also been invited to send officials to observe the proceedings. The exercise has reportedly been declared a success following the smoothing accreditation of delegates at 10 centres designated throughout the country.
Only in Mutare were there minor problems when the printing machine for the ID cards broke down. It was quickly fixed and the accreditation exercise was completed without further hitches.
Our correspondent Simon Muchemwa told us reports that Mudede will attend the conference as a ZANU PF delegate did not surprise the MDC formations.
He said Douglas Mwonzora, the MDC-T spokesman and COPAC co-chairman, told him they were happy Mudede had finally come out of the closet to declare his allegiance to the former ruling party.
Recently Mudede claimed the much criticized voters roll was perfect, despite numerous checks proving otherwise. For example as of 1st October 2012 there were 366,550 new voters who had not appeared on any previous roll. 16,033 of these voters were over the age of 70 while 1,488 of them were over 100. Over 200 of the new registered voters were small children and dozens more were listed from the same house, bearing the same date of birth. – SW Radio Africa
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