Musukuma this week filed an urgent court application seeking Copac to publish a National Statistical Report on the draft Constitution for people to study it before the start of the conference.
However, in its response, Copac put it through to the presiding judge, Justice Ben Hlatshwayo that the report was available on the Copac website for anyone to have access to it. When this emerged the two parties agreed to register a mutual consent allowing Copac to avail the national report on the website and to print hard copies of the report for distribution to all the Copac provincial administrators.
The National Statistical Report has over 3 000 pages and it would have cost US$500 000 for advertising in the local newspapers.
The order, which allows the conference to proceed as scheduled, comes hot after Copac again successfully blocked a similar bid by another Zanu PF activist Goodson Nguni to stop the process in the Supreme Court.
Speaking after the High Court order, Copac chairperson and MDC national spokesperson, Hon. Douglas Mwonzora applauded the ruling saying; “it is a victory of the people of Zimbabwe’s quest for a democratic dispensation.”
Musukuma’s request for the print of the national report containing 3000 pages in the newspapers is not only a thoughtless attempt but the heist of madness and downright lunacy in Zanu PF rank and file as they desperately sought to subvert the wishes of the people of Zimbabwe.
It is a futile attempt and they are bound to always fail as the momentum of the march to a democratic and free Zimbabwe is so enormous for anyone to even contemplate stopping.
Since the beginning of the constitution making process Zanu PF has been making frantic efforts to jeopardise the process through different machinations which include bussing of people to attend outreach meetings and intimidating MDC supporters from attending same meetings.
Two weeks ago Zanu PF again used State machinery – the police, to confiscate 1 200 copies of the draft Constitution which were meant for delegates who were expected to attend the stakeholders’ conference earmarked for the 2nd of October 2012.
Fortunately the date was pushed forward to 21 October 2012 dealing another blow to Zanu PF’s attempts.
The panic stricken party has not stopped in its efforts as they are not yet fully registered for the conference up to now in a bid to create chaos through late registration at the venue.
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