Addressing a report back meeting in Masvingo on Thursday, Mwonzora said the draft document would be availed in several languages, adding that it would also be written in simplified English for people to understand it.
“We have set aside $2 million for publicity and civic education”, said Mwonzora. “We are going to write the draft in several languages spoken in the country to ensure that everyone understands it.”
Mwonzora said COPAC would soon meet to consider submissions made by different thematic committees during the Second All-Stakeholders’ Conference that ended on Tuesday. He said the phase to consider conference feedback would be completed soon.
“I have briefly gone through the submissions made at the Second All-Stakeholders’ Conference and I have discovered that we are not going to take much time on this stage,” Mwonzora
Zanu (PF) COPAC Co- chairperson, Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana, said the select committee would the hold constitutional referendum before 15 January next year.
COPAC is currently holding report back meetings following the holding of the stakeholders’ conference.
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This is a nightmare! We have wasted three and half years and US$75 million to boot writing a new constitution that still does not address the most important issue of our generation: the need for free and fair elections.
Two months ago 50 000 students were barred from writing their exams because government failed to pay their fees. The same government that paid the ministry of Higher Education a mere US$1 million because it is broke but has a further US$2 million to pour into this utterly pointless COPAC exercise.