Saturday, March 13 2010
Posted by ZDN on March 9, 2010
This week on Rules for our Rulers Lance Guma speaks to Emmanuel Gasa an activist who is living with AIDS and who started the ‘AIDS and Arts Foundation’. Not only does the organization campaign for the rights of people affected by the disease but they also use the arts to articulate their concerns. Gasa tells Lance what they want to see in a new constitution for Zimbabwe, and access to anti ret...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on February 23, 2010
Last week it was reported that the constitution making process had stalled over disagreements between the government and donors bankrolling the process through the United Nations Development Programme. This week on, Lance seeks to get more information on the latest crisis and speaks to Jessie Majome, the Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs, who is also the Chairperson on the Sub Committee...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on February 16, 2010
With the country’s political parties having reached a deadlock in the talks the focus has now moved to the holding of elections in 2011. This week on Rules for our Rulers Lance Guma asks whether a new constitution will be able to guarantee free and fair elections in Zimbabwe. He speaks to Munjodzi Mutandiri from the National Constitutional Assembly chapter in South Africa who says ZANU-PF wants ...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on February 9, 2010
This week on Rules for our Rulers Lance Guma speaks to the Director of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition McDonald Lewanika. The coalition put out a statement last week in which they made a number of recommendations for the constitution making process. Lewanika says all bases and militia groups deployed in the countryside to influence people should be disbanded, civil society should be allowed a gre...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on February 2, 2010
Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs Jessie Majome is Lance's guest on Rules for our Rulers. They discuss the efforts being made to craft a new constitution and how the process is being hampered by negative and partisan media coverage from the state media. [podcast]http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr010210.mp3[/podcast] Rules for our Rulers [26:18m]: Download...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on January 26, 2010
This week on Rules for our Rulers Lance Guma speaks to Constitutional Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga, about reports claiming the constitutional outreach programme had been ‘suspended’ over bickering between the political parties. Does he think ZANU-PF is simply trying to scuttle the process by causing endless delays? [podcast]http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr250110.mp3[/podc...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on January 19, 2010
Lance Guma speaks to the co-chairman of the Constitutional Parliamentary Committee, Douglas Mwonzora, about the reasons for delaying the deployment of outreach teams countrywide. He tells the programme they needed to carry out an audit after several people tried to be fraudulently accredited onto the outreach list. [podcast]http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr180110.mp3[/podcast] ...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on January 12, 2010
The National Constitutional Assembly got the New Year running by issuing an ultimatum to government to abandon its ‘defective’ constitutional process or face a campaign of rejection of any draft it produces. Lance speaks to NCA spokesman Madock Chivasa and asks him why they are so opposed to the current process. [podcast]http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr040110.mp3[/podcast] ...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on December 30, 2009
Lance presents Rules for our Rulers which reviews the 2009 constitutional process. He is joined by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition Director Macdonald Lewanika and group Information Officer Nixon Nyikadzino. The programme looks at the failure to meet deadlines, lack of funding for the process, and other disruptions. They debate whether the ‘No’ vote campaign by the National Constitutional Assembly...
Continue ReadingPosted by ZDN on December 22, 2009
Lance talks to Mike Sambo from the Democratic United Front, what have in the past organized demonstrations against ‘constitutional chicanery’. [podcast]http://www.zimbabwedemocracynow.com/podcasts/rfr211209.mp3[/podcast] Rules for our Rulers [14:32m]: Download...
Continue Reading
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| By N2H | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur Mutambara Ben Freeth CFU Chiadzwa Cholera CIO Constitution corruption diamonds Diaspora Emmerson Mnangagwa George Charamba Gideon Gono GPA Grace Mugabe Human Rights hyperinflation IMF Jacob Zuma Johannes Tomana Jonathan Moyo Kariba Draft Kimberley Process Lance Guma Marange MDC Morgan Tsvangirai Obert Mpofu Pascal Gwezere Patrick Chinamasa Peter Hitschmann Robert Mugabe Roy Bennett SADC SADC Tribunal Saviour Kasukuwere South Africa Tafataona Mahoso Tendai Biti torture violence Youth militia Zanu-PF ZCTU Zimbabwe
WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck and Luke Morton requires Flash Player 9 or better.
