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Everyone supporting Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 should remember that the process is already tainted by these actions of busing people, as happened in Bulawayo. The consultation for Bulawayo was meant for residents of Bulawayo, not for imported crowds designed to manufacture consent. Zimbabwe will remain trapped in a... show more

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The violence against Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Doug Coltart today at the parliamentary hearings for Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 at the Harare City Sports Centre is disgraceful. The racist abuse directed at him by fellow Zimbabweans is equally shameful, exposing a dangerous erosion of tolerance, respect for the rule of law, and basic democratic values. Whatever happens with Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3, it is already tainted by these actions of ZANUPF hooligans, thugs, and despicable individuals. You cannot take parliamentary hearings to the people and then assault them for airing their views, for opposing what you are saying, or for holding alternative opinions. That is not consultation, it is intimidation, and it completely undermines the legitimacy of the entire process. Beating up a fellow Zimbabwean who is a lawyer, stealing his phone, and preventing him from speaking is the very worst conduct in any parliamentary hearing process, including this Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3. Those behind these actions should be deeply ashamed, because they are not only undermining the process, they are embarrassing the country and eroding respect for the rule of law.

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Most of the beautiful white people who were born in Bulawayo Zimbabwe can speak Ndebele language fluently except for Shona people who think that they are special

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I have just listened to this video by the new Bulawayo Mayor, David Coltart, I like what I heard. Bulawayo has a real chance for turning around with this mindset of zero tolerance to corruption, craft competence and unity. He must be supported by the Bulawayo community, all of it! Through his previous record as a GNU minister, he will be able to attract international support for Bulawayo. David will not mourn about ZANUPF, he is a good example of a person who will try until stopped, he did that as a GNU minister. You are in for good times Bulawayo, where he is frustrated, the citizens must stand with their mayor. I like his broad based message of working with everyone and not treating his work in partisan ways.

I have just listened to this video by the new Bulawayo Mayor, David Coltart, I like what I heard. Bulawayo has a real chance for turning around with this mindset of zero tolerance to corruption, craft competence and unity. He must be supported by the Bulawayo community, all of it! Through his previous record as a GNU minister, he will be able to attract international support for Bulawayo. David will not mourn about ZANUPF, he is a good example of a person who will try until stopped, he did that as a GNU minister. You are in for good times Bulawayo, where he is frustrated, the citizens must stand with their mayor. I like his broad based message of working with everyone and not treating his work in partisan ways.

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#ZimElection2023 DAVID COLTART: BORN 66 YEARS AGO IN BULAWAYO, PRACTICED LAW IN BULAWAYO FOR 40 YEARS, STILL CAN’T SPEAK SINDEBELE, CALLS THE CITY OF KINGS & QUEENS ‘BHULUWEYO” YET CHAMISA WANTS TO IMPOSE HIM AS MAYOR David Coltart has been promised Bulawayo’s Mayoral position by the leader of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Nelson Chamisa, reports New Zimbabwe.Com: The promise is based on the wish that Chamisa’s CCC will win most of Bulawayo’s 29 council seats and that the elected councillors will obey Chamisa’s orders in the vote for mayor. Although Coltart came a distant number last, after he was heavily defeated in the CCC ‘community caucus’ candidate selection for Ward 4 in Bulawayo, Chamisa imposed him as the winner, ahead of the real winnera, as Harare’s choice for Bulawayo mayor. Chamisa used CCC’s Bulawayo rally two days ago on Sunday to make public his handpicking of Coltart as his Bulawayo mayoral choice. This is raising eyebrows not least because it's the Bulawayo community - not Chamisa or his Harare cohort - which must choose its Mayor through its elected councillors. Besides, why is Chamisa bent on singling out Bulawayo, and imposing a mayor there? Unconcerned that this is irreparrably damaging his claims to be a democrat, and speaking as if he thinks he would be an Executive Mayor, Coltart thundered at the Sunday rally: “I have been a lawyer in this city for 40 years. I want to use my 40 years experience as a lawyer to review all the contracts in Bhuluweyo, to see whether they are in the interests of the citizens of Bhuluweyo, if we find the contracts are not in the interests of Bhuluweyo...,” to Chamisa's amusement. It is outrageous for Coltart to think he can be the mayor of a local community whose language he does not speak, despite having been born there 66 years ago and having worked there as a lawyer for 40 years. The best he can do is to pronounce 'Bulawayo' as 'Bhuluweyo', just like the Rhodies pronounced it 43 years ago. Hayikhona!

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#NothaboAndDaughtersMurderCase The bodies of Nothabo Zandile Khumalo and her daughters Natalie and Nala murdered a month ago allegedly by her husband Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma failed to arrive in Zimbabwe today - again - after missing a connecting flight in Addis Ababa to Bulawayo from London. They were initially scheduled to arrive in their home town of Bulawayo yesterday afternoon for burial on Monday or Tuesday. The Ethiopian Airlines flight that was carrying the bodies failed to land at Bole International Airport yesterday due to bad weather and had to divert to neighbouring Djibouti. By the time it arrived in Ethiopia from Djibouti, the connecting flight to Bulawayo from Bole International Airport had left. Ethiopian Airlines flies from Addis Ababa to Bulawayo via Ndola in Zambia, taking about six hours and 35 minutes. The route goes from Bole International Airport to Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport in Zambia. The continuation flight from Ndola to Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo takes one hour and 40 minutes.

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In the second matter before the Constitutional Court, filed by former opposition Member of Parliament Prince Dubeko Sibanda, the argument was that Parliament could not lawfully debate Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 because the bill itself is unconstitutional. The Constitutional Court ruled that the application was not yet ripe for determination, meaning that the parliamentary process must first run its course before the applicant can return to court to challenge the outcome. Once again, many lawyers have described the Court’s approach as an example of constitutional avoidance. In their view, the Court is declining to engage with the substantive constitutional questions now and is instead postponing their determination. However, the issues will not disappear. Even if the matter proceeds through the High Court first, it is almost inevitable that it will eventually return to the Constitutional Court on appeal for a final determination on the merits. In short, the Constitutional Court has not resolved the constitutional questions surrounding CAB 3; it has merely deferred them.

Hopewell Chin’ono

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