According to today’s statement by the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition:

A meeting convened by COPAC yesterday at Parliament ended without substantive agreements on key issues such as coming up with a concrete schedule of activities. The meeting was characterised by a lot of disagreements which resulted in many of those who attended walking out of the meeting. After the meeting, the select committee was scheduled to hold a press conference but due to disagreements among the delegates, the press conference was cancelled.

According to a COPAC official, the disagreements stem from the accreditation of teams and transport arrangements which the select committee is failing to solve amicably. This in turn has pushed further the deployment of outreach teams to Monday 21 June, with the public consultation phase commencing on Wednesday 23 June according to a reliable source.

Patricia McFadden might reckon Zimbabwe’s Constitution making process is less about the substance of the document it delivers, and more about its potential as an opportunity to heal the fractures of our past. But it can be neither substantively or symbolically useful if it isn’t treated seriously, and doesn’t get organised and underway.

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