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MATSHOLOGWANE, INSIZA–To curb the growing problem of child marriages, human rights lawyers are reaching out to remote populations and turning community members into drivers of change.
By Nhau Mangirazi
A former cabinet minister has called for the ‘reorientation’ of public officials to avail information to citizens as they have right to access information without hindrance.
Speaking during a belated World Press Freedom Day in Chinhoyi Webster Shamu, a former minister of information and Chegutu West Member of Parliament said citizens have right to information.
He was responding after Peter Liwanda, chairman of Chinhoyi Residents Trust asked procedures to be taken if public is denied access to information from council.
Liwanda said, ‘‘Chinhoyi Residents Trust submitted a request to municipality to avail us with information on wetlands in the town. We have been so patient unlike other resident’s organizations that took council to court so that they can get that information. Our appeal now is that as the ministry is making media reforms, let it be spelt that citizens have right to public information. Local authorities are not taking us on right to access
Rule by law or rule of law?
Military and police presence in Harare during protests against former president Robert Mugabe, 18 November 2017. PHOTO Graeme Williams
There appears to be some light at the end of Zimbabwe’s dark constitutional tunnel but only time will tell if the gains made will gather pace
Since its founding as a modern state in 1890, Zimbabwe has had a tumultuous political and constitutional history. This history includes an illegal constitutional order declared by white settlers in 1970 in the context of an equally illegal Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) whose strategic interest was to preserve power in “responsible” white hands and defer black majority rule into the indefinite future.
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