There was drama at the Civic Society Leaders’ indaba on the constitution when a prominent ZANU PF businessman, Danny Musukuma, was barred entry and denied registration for the All Stakeholders Conference whose preparations began at the luxurious Pandhari lodge meeting in Harare.
Musukuma who three days ago Wednesday sought an emergency interdict from the High Court to bar the holding of the conference demanding the release of the National Statistical Report, was told:
“haudiwe pano mudhara – you are not needed here,” according to witnesses of the incident at the Pandhari Lodge.
The drama was enhanced as Musukuma arrived strolling confidently just before it was revealed and confirmed that he had been sent by his ZANU PF party.
COPAC chair Paul Mangwana confirmed the turning away of Musukuma and that his party ZANU PF was behind the businessman’s stint.
“Yes I can certainly confirm Mr Musukuma arrived for accreditation after having been forwarded by the Harare province of my party. He felt that since he is suing Copac and fighting against the conference he can have his cake and eat it. I advised him to seek an order from the High Court because Copac could not accredit him to the same process he is fighting.
“The only logical thing was to stop and let him have his day in court. His court case is ill-conceived, mischievous and without merit,” said Mangwana.
“If every Tom, Dick and Harry is allowed to sue Copac, we are allowing Copac to have 13 million suits. We as managers of the process will not be disturbed by such mischief to distract us and we have assigned our lawyers (Dzimba, Jaravaza and Partners) to look into the matter as we move to the conference.”
- Ibbo Mandaza speaking at the indaba
Mangwana who belongs to President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party also revealed that there had been political interference by some organisations.
“The problem we realised in the 1st ASC is that some civil society organisations were seemingly belonging to particular political parties. This is why we approached political parties to assist in identifying civil society across the political board. There is perception that we have not adhered to the 70-30 [representation stipulation] of which we did because 571 seats are to be civil society delegates and about 200 are political parties. We never promised to take all 300 organisations submitted, when the list was recieved from NANGO and Crisis we realised that 60 of these were already acreditted under other means of engagement. We have increased civil society seats from 571 to 671. For every 2 delegates submitted by NANGO and CRISIS only one will be acreditted,” he said.
The indaba was held between Thursday and Friday 18th- 19th October 2012 and carried the theme “Our Country, our input, our constitution.” It was convened to provide civil service organisations with a platform for analysis of the COPAC draft constitution against CSOs minimum demands on process and content; to facilitate CSOs consensus building on the COPAC draft constitution, and too identify key issues, strategies and areas of engagement with COPAC and the 2nd All Stakeholders Conference.
Several key community leaders spoke at the indaba who include among others, ROHR Zimbabwe chair Grace Mupfurutsa, and former Mavambo Kusile Dawn founding member Ibbo Mandaza. (ZIMBABWE, ZimEye)
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why did they chase away the pfs person
“Haudiwe pano mdhara” kikikikiki.Haaa.Zanoid gate crasher.Vakarigona wena.
VaMangwana maratidza kuti ü à true zimbabwean, gamba remamwe magamba who is there to save the pple’s will.lmbwa yakaruma bondo hayihukure.we are zimbabwean hatidi kuita sedikita rembwa rinoperera mumvere.Tichakunamatirai.(PLI HIDE MY ID )
Some people are natural born clowns.
Mutengesi mutengesi. Ko tozvitemesa musoro nei, zvinhi zviripachena. Pamberi ne Zanu! Eh!
Paul Mangwana has proved himself to be a mature citizen & politician. He has refused to chant party slogans where its not necessary. He has refused to dance to unpopular “kongonya” and instead has tried to follow the will of the people. They have tried to arm twist him like what this embarrassed businessman did but he is immovable. The voice of the povo (po’vo-ice) shall stand and defy the odd.
Tsandog, you think that barking that other parties will never rule Zim will change the fact that your party has gone to the dogs, literally? Better start planning for life after death of
Zanu Pf mupfanha…
Paul Mangwana will go the Border Gezi, and Elliot Manyika gezi way. This guy is too civilised for ZANU PF. Seems he is fighting his own party and believe me ZANU wont tolerate that for long> PAMBERI NEMDC AND ALUTA CONTINUA MACHINJA COMRADES! Zanu to the dust bins. Welshman kumadhodha bin too!
Corrupt and those who looted our resources think that a better constitution and any change of gvt can leave them poorer. So they lable others puppets. Every party is either apuppet of the east or west. Turkshops at mbare msika are owned by foreigners. So what is the defination of SMEs. U want to swallow every opportunity. Mobutu, kabila, iddi amini, abacha,gadafi were stronger but were are they now the will of truth always win
Eh! Tsano kana huriwo CIO munoita basa risina njere wena. Unintelligent work when the world is full economic intelligence departments imi renyu ndere kunyomba neku tyisidzira vamwe, local terrorists moti murikuita basa mukoma. I bet you hate yourself.
Tsano wavakatyisidzira vanofanira kunge vakarowa makuva manje. You can not terrorise everyone for life. You should also stop thinking you are the only one who owns zimbabwe. If you are a true zimbabwean stop that foul language. You are as hopeless as anything this why you spend time exhibiting disgraceful vile.
Vana Greydhoti get a life. Yo puppet party will never rule Zim as lon as l am alive. Its time to call a spade a spade. Muri vatengesi hatikudeyi muno munyika yeropa.
For you information, Chandog Kupusa, it one of your Zanu PF cadres, Paul Mangwana who felt the corrupt Zanu PF businessman was not wanted, because he had been sent by your party to destabilize the process. Civic society should indeed be apolitical, which is why political interference from the likes of Musukumana should be eliminated. That goes for the rest of the maggots as well
Time after time Zanu pf is now known to disrupt national events. Is this the inspiration to Africa meant by malema? If so, this tarnishes the image of Africa were lawlessness would beame a norm.
What is so civil about this gathering because civil society is suppose to be apolitical but given the few names mentioned above it is so apparent that all these guys came from different political backgrounds and decided to conveniently call themselves civic society and given the level of political polarization in Zimbabwe, there are no neutral persons in the country and for that reason these guys were not qualified to stop Cde Musukuma from attending the meeting.